2-3 November 2022
Cape Town, South Africa
The Global Constellation Annual Conference: Linking Cybersecurity Capacity Research to Development
The Global Constellation of Cybersecurity Capacity Centres will hold its annual conference on 2nd and 3rd November 2022. This year’s conference is being hosted by the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA) under the theme of ‘Linking Cybersecurity Capacity Research to Development’.
The conference will bring together academics and researchers, implementers, government representatives and law enforcement agencies, funders, and members of the policy community involved in global cybersecurity capacity building. It will seek to integrate perspectives across these stakeholders to address the pressing issues of capacity building.
13-15 September 2022
The Hague, Netherlands (the)
GFCE Annual Meeting 2022
The GFCE Annual Meeting 2022 in the Hague will bring the GFCE Community together in person for the first time after almost three years to reflect on the GFCE's developments and activities, explore the GFCE's coordination role in identified areas (e.g. gender, UN processes, regions), and exchange ideas or updates on key topics.
The three-day Annual Meeting will take place at The Hague Conference Centre and there will be several networking opportunities arranged for all participants.
28 November - 2 December
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2022)
The 17th IGF, under the overarching theme Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future, will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia but it will also be hosted in a hybrid format.
The meeting programme is guided by five themes drawn from the Global Digital Compact in the UN Secretary-General's Our Common Agenda report.
The IGF 2022 Call for Session Proposals invites stakeholders to propose sessions on those themes and is open until 3 June 2022.
27 Jul, 2022
Conference Room 8, United Nations Building, New York, United States
Luncheon Side Event on the Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building (GC3B)
The Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building (GC3B) will take place in February 2023, focusing on "Cyber Resilience for Development" and co-organized by the World Bank, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), World Economic Forum, and CyberPeace Institute.
This side-event is hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany in collaboration with the GFCE, and is supported by co-sponsors from the GC3B Steering Committee: Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States and the Organization of American States (OAS).
Kindly note that due to limited space RSVP is on a first-come, first-serve basis and limited to in-person attendance.
29 Jun, 2022
Online
Report Launch: “National Cybersecurity Strategies: Lessons Learned and Reflections from the Americas and Other Regions”
11AM EASTERN TIME | 3PM UTC
A National Cybersecurity Strategy is an essential policy tool for any nation’s economic, security, and social well-being. As Latin America and the Caribbean prioritize the development, revision, and implementation of NCS, adopting the best approach at the national level can become a challenge. The Cybersecurity Program of the OAS/CICTE and Global Partners Digital will launch their publication: “National Cybersecurity Strategies: Lessons Learned and Reflections from the Americas and Other Regions” addressing possible approaches to develop, implement, and review an NCS.
Webinar in English, interpretation in Spanish available.
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Organisation
28 Jun, 2022
Tel Aviv University - Berglas Building(Room 101), Israel
Capacity Building – Bridging the Implementation Gap
16:00-17:30 (UTC+3)
Once again, Cyber Week is proud to present an event focused on sharing approaches for capacity building and building digital resilience. There is much to learn from existing projects and initiatives but we want to focus the discussion on bridging the implementation gap – how to make sure the work really makes an impact. Hear from leading lights in the community from multinational development agencies, country and project leads in this area and join the discussion on what should be done in order to achieve the desired results.
Tel Aviv University (TAU) is keen to continue the thought leadership in this area as part of it’s own work contributing to the world of cyber capability development, building on the Progress Methodology developed at TAU and the Regional Cyber Resilience Lab.
28 Jun, 2022
Online
The Status of Cybersecurity Capacity in the South African Public Sector
10:00-11:30 (SAST)
The goal of this webinar is to discuss the state of cybersecurity skills in the South African public sector. The CIO of MICTSETA Mr. Moloti Nkune will lead the conversation by providing a bird's-eye view of the state of cybersecurity professionals in the South African public sector.
Despite numerous cybersecurity academies created by corporate South Africa and universities, the availability of professionals does not match the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks, as well as the complexity of emerging threats and risks. It is predicted that to cope with the magnitude of cyberthreats in both public and private sector, South Africa needs 4 million skilled cybersecurity professionals. Expert panellists will provide insights into how we can bolster our cybersecurity capacity and cyber deterrence to achieve an international level of cyber resilience to protect national critical information infrastructure assets.
Despite numerous cybersecurity academies created by corporate South Africa and universities, the availability of professionals does not match the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks, as well as the complexity of emerging threats and risks. It is predicted that to cope with the magnitude of cyberthreats in both public and private sector, South Africa needs 4 million skilled cybersecurity professionals. Our expert panellists will provide insights into how we can bolster our cybersecurity capacity and cyber deterrence to achieve an international level of cyber resilience to protect national critical information infrastructure assets.
