The Third substantive Session of the UN Open-Endend Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (OEWG II) in New York under the Chairmanship of Amb. Burhan Gafoor concluded on 29 July 2022  and adopted its progress report which can be found here.

Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO lead the ICT4Peace Delegation to this meeting and delivered inter alia the following statement, which you find here.

In response to the question about the various ways in which we are currently involved in supporting and delivering capacity-building initiatives in the context of the current ICT security capacity-building landscape, for more than eight years, ICT4Peace has delivered numerous capacity-building courses on various areas related to cybersecurity. Last year we launched ICT4Peace Academy, which offers live custom tailored courses on several topics related to cybersecurity, cyber diplomacy, application of international law to cyber and cyber norms.

The Submission by ICT4Peace to the Open-Ended Working Group II (OEWG II 2021-2025) can be found here.

The Article by Amb. Paul Meyer in view of the OEWG II Third Session published in the Cyber Peace and Security Monitor and  entitled From Words to Deeds: A Programme of Action for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace” can be found here.

The Statement by ICT4Peace to the 2nd substantive session of Cyber OEWG II – March 31, 2022 can be found here

Including:

the ICT4Peace proposed “States Cyber Peer Review Mechanism” for state-conducted foreign cyber operations

and:

the ICT4Peace Call for Governments’ Commitments regarding Critical Infrastructure and Offensive Cyber Operations,

A proposal for an effective technical attribution of cyber attacks setting up an independent network of organisations engaging in attribution peer-review by Serge Droz and Daniel Stauffacher here

Finally see the Compilation of all ICT4Peace Inputs to the OEWG I (2019 -2021) by Amb. (ret.) Paul Meyer and Amb. (ret.) Daniel Stauffacher, Founder and President, ICT4Peace, here.