Top-bottom or bottom-top? --- It is interesting to wonder whether the reach out activities to raise awareness on the importance of national frameworks for cybersecurity should come from the government to the society or from the society to the government. From looking what happens currently in key countries developing internet, it seems that US and EU countries have been comfortable with the development coming from the private sector, with the governments catching up, while countries like China or Russia have a more strategic (in classical sense) approach, whit governments marking the pace and the direction and society following. I suppose, both styles have developed so, because of the history of development of internet (coming mainly from US) and some traces of Cold War hereditary mistrust among the key players. Countries with not very strong or authoritarian governments would probably follow the style of US and Europe, I suppose…

Source author: Eduardo Ruiz Mazon eruizm@sre.gob.mx