Drífa Atladóttir, ETH MSC STP alumna was interviewed by the ETH Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) on her experience in writing a policy paper for ICT4Peace. See ...
ICT4Peace Remarks to Eighth Substantive Session of the UN OEWG 8-12 July 2024, New York by Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace Esteemed Chair, Distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, Thank ...
Highly relevant and successful “Techs” Civics Francophones presented their projects on 30 Mai 2024 at HEID Geneva, an event organised by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie OIF and ICT4peace. ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director of ICT4Peace participated in the UN OEWG Global Roundtable in ICT Security Capacity-Building at the UN in New York. Her statement can be summarised as follows: ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to publish this groundbreaking policy paper: Navigating the Quantum Wave – A Policy Maker’s Guide for Responsible Governance of Quantum Technologies by Drífa Atladóttir, Advisor, ICT4Peace and ...
ICT4Peace comments and recommendations regarding the Global Digital Compact (GDC) Zero Draft (See Pdf here) 1. ICT4Peace General Comments ICT4Peace supports in general terms the objectives and principles of the ...
ICT4Peace on 29 April to 3 May 2024 is carrying out its newest version of its course “Protection of critical infrastructure and critical information infrastructure against cyber attacks” in Costa ...
ICT4Peace is proud to conduct this novel online Masterclass in cooperation with the Organisation of American States from 23 to 26 April 2024 on “Cybersecurity and Human Rights: A Gender-Inclusive ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Executive Director and Professor Przemek Roguski taught at the online Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Course for CLV Countries from 19 to 21 March 2024. This course was ...
Statement by Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Executive Director to the OEWG Informal Stakeholder Consultations, 6 December 2023 The text can be found here Thank you to the chair and secretariat for ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace, participated in the Paris Peace Forum High-Level Roundtable on “Emerging Threats and Cut-Edge Risks, a Turning Point for Peace and Security in Cyberspace?” along with: ...
Delighted Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director of Ict4peace was invited to this important panel on Cyber Mercenaries of the Paris Peace Forum. Watch the recording here 👉 https://lnkd.in/edVV9R5s Her statement starts at ...
Joint civil society statement on cyber peace and human security UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security The statement was delivered by Jasmine Cintron Soto on behalf ...
“À la suite du XVIIIe Sommet de Djerba, l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) a créé un Groupe de travail exécutif chargé de formuler des propositions opérationnelles pour renforcer l’action ...
ICT4Peace in cooperation with the Department of ICT Security, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) of the Kingdom of Cambodia organised the Cybersecurity Capacity Building for Policymakers and Cyber-diplomats from Laos, ...
ICT4Peace in cooperation with the Department for Cybersecurity of the Lao PDR organised the 5th Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Course for the CLV ASEAN Countries. The Course was opened by ...
The ICT4Peace Academy, along with OAS is proud to support ITU’s Her CyberTracks program with a tailor-made Cyber Diplomacy Course for women leaders, which was held online from 5 to ...
Statement by Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Executive Director at the OEWG Stakeholder Meeting of the Fifth Substantive Session at the UN in New York on 26 July 2023. The Fifth Substantive ...
ICT4Peace est honoré d’avoir été invité par le Gouvernement Suisse et l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) à appuyer le Groupe de travail exécutif chargé de formuler des propositions opérationnelles ...
ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology are happy to report the inaugural lectures by Prof. Margarita Boenig Liptsin and Prof. Nadja Mazouz on 10 May 2023 at ...
Alain MODOUX played a pivotal role in steering the process which led the United Nations General Assembly to proclaim 3 May “World Press Freedom Day”. See also article by UNESCO. ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to have co-organized with the Organization of American States (OAS) a specialised course for Senior Government Officials from Latin America and the Caribbean on the Application of International ...
The UN’s Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the security and use of ICTs concluded its fourth session (March 6-10) at UN HQs in New York. The meeting was marked by ...
ICT4Peace – in cooperation with the Organisation of the American States (OAS) – have successfully completed its 3 Days Basic Course on Cyber-Diplomacy, Law and Norms (21 – 23 ...
ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) were delighted to participate in two inaugural Conferences on Digital Democracy and Ethics in Technological Societies at ETH by the newly ...
OAS Masterclass on Cooperation and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in Cyberspace (December 2022)
Statement by ICT4Peace at UN OEWG on ICT meeting with Stakeholders, December 6, 2022 Thank you Chair. I will speak briefly to the ICT4Peace submission for this meeting which has ...
Submission by ICT4Peace to the OEWG on ICT Inter-sessional meeting, December 6, 2022 The Chair has requested input on the topics of confidence-building and the creation of a directory of ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of ICT4Peace on 11 November 2022 moderated at the Paris Peace Forum important Panel on “Non-Proliferation of Malicious Software and Practises Intended to Harm.” Other panelists ...
Cyber Security at the UN General Assembly First Committee – Déjà vu all over again A Commentary by ICT4Peace prepared by Paul Meyer On November 3rd the First Committee (Disarmament ...
A Podcast conversation with Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice President and COO of ICT4Peace on Digital Spaces: Risk and Opportunities for Peace. How can digital spaces be used to contribute to a ...
