IGF 2021 Day 0 Event #96 Internet in 10 years from now – where is it going? Let’s check together!

Time
Monday, 6th December, 2021 (08:30 UTC) - Monday, 6th December, 2021 (09:30 UTC)
Room
Hall A2

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is a highly specialized and elite military unit, subordinated to the Ministry of National Defense, responsible for key areas related to IT, cryptology and cyber security.

A comprehensive approach to cyber security issues requires a constant cooperation of  ICT and crypto security experts with hardware and software acquisition specialists as well as the assembling (set-up) and maintenance of military networks and systems.

Other NCSC tasks are as follows:

  • research, design, construction, implementation, protection and useof national cryptological technologies;
  • manufacturing new product for the state by combining scientific and industrial potential in the field of advanced information and cryptographic technologies;
  • implementation of cryptology tasks commissioned by other state bodies or public administration, through the Ministry of National Defense.

NCSC is also responsible for numerous activities: educational, implementation, research and development (R&D) and also opinion-making ones.

Speakers

Krzysztof Kanciak PhD - NCSC expert

Onsite Moderator
NCSC expert - TBD
Online Moderator

Ms Karolina Drozdowska - NCSC senior specialist

Rapporteur

NCSC expert - TBD

Format

online quiz with a comment by the moderator

Description

A brilliant workshop in the form of a quiz (stationary and online) that will be a logical experiment referring to IGF2021 issue area: "Trust, security and stability - Cybersecurity practices and mechanisms". The presenter will provide everyone with a QR code leading to a secure website created by the National Cyber Security Centre, where everyone will be able to answer a series of questions.

The presenter will initially conduct a kind of intellectual warm-up for the audience, based on a few tricky questions with non-obvious, surprising answers from various areas of life in order to explain the formula of the workshop in a practical form. Then he will go to the main parts of the quiz.

The first part of the quiz will be devoted to predictions about development directions of the Internet, cybersecurity, social media and technologies, which were formulated 10 years ago, and which were then truly difficult to predict.

The second part of the quiz will cover the audience's visions of key issues with the subject of the first part, i.e. the functioning of the Internet, cybersecurity, social media and the development of technology in 10 years’ time, i.e. in 2031. Each time, after a series of questions, the presenter will formulate a thesis and interpret the results.

The entire workshop will lead to conclusions about the exponential development of the Internet as a whole and each specific field, as well as about the unpredictability of the directions of changes even within the short time horizon.

On the special website created by NCSC there will be a field that will allow all participants to enter their e-mail addresses, to which a list of responses given during the quiz will be sent, as well as invitations to the event planned in 10 years from the date of the quiz, so that they can compare the reality and their own expectations from 2021.