6-7 March, 2023
Rabat, Morocco
International Conference on strengthening co-operation on cybercrime and electronic evidence
The Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco, in collaboration with the Council of Europe is organising an international conference to enhance the co-operation on cybercrime and electronic evidence, in Africa. The event will provide the opportunity to present the tools offered by the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and its protocols, as well as initiatives of other regional and international organisations.
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30-31 January, 2023
Strasbourg, France
International Conference on Xenophobia and Racism committed through computer systems
The Council of Europe, through its Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC), with support from the Octopus Project and in cooperation with the Icelandic Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, is organising an international conference on xenophobia and racism committed via computer systems.
The event will take place between 30-31 January 2023 in Strasbourg, France, where experts from public and private sectors as well as international and non-governmental organisations from different regions of the world will gather.
The international conference is organised within the framework of the 20th anniversary of the First Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, that was opened for signature on 28 January 2003 in order to address this type of offences.
10 Jan, 2023
Vienna, Austria
The Convention on Cybercrime in practice: lessons learned 2001 – 2022
This side event will focus on the Convention on Cybercrime in practice: lessons learnt 2001 – 2022. Experts from Romania and other Parties to the Convention on Cybercrime from Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific and Europe will share their experiences with participants.
The Convention on Cybercrime was opened for signature in Budapest, Hungary, in
November 2001. This side event is aimed at identifying the ingredients that permitted broad acceptance and implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime in practice during the past two decades. Lessons learnt may provide useful insights for the work of the AHC.
3 Mar, 2023
New York and Online, United States
The 2023 Cyber Stability Conference (CS23)
Nearly a decade ago, States agreed that international law is applicable and essential for a secure, stable, peaceful information and communications technology (ICT) environment. The remaining question is how international law applies to the use of ICTs by States.
To facilitate focused future deliberations and therefore meaningfully contribute to the advancement of multilateral negotiations, CS23 will focus on the first source of international law that States agreed on as being applicable in cyberspace – the Charter of the United Nations (UN). Specifically, CS23 will investigate the rights and obligations of the UN Charter applicable to cyberspace, including legal principles and thresholds related to the topics such as the use of armed force; armed attack and self-defence; role and powers of the UN Security Council; and peaceful settlement of disputes.
In addition to providing a platform for the exchange of views among national experts, CS23 will also feature introductory briefings from reputable scholars, adding clarity on key concepts and supporting meaningful participation of all States in the relevant multilateral discussions.
18 Jan, 2023
Online
Cyberspace Governance at the United Nations
With a dual focus on cyber capacity building and international law, this event considers how these two elements interact and intersect, how discussions on them could progress in the UN space and outside it and how the two contribute to a safer and more secure cyberspace for all.
The event will explore how member states can achieve lasting, adaptable, and meaningful success in cyberspace governance at the United Nations whilst overcoming challenges for operationalization efforts, including differences in national capacities and capabilities, and divergences in national perspectives regarding the application of international law to cyberspace.
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26 Jan, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
ENISA Cybersecurity Policy Conference
The first ENISA Cybersecurity Policy Conference will bring together policymakers, industry representatives and key stakeholders to discuss implementation of cybersecurity policy and challenges ahead. The conference is organised in collaboration with the European Commission (DG CNECT).
The conference will address the following topics:
Development and implementation challenges of EU cybersecurity policy:
- Key cybersecurity policy files: NIS2 Directive and Cyber-resilience Act
- Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure programmes
- Sectorial policy files and cybersecurity implications
- Foresight dimension of cybersecurity policy
4 - 5 April 2023
Sydney, Australia
The Sydney Dialogue
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Sydney Dialogue is the premier policy summit for critical, emerging, cyber and space technologies. First held in 2021, the Dialogue recognises that technology is reshaping societies and economies in every part of the world, and nowhere is that more acute than in the Indo-Pacific region. It is being developed and applied so quickly, within an increasingly intense geopolitical landscape, that neither laws nor international consensus on rules and norms are keeping up.
The 2023 Dialogue will be held in-person and will be invitation-only. It will feature leading decision-makers and experts who are willing to break new ground in discussing technologies that will shape the future. The Dialogue will stimulate frank conversations about the roles for governments, industry and society in shifting away from the business-as-usual international mindset on technology.
On the agenda is cyber and digital governance, space and the geopolitical implications of expanding human activity off-earth, technology game-changers, technologies that shape war, technological competition and strategic advantage, and the role of technology and innovation in advancing human rights, climate action and human security.
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28 Feb - 3 March 2023
Kigali and Online, Rwanda
2023 FIRST & AfricaCERT Symposium: Africa and Arab Regions
10 Jan, 2023
Vienna, Austria
Gender mainstreaming the proposed cybercrime convention: Commentary on the consolidated draft
Since the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes (AHC), member states have made notable progress on incorporating gender and gender equality. Member states have moved from several general initial commitments to women’s participation in treaty negotiations to some states providing more nuanced considerations of gendered dimensions of cybercrime and the importance of gender mainstreaming.
However, while some member states have made considerable progress on advocating for gender considerations in the convention, more remains to be done, especially with regards to: ensuring gender equality pertains to the entire convention; recognizing the rights of people of diverse gender identities, expressions and sexualities; and recognizing the essentiality of the right to privacy to gender and sexual equality.
