Before there was the digital divide there was the analog divide - and universal service was the attempt to close that analog divide. Universal service is becoming ever more complex in terms of regulatory design as it becomes the digital divide. In order to evaluate the promise of the next...

Net Trust is a system that embeds social context in web-based trust decisions by combining individual histories, social networks, and explicit ratings. The social context embedded in Net Trust allows an individual to select their own trusted sources of information and rate particular sites as...

Net Trust is a system that embeds social context in web-based trust decisions by combining individual histories, social networks, and explicit ratings. The social context embedded in Net Trust allows an individual to select their own trusted sources of information and rate particular sites as...

The utility of social networks is contingent on information sharing, which constrains privacy. Engaging in online social networks is seen to indicate that the participants either do not care about privacy, do not understand the risks of information sharing, or find privacy controls to be...