An area in which Malta has made considerable progress over the last two decades is that of Information and Communications Technology. Today, ICT is being applied throughout Maltese society: high-technology applications such as Internet Banking, I-Gaming, and E-Commerce are widely in use. Often taken for granted, these services have required a great deal of effort to develop, including the telecommunications infrastructure needed for their deployment. The situation regarding the introduction of computers in Malta-a small Mediterranean state which was once a British fortress colony-has not...