Transborder data flow — how it impinges on the information industry

Abstract

I will be the first to admit that I am not an expert on transborder data flow (TBDF). On reflection I do not know what it takes to be an expert in the subject. It is however a subject which has taxed the minds of a large number of people in the information industry since the early 1980s and also a number of our public administrators. In that sense as I happen to be employed by an international administration it is inevitable that I should have come in contact with TBDF discussions at various levels. I will however, during this presentation, concern myself mostly with a review of the implications of TBDF. In so doing I will try to cover the following aspects:

Citation

Mahon, B. (1986), "Transborder data flow — how it impinges on the information industry", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 38 No. 8, pp. 257-261. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051023