{"57357":{"#nid":"57357","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sy Goodman speaks at the Marconi Society Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Seymour (Sy) Goodman delivered the lecture \u0022New Light for the Dark Continent: the Internet, Mobile Telephony and Security in Africa\u0022 at the Symposium of the Marconi Society, Columbia University, New York, April 16, 2009.  Professor Goodman addressed the issue of cell phones thriving in Africa and the potential security concerns.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA growing reliance in Africa on cell phones may come at a cost because African nations generally have poor cyber security in place, says Seymour Goodman, a professor of computing and international affairs and co-director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe African continent may not be the first place people think of when technology is involved, but many of the countries there have come to depend on mobile phones as their primary means of communication (even more so than landline telephones or computers), and this dependence will only grow in the near future. This reliance on handheld gadgets may come at a cost though, given that they generally have poor cyber security in place, says Seymour Goodman, a Georgia Institute of Technology international affairs and computing professor and co-director of the school\u0027s Information Security Center.  Cell phones have flourished in Africa because many of the countries there have few landlines, and computers are still expensive, Goodman said at a Marconi Society symposium here yesterday. He noted that about 300 million of the world\u0027s nearly 3.5 billion cell phones are in Africa (which has a population of roughly one billion). \u0022The people of Africa will appreciate that a $300 iPhone will do a lot more for their family than a $100 laptop,\u0022 he added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESource: Scientific American\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/news\/docs\/SA-Apr2009.pdf\u0027\u003EFull Article from Scientific American\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Cell phones will thrive in Africa, but security will be a problem"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Professor Seymour (Sy) Goodman delivered the lecture \u0022New Light for the Dark Continent: the Internet, Mobile Telephony and Security in Africa\u0022 at the Symposium of the Marconi Society, Columbia University, New York, April 16, 2009.  Professor Goodman addressed the issue of cell phones thriving in Africa and the potential security concerns.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sy Goodman addresses issues with Cell Phone Technology in Africa"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2009-04-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:46","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57358":{"id":"57358","type":"image","title":"Sy Goodman","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894342","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:02","alt":"Sy Goodman","file":{"fid":"190595","name":"tfo30122.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfo30122.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfo30122.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7319,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tfo30122.jpg?itok=72BVwF9N"}}},"media_ids":["57358"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"861","name":"Africa"},{"id":"862","name":"Cell Phones"},{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"167165","name":"Seymour Goodman"},{"id":"167857","name":"Sy Goodman"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Levin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECISTP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=al101\u0022\u003EContact Angela Levin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3199\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Angela.Levin@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}