28 Jun, 2022
Online
Cybersecurity: How Human Networks Build Cybersecurity Capacity
14:00 – 15:00 UTC
The Internet Society and its members recognize that strengthening human capacity in the field of cybersecurity is highly important to advance a secure and trustworthy Internet. The greater our ability to strengthen human capacity in cybersecurity, the greater our chances to defend organizations, industries and nations from cyber threats and attacks.
Within this focus in mind, the Internet Society organization membership team is inviting you and your colleagues to attend the next member event: "Cybersecurity: How Human Networks Build Cybersecurity Capacity". In this panel discussion we will focus, together with high level experts, on the community building aspects that eventually enhance the cybersecurity posture. We will gather perspective from various initiatives that focus, roughly, on community, industry, and nations.
The panel will be composed of:
- Marjo Baayen: Director, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE).
- Olaf Kolkman: Principal - Internet Technology, Policy, and Advocacy at the Internet Society.
- Gabriel Chen: Vice Chair, Cybersecurity Special Interest Group (SIG).
- Pascal Steichen: Chairman, European Cybersecurity Competence Network and Centre (ECCC)
6 Sep, 2022
Online
1st AfricaCERT CYBER DRILL: “Testing The Waters”
The Africa Computer Emergency Response Team (AfricaCERT) has completed its first annual Drill to test the capability of Computer Security Incident Response Teams in African economies from 30 June – 01 July 2021.
A Coordination team comprised of AfricaCERT, bjCSIRT (Benin), CERT-MU (Mauritius), EGCERT (Egypt), KE-CIRT (Kenya), KEYSTONE (Tunisia), tunCERT (Tunisia) organized the Drill. CERT-MU chaired this 2021 edition; the scenarios were provided by CERT-MU and EGCERT and supported by SILENSEC CYBER RANGE platform.
More information:
- africacertdrill2021pressrelease_eng5
- africacertdrill2021pressrelease_fr1
29 - 30 November 2023
Accra, Ghana
Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building (GC3B) 2023: “Cyber Resilience for Development”
The inaugural Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building (#GC3B), co-organized by the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), the World Bank (WB), the CyberPeace Institute, and the World Economic Forum (WEF), will take place in Accra (Ghana) on the 29th-30th November 2023 under the theme “Cyber Resilience for Development.”
Built upon four pillars – (1) Cyber Resilience for Development; (2) Collaboration to Secure the Digital Ecosystem; (3) Cyber Capacity Building for the Stability and Security of the Digital Environment; and (4) Solutions for Safeguarding Development from Digital Risks and Threats – the conference seeks to bring together decision-makers from around the world to catalyze action on mainstreaming cybersecurity, resilience, and cyber capacity building (#CCB) within the international development agenda. It also aims to raise awareness of how cybersecurity and resilience are an integral part of digital, social, and economic development as well as critical to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs).
The first-annual GC3B is anticipated to:
• Develop a demand-driven and international Global Cyber Capacity Building Agenda for cyber resilient development;
• Enhance CCB efforts by accelerating current multi-stakeholder cooperation and public-private partnerships;
• Mobilize global action, promote coordination mechanisms for CCB at the global and regional levels, and encourage funding of CCB;
• Advance good practices and tools for the protection of critical infrastructure; and
• Showcase examples from developing countries, particularly across the Global South, that have effectively incorporated cybersecurity and resilience into their development strategies and infrastructure projects and successfully coordinated external CCB funding and activities.
For more information, please email contact@gc3b.org
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6 - 7 June 2022
Online
Diversifying Cyber Diplomacy
This event will be hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. The aim of the workshop is a) to bring together academia, think tanks and public and private institutions and b) to bring all the CYDIPLO network teachers and researchers together and will focus on issues including, gender issues in cyber security and diplomacy, perspectives from the global south, capacity building challenges in emerging cyberdiplomacy nations, non-traditional/non-western forms and approaches to cyberdiplomacy. As well as a series of roundtable discussions, the workshop will include talks from those actively involved in cyber diplomacy and leading academics in the field. Day 1 of the workshop will be open to the public and streamed. Day 2 will be for network researchers only and will discuss issues related to project management and development, focusing on planned deliverables such as Special Issue in an academic journal and the Handbook of Cyberdiplomacy, as well as developing teaching materials and training for the MOOC and handbook.
Outputs: The workshop will result in detailed plans for delivery of the planned Special Issue, lead to a) a workshop summary on the basis of which an issue brief on diversifying cyberdiplomacy will be published, b) help to develop the sections of the handbook pertaining to non-traditional, non-western, approaches to cyberdiplomacy, and will examine the role of countries and actors in the global south, c) discuss the material produced for the Special Issue.