ICRC ICT4Peace Academy Three Days Course on Mis-, Disinformation and Hate Speech for ICRC staff (October 2022).
In view of the third Session of the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG II) on ICTs, which takes place from 25-29 July in New York, ICT4Peace is pleased to publish this ...
ICT4Peace is proud to publish the Policy Brief by Martin Dahinden, Vice-Chair, ICT4Peace Foundation: How can Arms Control and Disarmament Contribute to a Secure Cyberspace ? The publication can be ...
On the occasion of the second substantive session UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG), Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chairman of OEWG invited stakeholders to informal consultations on the topic of capacity building. Amb. ...
The military invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing cyberwar made it abundantly clear, that the application of the International Law and the International Humanitarian Law in the Cyberspace and the ...
The Fourth OAS – ICT4Peace Academy 5 Days Online Course on International Cyber Diplomacy, Law and Norms (22 to 28 February 2022) was successfully completed. The goal of this course ...
OAS ICT4Peace Academy Five Days Training Course on Cyber Diplomacy and Norms for Policy Makers and Diplomats of the OAS Member States (February 2022).
The Red Cross was previously considered untouchable. The fact that it is now the victim of an attack could be a wake-up call for all humanitarian organizations. So far, there ...
Three days Training Course on Mis-,Disinformation and Hate Speech for ICRC staff members (February 2022)
Like in 2019 ICT4Peace is honoured to present its submission to the UN Open-Ended Working Group (UN OEWG) on Security of and in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of the ICT4Peace Foundation participated at the Virtual, Informal Consultative Discussion with Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Security ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of the ICT4Peace Foundation participated in the Virtual, Informal Consultative Discussion with Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Security ...
ICT4Peace is honoured that Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of the ICT4Peace Foundation has been invited by the Paris Peace Forum to moderate the high-level Panel entitled: “Keeping cyber attackers ...
Launched in July 2021 by Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of ICT4Peace, the work of the ICT4Peace Academy has successfully taken off with the holding of 4 Five Days Online ...
ICT4Peace Academy est heureux d’avoir offert du 6 au 10 Décembre 2021 son premier Programme de certificat en ligne de cinq jours pour les représentants des pays africains francophones: Cyber diplomatie, ...
The ICT4Peace Five Days Online Certificate Course on International Cyber Diplomacy, Law and Norms for Government Officials from Southern African States successfully completed. ICT4Peace has since 2014 been offering over 30 ...
Following on the success of last year’s online course on International Cyber Diplomacy, Laws and Norms and with the support of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of the Republic of ...
The third OAS – ICT4Peace Academy 5 Days Online Course on International Cyber Diplomacy, Law and Norms (8 to 12 November 2021) was successfully completed. The goal of this course ...
Cyber Security at UN GA’s First Committee 2021 – An appearance of harmony On 3 November 2021 a new joint First Committee Resolution (L.13), co-sponsored by the US and Russia ...
ICT4Peace is honoured that Anne-Marie Buzatu Vice-President and COO is speaking at the opening ceremony of the Geneva Peace Week on 1 November 2021 from 16:00 to 17:30 pm CET. ...
The Swiss Federal Council is conducting a consultation on the new security policy strategy. Cyber risks and cyber warfare take a more prominent position in this report than ever before: https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/dl/proj/2021/36/cons_1/doc_1/fr/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-dl-proj-2021-36-cons_1-doc_1-fr-pdf-a.pdf. ...
Conversation with Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the role of the Red Cross in creating a safe cyber space during Cyber Polygon 2021. He ...
Le Temps, 29 juin 2021 La Suisse et la cybersécurité: rapports, débats, action! OPINION. L’arrivée prochaine de l’ambassadeur Alexandre Fasel, qui sera le principal responsable des questions de cybersécurité, annonce ...
Estonia is hosting the first official UN Security Council open debate on maintaining international peace and security in cyberspace. “The UN Security Council high-level virtual debate at 8am EDT/14.00 CEST on ...
The Question of Neutrality and Right to Self-defence in the era of Cyber-Warfare was discussed at the Swiss IGF 2021. The discussion was moderated by Nicolas Zahn (operation libero) and ...
President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin sit for a photo op before the start of their summit Wednesday in Geneva. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) Expectations for the June ...
Incremental Progress or Circular Motion? – The UN Group of Governmental Experts (UN GGE) Report 2021 Making progress on complex issues in a forum like the United Nations with 193 ...
Please see interesting paper by Prof. Rolf Weber published by Jusletter IT of 27 May 2021, which can be found here. Abstract “Governance issues in the cybersecurity context have so ...
The second OAS – ICT4Peace 5 Days Online Course on International Cyber Diplomacy, Law and Norms (12 to 16 April 2021 was successfully completed. The goal of this course was ...
On March 12, 2021, the United Nations adopted a UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) report on the Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International ...
Trotz Cyberangriffen: Russland, China und die USA können sich bei der Cybersicherheit überraschend einigen Sechs Jahre lang ging in der Uno beim Thema Cybersicherheit nichts mehr. Die Fronten zwischen den ...
