education. These building blocks provide valuable guidance for governments that are ultimately responsible for implementing cybersecurity rules and policies.90 Conclusion Although all of the following matters are addressed in greater depth in the Toolkit, a few points bear mentioning given this section’s discussion: ƒƒCyberworld is a burgeoning space: In 2016, over 3.488 billion people, roughly forty percent of the world’s population, used the internet.91 Over sixty percent of all internet users are in developing countries, with forty-five percent of all internet users below the age of twenty-five years. By the end of the year 2017, it is estimated that mobile broadband subscriptions will approach seventy percent of the world’s total population. By 2020, the number of networked devices (the “internet of things” (IoT)) will outnumber people by six to one, completely transforming current conceptions of the internet; moreover, interconnectivity will not be limited to the networking of devices but will also extend to humans, both at the individual and collective level (the “internet of everything” (IoE)).92 In the hyper-connected world of tomorrow, it will become hard to imagine a “computer crime”, and perhaps any crime, that does not involve electronic evidence linked with internet protocol (IP) connectivity. The greatest growth in the internet in the coming years will be the developing world because that is where the world’s next billion people will access the internet for the first time.93 It follows from that that the developing world is also where the greatest need will be to put in place policy and legal approaches for dealing with cybersecurity and cybercrime. ƒƒDefining cybercrime poses difficulties (see section 2 A, below): A limited number of acts against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data or systems represent the core of cybercrime. Beyond this, however, computer-related acts for personal or financial gain or harm, including forms of identity-related crime, and computer content-related acts (all of which fall within a wider meaning of the term “cybercrime”) do not lend themselves easily to efforts to arrive at legal definitions of the aggregate term. Certain definitions are required for the core of cybercrime acts. However, a “definition” of cybercrime is not as relevant for other purposes, such as defining the scope of specialized investigative and international cooperation powers, which are better focused on electronic evidence for any crime, rather than a broad, artificial “cybercrime” construct. ƒƒCybercrime is global and occurs across sectors: Globally, cybercrime is broadly distributed across financially-driven acts, computer-content related acts, and acts against the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of computer systems. Perceptions of relative risk and threat vary, however, between governments and private sector enterprises. Currently, crime statistics may not represent a sound basis for cross-national comparisons, although such statistics are often important for policy making at the national level. ƒƒInternational legal instruments have done much to spread increase knowledge sharing (see section 3 A, below): Legal measures play a key role in the prevention and combatting of cybercrime. These are required in all areas, including criminalization, procedural powers, Page 25 | Chapter 1 | § B. Phenomenon & Dimensions of Cybercrime Table of Contents