Session
Organizer 1: John Reyels, Federal Foreign Office
Organizer 2: Maike Michaela Reinhold, Federal Foreign Office
Speaker 1: Regine Grienberger, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 2: Siim Alatalu, Government, Eastern European Group
Speaker 3: Darkwah Emmanuella , Government, African Group
John Reyels, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Maike Michaela Reinhold, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Kaan Sahin, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Round Table - Circle - 90 Min
Governance and cooperation for an evolving Internet: How does Internet governance need to change in order to meet the changing nature and role of the Internet? What tools, mechanisms, and capacity building instruments are needed for stakeholders to effectively cooperate, and engage in Internet governance?
Additional Policy Questions Information: • What are the outcomes of the “Open-ended working group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security” regarding cyber capacity building and what role will they play for the topic in the future?
• What is the respective understanding of cyber capacity building? Which issues does cyber capacity building cover beyond technical aspects?
• What role does cyber capacity building play in the regions and how could we improve the cooperation?
Not only the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the cyberspace is increasingly affected by threats and challenges. We therefore need to improve our cooperation and coordination on capacity building. The OEWG report recommends the following:
Process and Purpose
Capacity-building should be a sustainable process, comprising specific activities by and for different actors.
Specific activities should have a clear purpose and be results focused, while supporting the shared objective of an open, secure, stable, accessible and peaceful ICT environment.
Capacity-building activities should be evidence-based, politically neutral, transparent, accountable, and without conditions.
Capacity-building should be undertaken with full respect for the principle of State sovereignty.
Access to relevant technologies may need to be facilitated.
Partnerships
Capacity-building should be based on mutual trust, demand-driven, correspond to nationally identified needs and priorities, and be undertaken in full recognition of national ownership. Partners in capacity-building participate voluntarily.
As capacity-building activities should be tailored to specific needs and contexts, all parties are active partners with shared but differentiated responsibilities, including to collaborate in the design, execution and monitoring and evaluation of capacity-building activities.
The confidentiality of national policies and plans should be protected and respected by all partners.
People
Capacity-building should respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, be gender sensitive and inclusive, universal and non-discriminatory.
The confidentiality of sensitive information should be ensured.
States concluded that capacity-building is a reciprocal endeavour, a so-called “two-way street”, in which participants learn from each other and where all sides benefit from the general improvement to global ICT security. The value of South–South, South–North, triangular, and regionally focused cooperation was also recalled.”
During our session we will discuss the recommendations and will also exchange best-practice examples.
Description:
Fragility and the lack of security in cyberspace is a huge threat to all regions of the world. The cyberspace needs to be open, free, stable and secure for everyone. We therefore need to increase cyber capacity building but also avoid duplication. Countries in the process of developing their ICT infrastructures can lack resources and capabilities to address security and resilience issues. It is not only in the interest of the respective country to increase cybersecurity capacity, but building capacities and confidence across the world is crucial.
In the first part of the session the moderator will set the scene and each of the speakers will contribute from their specific stakeholder perspective as researchers, government, civil society and private sector representatives. Then the floor will be opened to the audience. This workshop is intended to be 90 min.
This discussion would make an important contribution to the current CCB discussion by helping to better understand the OEWG recommendations on CCB, providing attending representatives from various sectors and less developed regions with already existing innovate ideas and tools and hence reduce duplication as well as shifting the focus to underrepresented regions. Based on this preliminary analysis, further discussions on interregional cooperation can be continued in different fora. Furthermore, it contributes to the debate on how to strengthen an open, free, stable and secure cyber space.
In the first part of the session the moderator will set the scene and each of the speakers will contribute from their specific stakeholder perspective as researchers, government, civil society and private sector representatives. Then the floor will be opened to the audience. This workshop is intended to be 90 min.
Usage of IGF Official Tool.