Volume 2, Fall 2007, Issue 1

Information Risk Management (privacy, discovery, finance, WWW)

This Article analyses venture capital investing trends in Latin America. In addressing the laws and economic policies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, this study contributes to existing literature in its discovery of counterintuitive venture capital investing patterns. This analysis delves into the discrepancies between what is widely held to be attractive foreign investment policy and countries’ actual share of venture capital investment. It then analyzes the trends within the context of existing literature to suggest that risk avoidance and established personal networks cause the inconsistency between traditional investment attractiveness and actual venture capital spending.

Much of the attention to contemporary privacy invading technologies focuses on the actions of governments and large organizations. Yet the actions of big brother and big corporation must be seen alongside of those of little sister and brother, not to mention mom, dad, friends and strangers. Interpersonal uses of the technologies are a prominent and prominently neglected part of the issue.

A perfect storm is brewing in the ocean of corporate enterprise today; an ever increasing volume of information combined with greater regulatory constraints surrounding emails and documents have stirred the waters. Ineffective management of electronic information has fed the surge; ease of storage has joined to unleash a torrent of problems. Information technology departments try to implement electronic archiving as a means to answer the information production and retention issue.

The Internet is a universal structure through which information is transmitted and received in any of its forms – audio, visual or written – its origin and destination being anywhere in the world. It transcends state borders, reaching a vastness far greater than their own jurisdiction. The Great Internet is a new form of international communication wherein territorial references dissipate and the powers that govern each physical space upon which states are constituted are lost.

This Article analyses venture capital investing trends in Latin America. In addressing the laws and economic policies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, this study contributes to existing literature in its discovery of counterintuitive venture capital investing patterns. This analysis delves into the discrepancies between what is widely held to be attractive foreign investment policy and countries’ actual share of venture capital investment. It then analyzes the trends within the context of existing literature to suggest that risk avoidance and established personal networks cause the inconsistency between traditional investment attractiveness and actual venture capital spending.