By: Dr. Nikhil Agarwal
Email: nikhil.jibc(at) gmail.com

Gurus comes in all sizes specially religious and management gurus. You must be wondering why I say so. My 6-month-old son Krishivâ is teaching me management now days. I am trying to understand complexities of management theories from acts of toddler. I would call it evolution.

During the past few weeks, I am working closely with Dr. Jovan Kurbalija of Diplo Foundation on Internet Governance [IG] issues and attending a programme on Internet Governance Capacity Building (IGCB). WSIS Geneva [2003] and Tunis [2005] have given new dimensions to the IG negotiations and extend a multi-stakeholder approach towards the whole subject. Many of our readers must have participated in the main conferences and related deliberations elsewhere. In our next issue, we would be happy to publish the experiences of our readers and authors on this very important matter. Please submit your papers by end July, 2006.

Security and Privacy issues worldwide are generating more attention then ever. With growing penetration of technology in our daily lives, it is becoming apparent that companies & consumers have to collaborate to win this war. Every quarter JIBC receives 20% of our submission on security related or privacy issues. In the present issue, Ankur Gupta has highlighted the need of data protection in consumer e-banking. Lior Shamir of Michigan Tech has discussed a simple yet hazardous method used by hackers for stealing user information. Advocate Rahul Goel, in his article, has analyzed the provisions related to privacy in proposed amendments to the Indian Information Technology Act 2000. In an another article related to security P. Yogesh has suggested alternate architecture for DNS to foil DoS attacks.

In last issue we argued that the next big marketplace would be Africa. Articles from Achraf Ayadi and Abel Ezeoha has further consolidated our belief. Achraf has investigated technological and organizational preconditions to develop Internet Banking services in Tunisian Banking sector. Abel in the second part of his paper has given success prescription for regulating Internet banking in Nigeria. His paper is important read for those who wish to have eagle view of African market.

Teuta Cata of Northern Kentucky University has introduced the concept of Silent CRM (s-CRM), an application of RFID technology to support customer needs. Jose Gonzalez has investigated Market orientation framework model and expanded it in context of Web Hosting and Internet Service Provider companies. Jordan Shropshire of Mississippi State University has provided a good background paper for evaluation of performance metrics of hosted software databases.

We are pleased to invite our new member on the board of JIBC, Dr. Joshua Fogel, A/ Professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Following the advise of Dr. Fogel and persistent efforts of Nahum Goldmann, JIBC is now listed in Directory of Open Access Journal [DOAJ]. Please click here to find the listing. Another important announcement is regarding partnership of JIBC in various conferences/seminars. We would be pleased to participate and publish the proceedings of conferences related to our themes. Such requests can be made to myself or Nahum Goldmann, publisher of JIBC.

Collectively lets spread knowledge across all continents and beyond.

Dr. Nikhil Agarwal