6 February 2020, 3 to 6 pm
United Nations Building, Conference Room 8
New York
With two Resolutions, the UN General Assembly 2018 decided to convene a new edition of the UN Governmental Group of Experts (GGE) on Cybersecurity (A/RES/73/266) and for the first time an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Cybersecurity (A/RES/73/27). For an overview of the and date-line see this note by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)
A first meeting of the OEWG was held on 9 to 13 September 2019 and an OEWG intersessional Meeting was held on 2-4 December 2019. The second formal OEWG Meeting will be held in New York from 10 to 14 February 2020. The UN GGE has held informal consultations on 5 and 6 December 2019 and the formal UN GGE Meeting took place from 9 to 13 December 2019. The next UN GGE Meeting will be held in Geneva from 24 to 28 February 2020.
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya to the UN and the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) are honored to offer the 2nd workshop for African Delegations to the UN in New York, to review and discuss the main topics that will be considered at the UN OEWG and UN GGE as follows:
- Introduction to the processes on and progress in international and African cybersecurity: their context, main challenges and processes, participants, outcomes; presentation, Q&A, discussion
- Existing and recommended measures for achieving international cybersecurity: voluntary norms, rules and principles and the application of the international law, confidence-building measures; presentation, Q&A, discussion
The workshop is again organized by the ICT4Peace Foundation Geneva, Switzerland. A first Workshop with African Diplomats in New York was held on 27 November 2019.
A note on the ICT4Peace Cybersecurity and Diplomacy Capacity Building program since 2014 can be found here.
ICT4Peace has written about and contributed to the work of the UN GGE over many years, some posts on our activities can be found here.
In cooperation with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA), ICT4Peace published the first Commentary on the norms developed by the previous UN GGE Meetings.
The ICT4Peace Matrix – National and International Goals and Measures can be found here.
An Overview of the ICT4Peace Foundation in Action since 2004 can be found here
Date and Time of the Workshop: 6 February 2020, 3 to 6 pm
Location: Conference Room 8, United Nations Building, New York
For Registration please inform: Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, danielstauffacher@ict4peace.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you at our workshop,
Daniel Stauffacher
Amb. (ret.) of Switzerland, President of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Geneva
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