Transcript Amal El Homosany

Contamination of
Information Ecosystems
By: Amal Al Homosany
What’s an info ecosystem?
• A metaphor that compares info systems and their
behaviors to organic ecosystems.
• Info ecosystems include:
• Actors
• Inhabitants
• Environment
• Main characteristics of an info ecosystem are:
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Stability
Dynamic Interactions
Scalability
Intelligence
Natural Selection of actors
SME’s as an Info Ecosystem
Ecosystem
Digital SME Environment
Inhabitants
Inhabitants
Interactions
Actors
Inhabitants
Products
Services
Interactions
Actors
Customers
Inhabitants
Services
Suppliers
Product
Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs)
• EU goals of turning towards a knowledgebased economy.
• Digitalization of business processes.
• 20 million SMEs in the EU countries.
• Benefits of ICT for SMEs include:
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New markets
Novel products
Skillful Value chain management
Customer Relationship Management
Then…
Why isn’t there pervasive use of
technology among SMEs?
• Focusing on core business operations
• IT-resistance
• Business culture
• Cost-effectiveness
• Security
• Confidentiality
• Integrity
• Corporate privacy
Malware…
A threat to security
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Two main categories of malware:
1. Distributed solely for a destructive purpose
– Poses threats to stability and capacity of a system.
– E.g. Viruses, worms, Trojans
2. Commercially driven malware
– Spam messages, adware, spyware, etc.
An Info Ecosystem Approach
• Actors:
• Machiavellian and Intelligent
Selfish
Competitors
Evolution
• E.g. Customers and Suppliers
• Trustworthy vs. Malicious intents
An Info ecosystem Approach
(Cont’d)
• Interactions
1. Arms race – escalation of competition
• Evolutionary process of action and reaction.
• Self-adjusting quality set to improve
competitors’ skills.
2.Tragedy of Commons – exploitation of
accessible resources
• Common resources are misused by selfish
actors.
• Costs are spread across all the participants.
Will definitely miss you all…..
An Info ecosystem Approach
(Cont’d)
• Red Queen Hypothesis
“It takes all the running you can do to keep in
– Evolution
the same place…”
Survival
• Consequences
• Settled Conflicts – actors find a suboptimal
solution
• Chaotic Breakdown – competitors are outrun
ending an arms race or tragedy of commons
situation.
An Info Ecosystems Model
Machiavellian
Actors
Interactions
Consequences
(Red Queen Hypothesis)
Settled
Conflicts
Arms Race
Human or
Digital
Chaotic
Breakdown
Tragedy of the
Commons
Legislative
Solutions
Will miss you all………….