Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace, will be participating in the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Cybersecurity Meetings in Brussels on 6 November 29017, before joining the panel discussions on cybersecurity during the Geneva Peace Week and the colloquium on Microsoft’s Brad Smith proposal on the Geneva Digital Convention at the Palais des Nations on 9 November 2017.

ICT4Peace experts have since 2007 been calling for a global framework of norms of responsible behaviour and confidence building measures in cyberspace. In 2011 ICT4Peace launched a call for a code of conduct in cyberspace in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) and published the widely acclaimed paper “Getting down to business: Realistic goals for the promotion of peace in cyber-space“.

In July 2012, again in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ICT4Peace published an op-ed called “Disarmament Negotiations for the Cyberspace are needed”.

In June 2013 ICT4Peace published a paper “The dramatic rise of cyber-attacks: What are Governments doing about it ?”.

Subsequently ICT4Peace published inter alia these three papers to support the UN GGE and OSCE, ARF etc. processes on norms and confidence building measures in cyberspace:

CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES AND INTERNATIONAL CYBER SECURITY

BASELINE REVIEWICT-RELATED PROCESSES & EVENTS IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL SECURITY (available in English and in Chinese)

A ROLE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY? ICTs, NORMS AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURESIN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (available in English and in Spanish)

In parallel, ICT4Peace has been conducting since 2014 Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy capacity building programmes in all continents of the world.

In response to the 2017 call for a Digital Geneva Convention by Microsoft, ICT4Peace published the recent article: “Wannacry, the Geneva Digital Convention and the urgent need for Cyber Peace”.