On Friday March 12, 2021, after one and half years of proceedings the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Information and Telecommunications (ICT) in the context of international security, ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to publish its latest Cyber Policy Brief by Sara Pangrazzi, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace. Please find the full paper here. “The question on how international law applies to ...
ICT4Peace is proud to publish a first of its kind discussion paper by Martin Dahinden on Swiss neutrality in the age of cyber warfare. The original text in German can ...
Article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) by Paul Meyer and Daniel Stauffacher. “The U.S. recently fell victim to a cyberattack of staggering proportions: Using a compromised software upgrade, a foreign ...
In January 2021 Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Chair of the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) published the Draft Substantive Report (Zero Draft) on the results of the negotiations among UN member ...
Recent cyberattacks underscore the need for international norms of responsible behavior, and an institutionalized process to support them. Article by Amb. (ret.) Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace in Policy Options, ...
Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited on 27 January 2021 to participate in an online panel discussion organized by the Inter-Parlamentary Union (IPU) on the ...
Martin Dahinden, former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States and Member of the ICT4Peace Foundation Board and Sara Pangrazzi, PhD candidate of the University of Zurich published on 30 ...
The Revised Pre-draft Report by the OEWG Chair of the UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Cybersecurity of May 2020 represents further progress in the effort to define an outcome of the OEWG in ...
ICT4Peace is honoured to have been part of the discussion of a Non-Paper with proposals on the Future of the EU Cyberdiplomacy, prepared by the German Federal Foreign Office in ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher has been invited to address the Plenary Session of the Russian National Association for International Information Security on the topic: «Partnership of State, Business and Civil Society ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce the successful completion of the new 5 Days Online Training Course for Government Officials from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands from 30 November – 4 December 2020 in ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce the successful completion of the new 5 Days Online Training Course for Government Officials from East African Countries from 23 – 27 November 2020. This online pilot ...
It is more than a question of health – the need to protect critical infrastructure “It is not in the public interest if those possessing offensive cyber capabilities, believe ...
On August 26, 2020 at the initiative of Indonesia that month’s President of the UN Security Council, an informal “Arria formula” meeting was held. The theme was broadly the protection ...
Together with the Permanent Missions of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs (ODA) in Geneva and New York, ...
ICT4Peace Senior Advisor Anne-Marie Buzatu sat down with Ambassador Paul Meyer in the first of a series of interviews with ICT4Peace’s team members and partners. They discussed a wide range ...
Disconnects in state cyber behaviour: Accountability for attacks on Critical Infrastructure Last October, ICT4Peace launched a “Call to Governments on Offensive Cyber Operations and Critical Infrastructure” . This initiative was ...
Accountability: the missing ingredient in the comments by states on the OEWG draft report In reviewing the extensive commentary on the Chair’s “Pre-draft” report on the UN Open Ended Working ...
Amb. Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor of ICT4Peace on 29 April 2020 gave a statement at Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade public UN Cyber Consultation Meeting (see the Agenda of ...
Considerable investments into Cybersecurity Institution and Capacity Building Programs in Developing Countries and LDCs have been made in recent years by Governments, Inter-governmental Organisations, Academia, Civil Society and the Business Sector. ...
ICT4Peace has been supporting the UN Cybersecurity Negotiations at the Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) with substantive inputs since the launch of the negotiations in the fall of 2019 (more ...
In view of the ongoing UN Negotiations (UN OEWG and UN GGE) ICT4Peace Proposed [1] a State “Cyber Peer Review Mechanism” for state-conducted foreign cyber operations. It has been generally acknowledged that some ...
Second Substantive Session of the Open-Ended Working Group As part of the ICT4Peace delegation to the Open-Ended Working Group on information and communication technologies, Dr. Elaine Korzak, along with Dr. ...
As part of the UN Secretary General’s Digital Cooperation Recommendations Follow-Up Process, to which ICT4Peace has contributed the following Reflections and Recommendations , ICT4Peace has been invited to participate as one ...
Statement by ICT4Peace to Second OEWG session February 10-14, 2020, UN HQ Along with the Media Foundation for West Africa, Association for Progressive Communications, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Access ...
In View of the commencing second substantive Session UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Cybersecurity Meeting from 10 to 14 February 2020, the ICT4Peace Foundation is happy to recall the ...
Amb. Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Fellow in International Security, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace, has prepared the following submission to Australia’s Consultations ...
In preparation of the next Round of negotiations on Cybersecurity by the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) (A/RES/73/27) from 10 to 14 February 2020 and by the UN Governmental Group of ...
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 ...
Early 2018, ICT4Peace published a report: “Trust and Attribution in Cyberspace: A proposal for an independent network of organisations engaging in attribution peer review”. The report can be found here. ...
The International Conference on Cyberstability in Moscow took place on 16 and 17 December 2019 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and was hosted by the ...
ICT4Peace has had quite a year! Over the course of 2019, the breadth and complexity of our work can be gleaned through the more than 80 blog posts as well ...
After having participated in the First substantive session of the OEWG – New York, 9-13 September 2019, where ICT4Peace delivered the following statement , along with a written submission of its views, ...
In preparation of the next Round of negotiations on Cybersecurity by the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) (A/RES/73/27) and by the UN Governmental Group of Experts (UN GGE) (A/RES/73/266) from 2 ...