Held under the fourth negotiation of the AHC, this meeting will bring together policymakers and civil society to discuss the gendered impacts (implicit and explicit) of the current negotiating document.
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25 - 26 April 2023
Brussels, Belgium
European Cyber Agora
The European Cyber Agora is a multi-stakeholder platform bridging the gap between government, civil society and industry across Europe to shape the European cybersecurity policy agenda and identify European perspectives on global cybersecurity policy debates. It promotes collaboration across sectors including diverse voices and contributes to evidence-based cybersecurity policymaking through research-based and outcome-oriented engagement.
The agenda will feature high-level panel debates and armchair discussions with representatives of the EU institutions, national governments, cybersecurity agencies, civil society, academia and industry, as well as expert-led workshops organized by the European Cyber Agora community.
Key themes will range from EU cybersecurity policy, cyber threat intelligence sharing, cyber mercenaries and the interlinkage of geopolitics and technology.
9 - 20 January 2023
Vienna and Online, Austria
Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes – Fourth Session
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 75/282 and the road map and mode of work approved at its first session, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 74/247, will hold its fourth session from 9- 20 January 2023 in Vienna.
The session will be held in the six official languages of the United Nations in a hybrid format with both in-person and online components.
Two daily meetings of 3-hours each will take place on the understanding that the online interventions using a remote interpretation platform do not exceed thirty minutes per meeting, in accordance with the policy to mitigate the adverse auditory health impact on (simultaneous) interpreters. In the unlikely event that online interventions last longer than thirty minutes in a given meeting, the duration of the meeting would revert back to the standard hybrid duration of two hours.
Delegations may choose to participate in the formal meetings in person, through Interprefy with remote simultaneous interpretation, or by both means.
The meetings of the fourth session will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Vienna local time.
The in-person meeting will be held in the Plenary Hall, on the first floor of the M-Building at the VIC, which has the capacity to accommodate two delegates for Member States, Holy See, Palestine and the European Union and one delegate per multi-stakeholder organization.
5 Dec, 2022
Vienna International Centre , Austria
Civil Society Briefing and Needs Assessment on the Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime
13:45 - 14:45 (GMT+1)
The overall objective of this event is to engage with Civil Society Organizations, NGOs, Private Sector and Academia, on the implementation of the “Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes” and its multistakeholder engagement and to jointly discuss areas of possible further coordination and to identify the needs of Civil Society Organizations to continue to meaningfully engage in the Ad Hoc Committee on ”Cybercrime”.
22 Nov, 2022
Hybrid, Italy
Cyber Peace: Cooperating for the Stability and Security of the Cyber domain
In an era of technological interdependence, international cooperation is taking new and multifaceted forms to ensure sustainable transnational governance of the cyber domain. Cyber Diplomacy is emerging as a new diplomatic practice, involving non-traditional sets of actors called to negotiate international agreements, but also technical protocols and forms of governance accountability.
The event, organised as part of the Global PeaceTech Conference 2022, addresses the challenges and opportunities of Cyber Diplomacy as a new diplomatic practice and explores the challenges and opportunities of this shift for the peace and stability of the transnational digital domain.
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13-14 December, 2022
Santiago, Chile
Global Cyber Policy Dialogues: Latin America and the Carribean
This multistakeholder meeting will bring together participants from government, civil society, academia, and the private sector. A central goal of the meeting is to foster genuine dialogue among stakeholders from different sectors and backgrounds. As such, the event will convene about 50 participants from countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region that are active in international discussions on cybersecurity and cybercrime taking place at the United Nations, Organization of American States and elsewhere. It will also include participants from some countries which have not been as engaged in order to raise awareness and promote more active and inclusive participation in these forums from across the region.
The conference will focus on the UN normative framework for cyber stability, international cooperation to combat cybercrime, the intersections between those two areas and UN processes, and how digital transformation in Latin America can be enabled by an open, free, stable and secure cyberspace.
28 Nov, 2022
Online
GFCE WG A&C – Capacity Building and UN Processes Series: Introductory session
The “Capacity Building and UN Processes” series provides a platform for discussions and exchanges within the GFCE community on the role of capacity building in ongoing UN cyber processes. This forum supports the sharing of outcomes, experiences, and lessons learned from engagement in the OEWG and AHC respectively beyond the Working Group silos.
The first session of the GFCE Capacity Building and UN Cyber Processes series will introduce and illustrate ongoing UN cyber processes. Background and a recount of both the OEWG and AHC will be presented, as well as the timeline of expected next steps. Speakers will reflect in turn on the roles and possibilities for involvement of different types of stakeholders in both frameworks. In the second part of the session, discussions will aim to identify opportunities of involvement for the GFCE community in these processes.
The OEWG and AHC will be introduced as two distinct frameworks, through an overview of their main characteristics and desired outcomes, taking stock of their current statuses. AHC Vice-chairs will also address the updated methodology of work for the fourth and fifth session of the committee in preparation for the draft negotiating text of the convention.
Representatives of differentstakeholder groups will reflect on the relevance of their engagement with both UN cyber processes. State, private sector and civil society representatives will look at the added value of Cyber Capacity Building for their respective stakeholder type in these frameworks.
