Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

The advantages of the centralized option are:
1. 
It is not dependent on the implementation of national missing child systems. 
The intervention still needs the support and cooperation of the authorities to 
succeed, but the technological system can be deployed independently of them. 
This is likely to result in faster implementation as well as better coordination of 
activities across the three countries.
2. 
Since the alert notifications are controlled centrally, the response to a missing 
child report can be coordinated and have a broad reach. It is possible, for 
example, to configure a notifications database to send alerts according to a 
predetermined schedule (for example, immediately to BGB in Bangladesh, 
to railway police and others along known transit routes in India after a period 
of number of hours, and later to trusted organizations operating in the likely 
destination cities).
3. 
As with Option 1, this may require the drafting and implementation of SOPs to 
handle the information flows and collaboration between governments. However, 
the information exchange is more likely to succeed if it is being coordinated at 
regional level.
4. 
The system will, over time, provide accurate data in relation to cross-border 
trafficking of children.

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CBCT response system
Some of the risks/disadvantages are
:
1. 
Without in-country missing child systems or some mechanisms for effective, 
coordinated responses by the authorities in Nepal and Bangladesh, and without 
a national system in India, this model is limited in its capacity to distribute 
alerts amongst the police, border guards, railway police, etc.
2. 
The management and operation of the CBCT response system requires 
significant resources which the MCA program would have to provide.
3. 
There is a risk that the system is seen as a private initiative, which may inhibit 
the engagement by governments and participation by the State authorities.
4. 
The costs associated with the implementation of the regional CBCT response 
system are primarily dependent on the technological components used to build 
it, and where/how it is hosted. Taking the same approach as was taken for the 
national missing child tracking systems, it is expected that the TCO is in the 
order of $400,000 over the three years of the pilot phase.
Child is reported
as missing
Child missing for
weeks/months
Missing child matched
to “found but
untraced” child
Child
in “found”
database?
Yes
Child may still
be in transit
Child
confirmed as
missing suspected
trafficking?
Child found?
Yes
Record in and look for matching
“found but untraced” child in
CBCT database
Initial approach proceedings for safe rescue
of child for repatriation/reunification
(depends on where child has been located)
Local Bangladesh
police processes
Cross-border
collaboration
CBCT response
system
Activate alert
sequence
Escalate alert
(boarder reach)
Information forwarded
to police to investigate
FIGURE 11.4
Centralized Option—High-Level Scenario: Child is reported as missing.

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