IGF 2019 Liveblog Day 4: Independent Attribution of Cyber-attacks Workshop co-organized by the The Internet Governance Project (IGP) and ICT4Peace and co-chaired by Milton Mueller and Serge Droz. See also our ...
In preparation of the next Round of negotiations on Cybersecurity by the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) (A/RES/73/27) and by the UN Governmental Group of Experts (UN GGE) (A/RES/73/266) from 2 ...
This fall in New York, the United Nations held the first session of a new process to develop norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. Since 1998, the UN has ...
On behalf of the Swiss Government, the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and the African Union, ICT4Peace is honoured to organise on 27 November 2019 a Capacity Building Workshop on Cybersecurity ...
At IGF 2019 in Berlin, on Friday, November 29, 12:00 – 13:00, ICT4Peace, in cooperation with The Internet Governance Project (IGP) is organising an “Open Work Meeting on Cyber-Accountability: Building ...
Dr. Markus Christen, Head of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich, convened on 24 October 2019 the workshop on “Outlining Future Challenges of Cybersecurity – the CANVAS ...
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, ICT4Peace calls upon governments, especially those possessing offensive cyber capabilities, to publicly confirm that they will respect the norm prohibiting cyber operations directed at critical infrastructure. ...
As part of the ICT4Peace delegation to the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Cybersecurity, Dr. Elaine Korzak, along with Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, attended the week-long session in New York from ...
On 13 September 2019 the first round of negotiations at the UN on Cybersecurity under the UN Open Ended Working Group on Cybersecurity (OEWG) took off in a positive spirit ...
Just in time before the beginning of the work of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Cybersecurity in New York (9 to 13 September), ICT4Peace is welcoming the release by ...
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 ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to publish its submission to the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on ICT and International Security at the UN in New York. Through resolution ...
On July 18, 2019, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technololgy (ZHET) gave a one-hour lecture on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the United Nationals ...
On July 4, 2019 Dr. Eneken Tikk of ICT4Peace, attended the Expert Dialogue on How International Law Applies in Cyberspace organised by the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs in Geneva and ...
On the occasion of the OSCE CBMs Contact Meeting in Vienna, (1-3 July 2019), Dr. Eneken Tikk and Dr. Mika Kerttunen of ICT4Peace presented best practices and recommendations for the ...
On Monday 24 June 2019, Anne-Marie Buzatu Senior Advisor for ICT4Peace attended the event Unpacking the High-Level Panel’s Report: Contributions from Geneva hosted by the Geneva Internet Platform, in conjunction with ...
At a time when the UN is starting two new diplomatic processes to develop further norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, ICT4Peace is disturbed to learn of alleged actions ...
This is the fourth edition of Eneken Tikk’s Cyber Norms Blogposts. This series of articles is published on a monthly basis in 2019. In these posts Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior ...
In December 2018, the General Assembly established another UN GGE on Cybersecurity and for the first time a UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the same topic. ICT4Peace recently published ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and the Cyber Law Centre at Korea University under the leadership of Prof. PARK Nohyoung organised a panel on “Prospects and Challenges of Developing International Cybersecurity Norms ...
This is the third edition of Eneken Tikk’s Cyber Norms Blogposts. In these posts Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor ICT4Peace Foundation, offers her insights on the international cyber norms dialogue ...
On behalf of ICT4Peace, Regina Surber and Emanuel Teicher participated at the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva, 25-29 March ...
After in Vientiane in 2016, in Hanoi in 2017 and in Siem Reap in 2018, the 4th ICT4Peace Senior Level Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Workshop for CLMV Countries was held ...
ICTPeace was invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) to participate in a Workshop with Parliamentarians from the OAS on (27-28 February 2019) on Cybersecurity and Strengthening Democratic Processes ...
This is the second edition of Eneken Tikk’s Cyber Norms Blogposts. This series of articles is published on a monthly basis in 2019. In these posts Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior ...
In 2019, Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor ICT4Peace Foundation, will offer her insights on the international cyber norms dialogue in monthly posts. These Cyber Norms Blogposts will highlight normative contributions ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to present for the consideration of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation some insights, observations and recommendations based on over ten years of a close, ...
2018 served to acutely remind us of the essential fragility of that initial idea the pioneers of the Internet had around bringing humanity together by connecting them. From the start ...
In 2017, discussions broke down in a UN group of government experts about guarantees of peace and security in the context of the use of information and communication technologies by ...
ICT4peace, in cooperation with the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), is proud to announce its most recent paper Human security in the age of AI: Securing and empowering ...
Dr. Serge Droz and Dr. Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace were invited to participate in a panel discussion on 20 November 2018, organised and moderated by Quendresa Hoxha of the Swiss ...
Dr. Serge Droz and Daniel Stauffacher participated in the ICRC Symposium on Digital Risks in Situations of Armed Conflict on 11 & 12 December. The program, “Digital Risks in Situations of Armed ...
ICTs and Human Rights Chaired by a woman, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Committee at the United Nations tasked with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) finished its work in ...
Access our email update, ‘ICT4Peace proposal for an independent incident attribution mechanism and an analysis of recent developments on norms building’, here.
