Whatever your nationality or partisan leanings, there are several groups of highly important IT-related issues that your technologically challenged political leaders are at risk of botching. Those issues include the following:

-- Privacy and liberty, especially in developed countries, but even more so in certain less-developed nations.

-- Economic development, especially in developing countries.

-- Education, in developed and developing countries alike.

Space permits me to address only the first of these issues in this column.