Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman recently visited Mexico’s most violent cities where civic leaders asked him for help. This week at a conference on international crime in California, Schmidt said “They were looking for a universal hammer to protect them. For me the answer was obvious. It was technology.”
Experts claimed at the conference that Drug-dealing organizations run money laundering networks that handle an estimated $25 billion a year in drug profit and often use more sophisticated technology than law enforcement such as mapping software that tracks the location of police from high-tech control rooms, remote control submarines and military-grade rocket launchers.
The Google proposal is create an anonymous network through which citizens can safely report cartel activity without fear of retribution and create community web platforms to identify how individuals are connected to each other, to bank accounts and even to corrupt government officials.
Google claims that empowering the Mexican people with technology should produce a step forward in the fight against the drug cartels, and that's a good thing.
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