Most nations share the view that existing international legal rules and ordinances hold in cyberspace. Enforcement of these standards, however, is difficult. Malicious cyber activities are usually shrouded in secrecy ...
At the invitation of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor of the Foundation, prepared his analysis of the most recent developments at the United Nations and elsewhere regarding the ...
On behalf of ICT4Peace Foundation, Dr Eneken Tikk attended the Geneva International Law Day, organised by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and was one of the panelists to ...
By Amb. Paul Meyer A fragile consensus over norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, as Paul Meyer observes, has fallen victim to East–West geopolitical tensions. Paul Meyer is Senior ...
ICT4peace is pleased to report that over 100,000 people have already signed the Digital Peace Now Petition that ICT4Peace has helped launch together with Microsoft, Civicus, Observer Research Foundation and ...
Today President Macron of France is officially launching the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. ICT4Peace has been an early supporter of this important global initiative and provided ...
ICT4Peace was invited for the second time to attend the Wuzhen World Internet Conference. In the workshop “Norms in Cyberspace: Practises and Explorations”, organised by the China Institutes of Contemporary ...
ICT4Peace welcomes the Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace, a new initiative of the Swiss Government in Geneva. “The Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace aims to map ...
ICT4Peace is proud to be a founding Advisory Board Member of Digital Peace Campaign initiated by Microsoft and announced at the Global Citizen Festival, Central Park, New York. Early September 2018 ...
In cooperation with the Mission of Finland to the United Nations in New York, ICT4Peace is conducting a workshop on the question of practical implementation of the UN GGE recommendations ...
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 ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to be part of the Integrity, Safety, and Conflict Roundtable held at Facebook’s HQ in Menlo Park, from 17-18 September 2018. ...
Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace was invited by the Government of Korea to present at and moderate the 4th Plenary Session Panel at the Seoul Defense Dialogue: “Cyber Security: Strengthening Mutual ...
Ambassador (ret) Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor of ICT4Peace in the workshop “Cybersecurity Challenges in the Government Sphere – Ethical, Legal and Technical Aspects” held in Bern September 5-6. The workshop ...
After in Vientiane in 2016 and in Hanoi in 2017, the 3rd ICT4Peace Senior Level Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Workshop for CLMV Countries was held in Siem Reap, from 6 ...
The World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity had its inaugural “Global CERT Advisory Board” Meting in Geneva. ICT4Peace is proud to be part of this important initiative. ICT4Peace’s Senior Adviser ...
It is the third year that the ICT4Peace Foundation is taking part at discussions on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the ...
The Swiss government is currently working on implementing a cybersecurity competence center and has recently presented the first measures to be taken. ICT4Peace has followed this process closely and is ...
On 9 July 2018, Dr. Serge Droz, Member of the Board, First and Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace was invited by the ITU to participate in the ITU GSR Thematic Event on ...
On the occasion of the official launch on 6 July 2018 in Berlin of the ICT4Peace supported first international Commentary on Norms of Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace, friends and ...
ICT4Peace was again invited by the Government of Singapore and its Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) to co-organise the 2nd ASEAN Cyber Norms Workshop on 26 and 27 June ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the first Global Commentary on “Voluntary, Non-Binding Norms for Responsible State Behaviour in the Use of Information and Communications Technology” published by the ...
ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) participated in the UN Meeting (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS) in Geneva from 9 to 13 April 2018. ICT4Peace ...
Representatives of the Chinese Think Tank China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) visited ICT4Peace Foundation in Zurich on 9 and 10 April 2018 to discuss areas of ongoing and ...
On 7 March 2018, Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace has been invited to make a presentation on Cyber Security to Swiss Parliamentarians in Bern. His presentation can be found here. ...
ICT4Peace has been invited by the Governments of the UK, Japan and Brunei to support the holding of a workshop on Cybersecurity Policy, Programmes and Diplomacy with ASEAN countries in ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited on 17 December 2017 to join a well attended panel discussion on “The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention in Times of Cyber(In)Security” regarding Microsoft’s ...
In June 2016 ICT4Peace co-launched with Leiden University’s Program for Cyber Norms a global open consultation on how to implement the Recommendations of United Nations’ Group of Governmental Experts on Developments ...
ICT4Peace moderated Panel on Norms for Peace and Security in Cyberspace at Wuzhen Summit – World Internet Conference (WIC) ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited to join the World Internet Conference ...
Read about our recent work on Promoting International Law and Norms of Responsible Behavior in Cyberspace here.
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 ...
ICT4Peace presenting on Peace and Cybersecurity in Cyberspace at Global Parlaments Meeting (IPU) in St. Petersburg ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) to present on ...
ICT4Peace, in cooperation with the Vietnam Government’s Computer Emergency Response Teams (VNCert) organised on 12 and 13 October 2017 the 2nd Senior Level Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Workshop ...
On 20 June 2017 ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher and Paul Meyer released a commentary: “WannaCry, the Digital Geneva Convention and the urgent need for Cyber Peace”. This commentary was subsequently published ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to attend Crisis Code: Humanitarian Protection in the Digital Age, a two-day conference exploring how crisis-affected populations can be safeguarded ...
