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SUMMARY:Is Information Security a Global Public Good/ - Speaker to be conf
 irmed
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CONTACT:Pythagoras Petratos
DESCRIPTION:It has been supported that knowledge\, Peace\, Security and De
 fense have the characteristics of Global Public Goods. In this essay we at
 tempt to assess if a combined form of these terms\, namely information sec
 urity is a global public good. We show that there are numerous deviations 
 from Information security as a global public good. An important determinan
 t is private ownership. We tend to support that information security can b
 e seen rather as an externality and therefore corrected according to Coase
  Theorem by property rights and laissez faire. On the other hand Samuelson
  suggests that in the case of pure public goods competitive markets will n
 ot work optimally. Therefore the state should provide them. This essay has
  significant policy implication. Firstly\, it notices that goods presentin
 g features close to public good as Open Source Software can be effectively
  privately provided. Secondly it ascertains that there is a role of the st
 ate and international organizations\, and this is not the provision but ra
 ther the correction of market failures with appropriate regulation encoura
 ging free enterprise and providing economic incentives to enhance informat
 ion security.  
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