Camera Phones in Korea
Asia does it again – this time Korea. You will recall that last week, we indicated that China is a country that takes serious efforts to ban Spam. This week, it is Korea, who is doing a first – this time with camera phones. Korea is facing elections in April, and it wants to make sure that this elections will be the cleanest ever.
As reported, a surveillance system using camera phones will be introduced.
The National Election Commission (NEC) will run a hotline center around March 15 and camera phone owners can report any illegal activities by taking snaps of the actual scene. If this hotline center is put into operation, camera phone owners can take pictures of the illegal election campaign on the spot with their cell phones and report them to the NEC's mobile internet homepage immediately.
Korea is a country where broadband is widespread, where a lot of action takes place via the Internet. See our earlier posting about one candidate and his election campaign via the Internet. This story definitely shows that camera phones can be used effectively – in contrast to other opinions condemning them as a tool to conduct fraud. It is mentioned that camera phones are used to take pictures of credit card numbers at ATM machines, to use them during examination, to copy recipes from books (see Amazon.com, which allows you to take a look into books as well since a couple of months) or for pornographic purposes.
True – but how widespread are these cases. Shouldn’t we stop condemning this innovation and take camera phones as opportunity? To catch a picture of my kid with a camera phone is better than to say – oh , sorry, I forgot the camera at home. Or to capture a great scenery a post it online in one of the moblogs. Catch a burglar or take pictures of a bank robbery? More dangerous, but surely in the making.
So let’s focus on the positive aspects of innovation and stop complaining!
(By Asia Business Consulting)
As reported, a surveillance system using camera phones will be introduced.
The National Election Commission (NEC) will run a hotline center around March 15 and camera phone owners can report any illegal activities by taking snaps of the actual scene. If this hotline center is put into operation, camera phone owners can take pictures of the illegal election campaign on the spot with their cell phones and report them to the NEC's mobile internet homepage immediately.
Korea is a country where broadband is widespread, where a lot of action takes place via the Internet. See our earlier posting about one candidate and his election campaign via the Internet. This story definitely shows that camera phones can be used effectively – in contrast to other opinions condemning them as a tool to conduct fraud. It is mentioned that camera phones are used to take pictures of credit card numbers at ATM machines, to use them during examination, to copy recipes from books (see Amazon.com, which allows you to take a look into books as well since a couple of months) or for pornographic purposes.
True – but how widespread are these cases. Shouldn’t we stop condemning this innovation and take camera phones as opportunity? To catch a picture of my kid with a camera phone is better than to say – oh , sorry, I forgot the camera at home. Or to capture a great scenery a post it online in one of the moblogs. Catch a burglar or take pictures of a bank robbery? More dangerous, but surely in the making.
So let’s focus on the positive aspects of innovation and stop complaining!
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 1:39 am
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