ICT4Peace’s Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher were invited in September 2017 to lecture at the ETH Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Governance and Administration Course, of the Swiss School ...
ICT4Peace is honoured to have been invited to co-launch with Leiden University’s Program for Cyber Norms, the global open consultation on how to implement the United Nations’ Group of Governmental ...
Download this commentary as a PDF here. ### A commentary by Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor and Daniel Stauffacher, President, ICT4Peace Foundation The mass assault of the “WannaCry” malware that holds ...
The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore, in collaboration with ICT4Peace Foundation, held the inaugural ASEAN Cyber Norms Workshop in Singapore from 8 to 9 May 2017 under the auspices ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Mission of Switzerland to the European Union and the Mission of Switzerland to NATO in Brussels to moderate a high-level panel on “Geopolitics ...
On 20 February 2017 ICT4Peace organised a workshop at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in support of the UN Group of Governmental Experts (UN GGE) on Developments in the ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Security Council and Ministry of Digital Economy of the Kingdom of Thailand had invited ICT4Peace to contribute to the Regional Workshop on Cybersecurity: ...
ICT4Peace was invited by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna to conduct a workshop on 14 and 15 December 2016 for OSCE field staff on ...
On 28 November 2016, the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to brief the members of the UN Security Council on Cybersecurity and International Peace and Security. The first ever Arrias Formula ...
In cooperation with the Government of the Lao PDR, ICT4Peace organised it’s Workshop on Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy in Vientiane for the CLMV Countries Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Over ...
ICT4Peace was invited on 5 October 2016 to make a presentation on cybersecurity capacity building at a side event of UN General Assembly First Committee. This Committee deals with disarmament, ...
ICT4Peace was invited to participate in Munich Security Conference’s (MSC) Cybersecurity Summit Silicon Valley 2016 on 19 and 20 September 2016. When discussing the issue of capacity building in Cybersecurity, ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited to give a lecture on “International Governance for Peace and Security in Cyberspace” at the Summer School of the Swiss Study Foundation organised in collaboration ...
ICT4Peace was invited by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, to make a presentation on Peace and Security in the cyberspace at the International Conference on Science for Peace in Kuala ...
Preparing for the next UN GGE: ICT4Peace at Cybersecurity Workshop in Beijing ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China and ...
During the month of June ICT4Peace participated in a number of events related to its global project on ICT and international peace and security. These included UNIDIR’s Annual Cyber Stability ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Lions Club Zurich Metropole to give a presentation on 7 June 2016 on the mission of the ICT4Peace Foundation as a policy and ...
The G7 summit meeting hosted by Japan May 26-27 2016 issued a document entitled “G7 Principles and Actions on Cyber”. The text contains strong commitments in the field of human ...
Building Capacities for Cyber Security Negotiations The ICT4Peace Foundation is honoured to co-organize the Cyber Security Policy and Diplomacy Workshop with the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) on 14 ...
As a follow up to the ICT4Peace workshop on Capacity Building for International Cyber Security Negotiations at the AU, co-organized with African Union Commission on 15 and 16 February in ...
As part of its Capacity Building Program for International Cyber Security Negotiations, ICT4Peace organised in cooperation with the African Union Commission the first cybersecurity policy and diplomacy workshop at The ...
Review fails to address the need for Peace in cyberspace Press Release On December 16, 2015 the UN General Assembly issued an outcome document for its review of implementation of ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by Dr. Daniel Woker, Ambassador-in-Residence at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law (ES-HSG) of the University of St.Gallen to give a lecture on the ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation was in invited to participate in the 12th International Information Security Research Consortium Conference (IISRC Conference), which was hosted by the Korea University Law School on 2 ...
As part of its Capacity Building Program for International Cyber Security Negotiations, ICT4Peace organized the first cybersecurity policy and diplomacy workshop for ASEAN countries on 19 and 20 October 2015 ...
ICT4Peace is honoured to announce that its acclaimed paper BASELINE REVIEW of ICT-RELATED PROCESSES & EVENTS has been published in the Chinese language as part of its cooperation with the ...
Hosted by the Government of Singapore, ICT4Peace, in cooperation with RSIS, is organising a cybersecurity policy and diplomacy course in Singapore (19 – 20 October 2015) for the ASEAN Countries. ...
On 27 September 2015 ICT4Peace participated in the UN Summit on the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and contributed to the Interactive ...
ICT4Peace is honoured to have been invited by the President of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Mogens Lykketoft to participate in an interactive panel on “Building effective, accountable and inclusive ...
On 17 September 2015, ICT4Peace was invited to participate in an Expert-Workshop “White Paper 2016 on Cyber Security“ in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Defence, the University ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited to participate in the Cyber Security Roundtable of Munich Security Conference (MSC) in New York on 8 September 2015. Kim Won-soo, UN Under Secretary-General and ...
The latest report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) concerned with “Developments in the field of Information and Telecommunications in the context of International Security”) was published in ...
Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited on 20 July 2015 by US Ambassador to the OSCE Daniel Baer, Chair of the OSCE Informal Working Group (IWG) on Confidence ...
ICT4Peace was invited by The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research to participate in its 2015 Cyber Stability Conference entitled “Regime Coherence” on 9 July 2015, Palais des Nations, in ...
