In preparation of the new Round of negotiations on Cybersecurity by the UN Governmental Group of Experts (UN GGE) (A/RES/73/266) and the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) (A/RES/73/27),the Organisation of American States OAS conducted from 12 to 16 August 2019 its Regional consultations with its member States as well as civil society, academia and the business sector.
ICT4Peace is honored to have been invited by OAS to conduct on 12 August 2019 its one day workshop on cybersecurity policy and diplomacy called: „Cyber Diplomacy in the UN Process“. The Program of the workshop can be found here.
Alison August Treppel, Belisario Contreras and Kerry Barrett of OAS were hosting this workshop. Eneken Tikk, Mika Kerttunen and Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace were lecturers and moderator.
Over 30 senior Governments officials and diplomats of the OAS members states attended the workshop, which was well received.
This workshop was made possible thanks to the financial support by the Governments of Canada and Switzerland.
ICT4Peace has also contributed the EU Regional Consultations on the UN GGE process.
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.
ICT4Peace also prepared a first submission to the OEWG negotiations starting in early September in New York.
ICT4Peace is proud to be able to look back on a close and fruitful cooperation with OAS in the field of Cybersecurity Capacity Building. The very first workshop of the ICT4Peace Capacity Building Program was held in Bogota 2014 in cooperation with OAS.
A note on the ICT4Peace Cybersecurity and Diplomacy capacity building program can be found here.
