ITU Telecom World 2009 In Review 2009 Geneva 5-9 October Cybercrime is often borderless and creates problems of jurisdiction. Underlin-ing this point, Lesotho called for an international instrument and for “the leader-ship of ITU to take on board this issue on our behalf and come up with such an instrument, which will really help us in all our countries”. Cameroon, followed by several other countries, noted the importance of the European Convention on Cybercrime, adopted in Budapest, Hungary in 2001. They also called for new global measures. As Swaziland put it, “we would like ITU to champion the enactment of a Convention for International Cooperation in prosecuting cyber-criminals — there should be no place for them to hide”. Addressing the Council of Ministers, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe described the status of ICT in his country — revealing that 600 secondary schools had benefited from a national computerization programme. He also called for investment in the country’s ICT sector. “With a teledensity of less than 15 per cent, and Internet penetration rates of less than 10 per cent, Zim-babwe is certainly an emerging market and therefore ripe for investment,” Mr Mugabe said. “In this regard, my government welcomes private-sector invest-ment in Zimbabwe’s ICT sector, taking advantage of our central location in the sub-region and our high literacy rate of over 97 per cent, which aids receptivity to these technologies.” Zimbabwe’s mobile phone sector has grown from one million subscribers at the beginning of 2009 to 2.5 million at present, he said, and the figure is expected to reach four million subscribers by January 2010. “We are also developing a national communications backbone with cross-border connections into neigh-bouring countries, namely Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Botswana. Based on these developments, it is expected that telecommunication pen-etration will increase and high-speed broadband connectivity will be realized before the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa,” President Mugabe said. 32 VVIPS and Ministerial Insight