Ali,
This is a very dodgy issue, from a government perspective without security there is no economic or social stability on the other hand crime keeps on mutating. When it comes to increasing physical security employing more policemen, installing ccTV camera's are some solutions that come to mind, however how do you police a knowledge society? the only way is to inspect packets as they are shipped to and from their respective destinations, however the sender and the receiver have to be fully cognisant of their responsibilities from a security perspective this leads me to another question, how do you police people with fake identities (wrong who is data?) the natural solution seems to open each package and see what it contains, in developed economies it is a matter of life and death since most critical systems rely on technology or the Internet, Africa is not yet there but once we start operating strategic installations online then it will be a critical issue. That said we seem to agree on common issues such as Africa CERT as a continent, this is one way of taking the Cybersecurity game a notch higher but we can no longer turn a blind eye to surveillance, it is reall. Just like i am uncomfortable driving in certain parts of the city because of questionable security i would be uncomfortable transacting on an insecure information super highway. This may explain the discord between the number of Internet users online and growth of e-commerce business, do people really have faith in electronic commerce? If not why? most likely the answer has to do with security