31 May, 2024
Geneva & Online, Switzerland
AI and the Future of Cyber Capacity Building – Session 162 WSIS+20 High-Level Event
Understanding the Opportunities, Risks, and Threats
Artificial Intelligence is changing the digital landscape, and nowhere more so than in relation to security and cyber capacity building. This session, which also serves as a meeting of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Working Group on Emerging Technologies, is an opportunity to delve more deeply into the opportunities, threats, and risks created by AI for those in the cyber capacity building space.
Key questions to drive the conversation include:
What opportunities does AI create for improving cyber capacity and security? Are there examples already in play?
What risks are created or exacerbated by AI? How do cyber capacity building efforts need to evolve to address these risks?
Are the current approaches to cyber capacity building up to the challenge? Or do we need to look at new approaches or new kinds of collaboration?
Are there specific groups or countries at greater risk from AI-enabled or AI-enhanced threats? Are there capacity gaps that may grow to be significant dangers in the future?
The session will feature interventions by speakers from governments, the private sector, and capacity building professionals. We look forward to an interactive session with those onsite and those joining remotely, and will reserve space for a broader discussion for all stakeholders.
30 May, 2024
Online
An Open Conversation with the Stakeholder Community: What’s Next for the UN Cybercrime Convention?
After over two years of negotiations, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes failed to reach an agreement on a future convention on cybercrime. Member States could not reach a consensus on the scope of the convention, or the extent of human rights safeguards in what was meant to be the final negotiating session, so an additional session will take place in August.
As the mandate for the Ad Hoc Committee expires at the UN General Assembly in September, the LetsTalkCyber initiative is organizing an online roundtable on 30 May 2024 at 14:00 CEST (Check the time on your timezone here) to take stock of the discussions on the future of the UN Cybercrime Convention, the progress made, the risks for human rights of the current draft, the future implementation of the convention, and the challenges ahead.
The conversation will be moderated by Edoardo Ravaioli, Coordinator of the Let’sTalkCyber initiative. The panel of speakers will include:
• Briony Daley Whitworth, Director, Cyber & Tech Multilateral Engagement Sector, International Security Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia.
• Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific Policy Director and Senior International Counsel, Access Now
• Katitza Rodríguez, Policy Director for Global Privacy, EFF
• Paloma Lara Castro, Public Policy Coordinator, Derechos Digitales
• Nick Ashton-Hart, Head of Delegation, Cybersecurity Tech Accord
• Timea Suto, Global Digital Policy Lead, International Chamber of Commerce [TBC]
29 May, 2024
Oxford and Online, United Kingdom
Securing Cyberspace: A Conversation with Dean Bobby Chesney and Professor Ciaran Martin
Governments and private companies around the world face a growing number of cyber security threats and attacks that are expected to increase in frequency, severity, and complexity in the coming years.
Yet despite shared concern about the evolving cyber threat landscape, and a general consensus about the applicability of existing international law to the cyber context, global efforts to regulate cyberspace have struggled to keep pace.
Robert (Bobby) Chesney, Dean of the University of Texas School of Law and James A Baker Chair III in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT, joins Professor Ciaran Martin at the Blavatnik School to discuss emerging trends in cyber security and pathways towards strengthening international law protections in cyberspace.
This event is the keynote session of a closed-door roundtable held at the Blavatnik School in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.
May 29, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Marrakech, Morocco
GITEX Africa
GITEX Africa features every major technology player, trend, and vertical, and it covers sectors including smart cities, cybersecurity, the data economy, mobility, healthcare, and telecoms.
May 27, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Geneva & Online, Switzerland
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level Event
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event will mark a significant milestone of twenty years of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, which took place in two phases — Geneva in 2003 and Tunis in 2005. Twenty years ago WSIS set the framework for global digital cooperation with a vision to build people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented information and knowledge societies.
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event will serve as a platform for multistakeholder discussions with the objective to take stock of the achievements and key trends, challenges and opportunities since the Geneva Plan of Action in 2003.
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event is scheduled to be held from 27 to 31 May 2024, co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD and co-hosted by ITU and the Swiss Confederation, with the support of remote participation.
13th-15th May 2024
New York, United States
(Intersessional) meeting of the OEWG on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies
May 14, 2024
Utrecht, Netherlands (the)
Research Symposium on Cyber Security and Society
On Tuesday May 14th ACCSS, NCSC and SURF will host a joint symposium on the topic of Cyber Security and Society. The main goal of the symposium is to bring together scientists from academia and practitioners from the government in order to exchange ideas and foster collaboration. There will be presentations of successful joint research projects conducted by the NCSC, TNO and Dutch universities, as well as talks addressing the following questions:
What is the societal relevance of academic cyber security research?
What role does the government play in the Dutch cyber security research landscape?
How can scientists and civil servants best work together?
In between the talks there will be opportunity to network.
Please register by sending an email with your name and affiliation to research@ncsc.nl. Early registration is encouraged due to a limited number of places.
10 May, 2024
New York, United States
OEWG Global Roundtable on ICT security capacity-building
This event is set to feature two panels on key focus areas and strengthening the global capacity building agenda, as well as breakout groups focusing on specific capacity-building thematic areas.
The roundtable is designed to be an action-oriented platform involving capacity-building practitioners, state representatives, and stakeholders. The aim is to enable stakeholders to discuss and exchange views; showcase national, regional, subregional, and cross-regional initiatives; encourage the sharing of information and best practices; promote learning from national strategies; and catalyse the formation of partnerships. The roundtable will also be a timely opportunity to reflect on the capacity-building mapping exercise currently being carried out by the UN Secretariat and to identify potential gaps in the existing global capacity-building landscape.
Organisation
29th April - 1st May
Oxford and Online, United Kingdom
GCSCC 10th Anniversary – Side Events on 29th April and 1st May
As part of the GCSCC Annual Conference 2024 there are a couple of side events at the Oxford Martin School on 29 April (Monday) and 1 May (Wednesday).
Monday, 29 April
- 10.00-12.30 "David versus Goliath: Cybersecurity Challenges for SMEs". Workshop. Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom (https://cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItf-6spj4iEtVzisI8lEsAu7uESWNT7gSA#/registration)
- 13.00-14.30 “Cybersecurity in Remote Work and Working from Home: Building Secure Environments”. Workshop. Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom (https://cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcO2vqT8sEtdGnaVLntECBCXNmxDHOoXa#/registration)
- 15.00-17.30 “AI cybersecurity readiness”. Workshop. Seminar Room 1 (In person only)
Wednesday, 1 May
- 09.30-11.30 “Cyber Capacity Building Impact Evaluation: Bringing Solutions to Life. Road to GC3B Geneva 2025”. Workshop. Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom (https://cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-6hqz4oGtdHxKEv-JiwVorAmEdki4tN#/registration)
- 11.30-13.00 “Cybersecurity Capacities for the Application of UN Cyber Norms: Future Research”. Workshop. Seminar Room 1 or via Zoom. (https://cs-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAof--ppjsvGdd7rhclkw_d5old8-IWnjSc#/registration)
30 Apr, 2024
Oxford, United Kingdom
GCSCC 10th Anniversary Conference Oxford
Taking place in Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, on 30 April, 2024, this year's Conference marks the GCSCC’s 10th anniversary!
The conference will bring together key stakeholders of the global cybersecurity capacity building community to discuss the latest challenges, practices and trends.
The conference is by invitation only.
