Description: This workshop offers an opportunity to share information on the First Committee processes, discuss their progress so far and have an interactive discussion which it is hoped will feed directly into the processes. The end aim will be to facilitate a discussion among the international multistakeholder community on the OEWG and the GGE processes hear from the IGF community what they should address, and will therefore offer an opportunity to make these processes more open, inclusive and transparent. The IGF workshop will be held after the first OEWG substantive session (in September 2019) and just prior to the the GGE session in New York (December), as well as the first multistakeholder intersessional in December. It would therefore come at an important juncture in the discussions.
The workshop would also act as a follow-up to a session at the 2019 edition of RightsCon in Tunis, where stakeholders will also gather to discuss the processes and opportunities relevant to the First Committee processes.
The session will begin with information-sharing from the panelists on the processes and the discussions so far.
The panel would respond to three main questions:
1. What are the OEWG and the GGE and what are their aims?
2. Considering the agendas of the two processes, what should the outcomes be?
3. What are the challenges and opportunities for non-governmental engagement, and civil society engagement in particular?
The moderator will then facilitate an open and interactive discussion with participants so as to gather reflections on key issue areas and concrete proposals to feed into the processes. Finally, further opportunities for non-government engagement following the session will also be discussed and shared.
The process for constructing cybernorms shapes their content and it is therefore expected that the discussions in this workshop will be able to feed into the discussions of the GGE and OEWG, and will act as a reference for views from a multistakeholder grouping of the issues on the agendas of both processes. The IGF offers a unique space as a multistakeholder forum, connected to the UN to have these discussions. In this sense, the open, interactive nature of the IGF will promote more inclusivity into the First Committee processes.
Expected Outcomes: 1. Broader understanding of the global cybersecurity discussions
2. Concrete recommendations and suggestions to feed into two existing, high-level UN processes related to cybersecurity by a range of stakeholders