Keynote speakers:
- Enrico Calandro (GFCE)
- Clare Hutchinson (NATO)
Program Day 1
- Welcome and introduction (10:30 CET)
- Keynote talk 1 – Enrico Calandro: Cyber diplomacy in Africa: challenges, priorities and perspectives (11:00)
- Roundtable 1 – Diversifying cyber diplomacy: gender issues (11:45)
- Roundtable 2 – Diversifying cyber diplomacy: South-North relations, norms contestation, and capacity-building (14:00)
- Roundtable 3 – Diversifying cyber diplomacy: cooperation or contestation? (15:30)
- Keynote talk 2 – Clare Hutchinson: Gender mainstreaming in cyber diplomacy (17:15)
Organisation
5 Jul, 2022
Geneva and Online, Switzerland
2022 Cyber Stability Conference: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Services across Sectors (CS22)
09:15-18:00 CEST
In a world that is increasingly digitized and connected, malicious ICT activities against critical infrastructure and critical information infrastructure supporting essential services to the public are rapidly growing in scale and complexity. This worrying trend impacts individuals and societies as a whole and has the potential of threating international peace and security through national or regional destabilization as well as through a direct threat to institutions and individuals.
Protecting critical infrastructure from ICT threats is a complex and multi-layered task where different actors play interdependent and mutually supporting roles. Leveraging the rich international and digital community in Geneva, UNIDIR’s 2022 Cyber Stability Conference will provide a platform for discussion among experts and practitioners of different sectors with a view to extracting key insights that may enable further progress in multilateral discussions and support more efficient policy interventions by national governments for critical infrastructure protection.
25 May, 2022
Online
Getting it right: EU multi-stakeholder dialogue on the UN cybercrime treaty negotiation
13:00 to 14:00 CEST.
The EU Cyber Direct - EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative together with the European Commission and the European External Action Service organise the online meeting ‘Getting it right: EU multi-stakeholder dialogue on the UN cybercrime treaty negotiation’.
The United Nations negotiation of a new cybercrime treaty convenes for its second session (30 May – 10 June 2022) with the demanding task of discussing general provisions as well as criminalisation, procedural measures and law enforcement clauses. As this is the first time the UN Member States are negotiating a binding legal framework on cybercrime, the stakes are high on the scope and impact this work will have in regulating online activity and shaping international criminal justice cooperation in the digital era.
A building block to this process is the meaningful participation of diverse voices from the multi-stakeholder community and the incorporation of their input in the discussion. The European Union and its Member States have developed their contribution and, building on previous consultations, would invite an exchange of views with civil society organisations, the private sector and academia as the negotiation continues.
This virtual event will provide a venue to share insights on the EU position and stimulate a debate with non-governmental stakeholders to consult their perspectives about specific provisions and aspects of the negotiation.
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16 - 20 May 2022
31st UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ31)
From 16 to 20 May, civil society organizations and UN member states will gather in Vienna and online for the annual session of the CCPCJ.
Amid a busy season of meetings for the Vienna-based crime-focused diplomatic community, at the CCPCJ member states will consider four draft resolutions. Given the thematic focus on cybercrime in the plenary agenda and the ongoing negotiations on a new cybercrime treaty at the UN, the UK’s resolution on ‘effective national legal frameworks to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse’ will be particularly topical and shaped by the context of the treaty negotiation.
- On the 16th of May at 12:15 CEST, one of the sessions will focus on "The importance of including external perspectives in the negotiations on a UN #cybercrime treaty" with speakers Ian Tennant, H.E. Ms. Faouzia Boumaiza Mebraki, H.E. Troy Lulashnyk, Louise Marie Hurel, Joyce Hakmeh, Summer Walker and Eric do Val Lacerda Sogocio.
19 - 20 May 2022
Geneva and Online, Switzerland
Cyber PoA Multistakeholder Event: ”Advancing multi-stakeholder dialogue on the functions, responsibilities and operational requirements of a Cyber Program of Action”
Canada, The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Cyber Peace Institute are organising a 1.5 day in-person/hybrid workshop on:
“Advancing multi-stakeholder dialogue on the functions, responsibilities and operational requirements of a Cyber Program of Action” in Geneva, Switzerland from 1pm on May 19 to close of business on May 20th, 2022.
Participants may already register through the following Google form (recommended on Chrome): https://forms.gle/6Bkx6PBvtz1TL9r99
** Note: Immediate inquiries can be directed to arthur.david@international.gc.ca