On 20 May 2015 ICT4Peace was invited by the OSCE and the Government of Uzbekistan to participate in a national workshop in Tashkent on Regional and International Cyber/ICT Security, use ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited on 4 and 5 May 2015 to address the United Nations member states in Geneva, where he called again for the Use of Information and ...
On 23 April 2015, ICT4Peace was invited by the German Federal Foreign Office to discuss international cybersecurity affairs and to give a presentation on the work and mandate by ICT4Peace ...
On 21 April 2015, Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace was invited to give a presentation on the “Role of Civil Society, Private Sector and Academia in furthering Confidence Building Measures ...
Seeking to contribute to the international dialogue on norms for responsible behavior in cyberspace, ICT4Peace, with the support of the Dutch Government, organized a series of workshops and research notes ...
Discussions on the applicability of existing international norms of responsible state behaviour to cyberspace are on-going within the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information ...
Also on the occasion of the Global Conference on Cyberspace April 2015 in the Hague Netherlands, ICT4Peace is pleased to announce that it’s publication on the Role of Civil Society ...
Upon invitation and with the support by the Government of the Netherlands, the ICT4Peace Foundation is honoured to organise a half day training Course on International Cybersecurity Diplomacy on 15 April 2015 in The ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is honored to have been invited by the Government of Kenya to co-host the first regional training workshop in Africa (2 to 3 March 2015) on International ...
On 20-21 January 2015, the ICT4Peace Foundation organised a workshop hosted by ETH on ‘Cybersecurity Processes and Events.’ The objective of the workshop was to set the parameters for its ...
10 January 2014: The ICT4Peace Foundation is honoured to have been invited to join the The Geneva Internet Platform, the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN, DCAF, the GCSP, DiploFoundation, ...
Dear Friends and Colleagues, 2014 has again been a busy year for all those working on ICTs to safe lives and protect human dignity as well as to maintain international ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation and the Organisation of American States (OAS) conducted a first of its kind “Workshop on International Security and Diplomacy in Cyberspace” with over 50 participants (Diplomats, Security and ...
Ambassador (ret.) Paul Meyer (Moderator) and Dr. Eneken Tikk (on the far right) ICT4Peace, along with a number of representatives from think-tanks, academia, civil society organisations and the private sector ...
ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to contribute to the Workshop on Regional Cybersecurity Policies organised by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) and Organisation of American States (OAS) on 22 to 24 ...
Daniel Stauffacher from the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to participate in the Sino-European Cyber Dialogue (SECD) convened on 25-26 September 2014 in Beijing, China, following the first meeting in Geneva ...
Francois Nordmann, one of the senior most Swiss diplomats in recent times, former Ambassador to France, United Kingdom, UNESCO and The Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and ...
In 2013, representing a major breakthrough in what had heretofore been difficult negotiations, a UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ...
ICT4Peace Capacity Building for International Cyber Security Diplomacy – Promoting Openness, Prosperity Trust and Security in Cyberspace 1 September 2014, Geneva, Switzerland: ICT4Peace is pleased to announce, that is has launched ...
The Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore has invited Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace to participate in an international workshop on ...
On 19 June 2012 ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by Oxford University’s Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT (FRRIICT) Project to participate in a panel discussion at the ...
In preparation of the Review of the outcome of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003 in Geneva and 2005 in Tunis by the UN General Assembly ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Department of Arms Control and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, P.R. China to chair a panel at the Senior-level International Workshop on Information ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce its latest publication ‚‘Baseline Review of ICT-Related Processes and Events: Implications for International and Regional Security’ by Camino Kavanagh, Tim Maurer and Eneken Tikk-Ringas. Download ...
On 21 March 2014, former Ambassadors Daniel Stauffacher (Switzerland) and Paul Meyer (Canada) from the ICT4Peace Foundation, were invited by Director-General Michael Moller, United Nations Office at Geneva for an Executive ...
On 10 February 2014, Daniel Stauffacher, President of the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to make a presentation at the United Nations Office in Geneva on the topic of Preventing Cyber ...
Dear Colleagues, 2013 has again been an eventful year for the ICT4Peace Foundation, not only in its work helping the UN and the international community to improve crisis information management ...
Image courtesy ABC News. The ICT4Peace Foundation was sent the following paper which we found extremely interesting, and with the permission of the author, is pleased to publish on our ...
The second day of ICCM 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya began with a panel hosted and moderated by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation (read What’s so Big about Big ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation, as part of its ongoing work on Cybersecurity and Resilient Internet has called for enhanced cooperation among states to promote a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative ICT ...
ICT4Peace organized a special session at the Seoul Conference on Cyberspace on 17 October 2013 at the COEX Conference Center to discuss how the international and regional cybersecurity processes can ...
ICT4Peace is organizing a special session at the Seoul Conference on Cyberspace on 17 October 2013 at the COEX Conference Center to discuss how the international and regional cybersecurity processes ...
ICT4Peace took root in 2003 with a pioneering research on the role of ICTs in preventing, responding to and recovering from conflict that led, two years later to the adoption ...
