Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

FIGURE 11.3
MCA centralized model architecture.

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ICT as a protection tool against child exploitation
IP-based alerting can be done by the centralized regional system hosted in any 
part of the world. However, if alerting is done using voice or SMS messaging then it 
should be initiated in-country for cost reasons. This would necessitate either (a) the 
mirroring of the cross-border alerting database in each of the three countries, with 
notifications sent from the locally mirrored sites; or (b) local alerting done by local 
agents or nodes in each of the countries. These local alerting nodes could receive the 
alert information by email, etc., and respond by sending an SMS broadcast using 
their own gateway software or by making phone calls.
5. 
Links will be provided to national child tracking systems in Nepal and 
Bangladesh (if/when these exist), as well as to other partner systems such as 
Homelink and the AP-NIC missing persons system) so that:
a. 
Data can be automatically transferred from these to the regional system if a 
missing child has already been recorded.
b. 
National/local partner databases can be searched for a reported missing 
child. Missing child searches could be implemented from/to in-country 
systems (such as Homelink, for example).
The MCA program needs to actively encourage potential partners to receive and act 
on the alerts, starting with the proposed pilot project districts. It is important to rec-
ognize that the regional system is not replacing the case management systems used 
by the police, child welfare service providers, helplines, shelter homes or any of the 
other stakeholders, nor is it replacing the national missing child/persons systems. It 
is a separate system which focuses on cross-border child trafficking, and in particular 
on the coordination of rescue and repatriation. A typical scenario for when a child is 
reported missing is presented in 
Figure 11.4
.