ICT4Peace was honoured to support and moderate the High-Level Panel on the Role of Norms in Cybersecurity hosted by the Government of Bangladesh and the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Governments of Singapore, Estonia, Brasil, Germany and Switzerland. The event was held during the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2018. Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace was chairing the meeting and moderating the panel discussion. The program can be found here.
The event included statements from the following dignitaries:
- Statement by H. E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Statement by H. E. Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore
- Statement by H. E. Mr. Paul Teesalu, Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia
- Statement by H. E. Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations
- Statement by Mr. Masato Otaka, Ambassador in charge of Cyber Policy, Japan
and was followed by a panel discussion with the following distinguished speakers:
- H.E. Mr. Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Information and Communication Technology Affairs, Government of Bangladesh
- Mr. Salem Avan, Director, Global Services Division, UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UNOICT)
- Ms. Angela McKay, Senior Director, Cyber-security Strategy and Policy, Microsoft
- Ms. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace (Moderator)
ICT4Peace has been working on the role of norms, confidence-building measures and capacity building for peace and security in the cyberspace for many years and has published several leading publications.
Dr. Eneken Tikk introduced and discussed the last publication, which was published in cooperation with UN ODA and with the support of the German Government and included a first-ever collection of commentaries on the proposed UN GGE 2015 Norms.