For several decades, international relations and strategic studies scholars have sought to develop a better understanding of the transformation and diffusion of power and its impact on strategic and international ...
ICT4Peace experts have called since 2004 for more robust international cooperation among states against threats resulting from the malicious use of ICTs to reduce risk and enhance security and to ...
Report on ICT4Peace International Dialogue on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) and International Cyber Security – ETH Zurich, 20 to 21 June 2013. On 20 and 21 June 2013, the ICT4Peace ...
Zurich, 20 and 21 June 2013 ETH ZURICH With the support of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Schwyzer-Stiftung, the ICT4Peace Foundation (www.ict4peace.org) hosted on 20 and 21 June ...
An overview of global and regional processes, agendas and instruments by ICT4Peace Foundation Download the report in full here. The world is facing a new challenge that is here to ...
Dear colleagues and friends, While 2011 was the year marked by the Arab Awakening and increasing awareness of ICTs for peace building, protection of human dignity and crisis management, in ...
Image courtesy TechChange ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher participated in a Symposium at Harvard University (6-8 December 2012) on “Internet-Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points”, co-hosted by the Harvard Berkman Center ...
Image courtesy chinamil.com.cn/Zhang Zhe Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace participated in the Fourth Xiangshan Forum (Beijing, 16 to 18 November 2012) entitled “Asia-Pacific Security: New Issues and New Ideas”. The aim of ...
‘Jaw Jaw’ is better than ‘War War’: International Security in Cyberspace[1] by Paul Meyer[2] “Jaw Jaw is better than War War” is Winston Churchill’s famous maxim concerning the desirability of ...
Dr. Eneken Tikk and Amb. Paul Meyer participated for ICT4Peace in the Budapest Conference on Cyberspace 2012 on 4 and 5 October 2012. The Budapest Conference is part of a ...
A report on the use of Information and Communications Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations.
With the UN General Assembly convening next week for the third time the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to address threats to international information security in the Disarmament and International ...
Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace and Ambassador Paul Meyer have published an Op-ed on 23 July in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called “Disarmament Negotiations for the Cyberspace are needed”. The ...
Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation, gave a keynote adress on 12 July 2012 at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, on “Reconciling Westphalia and Cyberspace: ICT and ...
ICT4Peace President Daniel Stauffacher was very pleased to meet with Commissioner Ms. Mignon Clyburn of the US Federal Telecommunications Commission during WSIS 2012 in Geneva. The bilateral meeting allowed explaining ...
An interview with Daniel Stauffacher by www.unimondo.org (OneWorld Italy) Available also here. Mappe interattive che segnalano focolai di violenza elaborate a partire da segnalazioni via sms e internet. Video educativi ...
GENEVA SECURITY FORUM 2012 Geneva Dialogue on Cybersecurity Protecting Critical Infrastructure against Cyberattacks In partnership with the Swiss Ministry of Defence, East West Institute and ICT4Peace Press Release 17 April ...
In this latest paper by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the authors have called for a non-binding code of conduct to strengthen cyber-security and mitigate the threat of growing cyber-security threats. The ...
28 November, Geneva, Switzerland – Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation, participated as a member of the Futurict project team in the EU FET Flagship Pilots Midterm Conference, 24-25 November 2011, ...
See larger version of the NZZ article as JPG here or as PDF here. The ICT for Peace Foundation called for a International Code of Conduct to prevent cyber-conflicts by ...
CrisisMappers has posted in two parts the speech delivered by Dr. Choi Soon-hong, the UN Secretariat’s Chief Information Technology Office (CITO) at the CrisisMapping conference held in Boston earlier this ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to participate at the African Union (AU) High‐Level Retreat on the promotion of peace, security and stability in Africa (Cairo 26 – 28 August 2010). Under the ...
Promotion of a secure and peaceful cyberspace: A prerequisite for crisis information management and protection of human dignity An open, free and sustainable internet cannot be taken for granted and ...
Articles that appeared on NZZ in print and online, featuring an interview with the President of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Daniel Stauffacher: «Technologie rettet Leben» and an Article by Eric Gujer, ...
Article by Eric Gujer, Editor in Chief of NZZ on the role of social media in Crisis Management: Schwarm-Intelligenz und Rudel-Blödsinn.
The ICT4Peace Foundation features in an article and interview in one of the leading German language newspapers, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), on the role of new Information and communication technologies ...
“ICT4Peace is the belief, supported by a growing body of practitioners globally, that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) including mobile phones help in all aspects of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Much ...
The Geneva Security Forum is a unique annual two-day international security conference, showcase and training centre in Geneva, Switzerland. Held in June each year, the gathering is a top-level forum ...
The Geneva Security Forum (GSF) is a unique annual two-day international security conference, showcase and training centre in Geneva, Switzerland. Held in June each year, the gathering will be a ...
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Proceedings of the 6th International Security Forum Date : 6 October 2004 Organizer : International relations and Security Network. The proceedings of the 6th International Security Forum have been published ...
Addressing Externality Costs of Misinformation in the Digital Age
In this new report and submission to the United Nations, ICT4Peace considers the ad-revenue models of social media platforms that amplify misinformation and generate externality costs and proposes innovative solutions ...