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The purpose of this paper is to show that the full potential of the internet has not yet been realised. One of the key reasons for this is users' declining trust in the internet. Over the past two decades, the internet has transformed many aspects of modern life. With an estimated four million users worldwide at the end of 2006, the use of the internet continues to grow. Building trust and confidence is one of the main enablers for the future growth and use of the internet. The paper aims to review some of the reasons behind the declining trust, the changing nature of cyber‐threats, and aims to look at cybersecurity in the context of developing countries and the specific problems these countries are facing when dealing with growing number of cyber‐threats.

This contribution gives an overview of some of the evolving cyber‐threats and their potential impact in order to determine whether the growth of the information society is really at risk. It further considers what the different stakeholders can do to build a safer and more secure information society. The paper poses questions, outlines possible options for a way forward and based on this gives the readers a better understanding of the issues and challenges involved in building confidence and security in the use of ICTs. The paper proposes a framework with increased co‐operation, collaboration, and information sharing, to connect the individual cybersecurity communities and single initiatives, in order to allow stakeholders to build together a roadmap for cybersecurity.

During the discussions leading up to and during the two phases of the World Summit on the information society, country representative participants re‐affirmed their commitment to deal effectively with the significant and growing problems posed by spam and other cyber‐threats. As no single country or entity can alone create trust, confidence and security in the use of ICTs, it is clear that increased international action is needed to address the issues involved.

This paper tries to provide readers with a simple overview of the state of cybersecurity, and with a framework for further considering how new technologies and the growing use of the internet will impact upon stakeholders' trust in the use of ICTs.

Along with increasing dependency on ICTs, new threats to network and information security have emerged. These include growing misuse of electronic networks for criminal purposes or for objectives that can furthermore adversely affect the integrity of critical infrastructures within states. This paper puts forward some concrete suggestions on how countries could look at the issues related to cybersecurity.

The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of online security.

Discusses the problem of breaches in online information sharing and security.

There are many issues to be considered in addressing the matter of online information security that is so important for the future stability of the online world.

Provides a discussion on policy formulation at international and national level, to trust building as a key to online security, to specific technical processes that might help thwart breaches of this security.

This paper describes the development of a digital role play game (RPG) designed to help construction apprentices to better communicate with their supervisors about issues with the potential to impact on their physical and psychological health and safety.

A participatory approach was adopted to utilise the knowledge and insights of the target users to inform the digital RPG development. Apprentices and supervisors were interviewed to identify characteristics of effective supervisor-apprentice communication, which became the RPG’s learning objectives. The scenarios constructed in the RPG were drawn from lived experiences shared by the apprentices in the interviews. During the development process, consultations were conducted with an advisory committee comprising of apprentices and supervisors to improve the realism of the RPG scenarios.

Three scenarios were developed for the RPG. In each scenario, players are asked to make decisions at various interaction points about how the characters should respond to the unfolding and challenging situations. Scripts were developed for the game, which were acted out and motion captured to animate digital MetaHuman characters embedded in a virtual construction site. Two example situations are introduced in this paper to illustrate the development process.

To our knowledge, the RPG introduced is one of the first applications of digital game-based training in the construction industry. The adoption of a participatory design approach ensures that the game content relates to real-world experiences. The digital RPG is highly interactive and engaging in nature and presents a novel approach to developing “soft” skills in construction.