IGF 2018 WS #281 Public-Private-Civil Partnerships in Cyber Capacity Building
Format:
Round Table - 60 Min
Theme:
Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy
Subtheme:
CYBERSECURITY BEST PRACTICES
Organizer 1:
Enrico Calandro
, Research ICT Africa
Organizer 2:
Patryk Pawlak
, EU Institute for Security Studies
Organizer 3:
Margaretha Baayen
, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
Speaker 1:
Daniela Schnidrig
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Speaker 2:
Klée Aiken
, Technical Community, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 3:
Kerry-Ann Barrett
, Intergovernmental Organization, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 4:
Nayia Barmpaliou
, Intergovernmental Organization, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Additional Speakers:
Lucie Krahulcova, Policy Analyst, Access Now, Brussels Office
Catherine Garcia-van Hoogstraten, Lecturer & Researcher in Data Governance, Public Sector Innovation, e-Governance, Cybersecurity, Faculty of Public Management, Law and Security - The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS)
Manon van Tienhoven, Advisor, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
Robert Collett, Head of Capacity Building, Prosperity and Cyber Crime, UK Foreign Office
Relevance:
Cybersecurity capacity building has now permanently entered the policy agenda of major international and regional organisations - such as the UN, ITU, the Commonwealth, the African Union Commission, the European Union, and the Organisation of American States. The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) was created in 2015 with the aim to ensure better coordination between donors and partner countries as well as provide actionable support to countries and regions in need of assistance. In 2017, the GFCE has adopted the Delhi Communiqué on a GFCE Global Agenda for Cyber Capacity Building which establishes a general framework for the GFCE community activities globally. However, after a period of reflection about the policy, the cybersecurity capacity building community is now confronted with practical challenges linked to the implementation of the initiatives. One of the main challenges is to strengthen multistakeholder cooperation on cybersecurity capacity building, in particular through a joint engagement between the governments, the private sector, and civil society organisations. With an increasing involvement of the private sector and CSOs in an area traditionally reserved for the governments, it is essential to reflect on their respective roles and how various types of public-private-civil partnerships (PPCPs) can support this process. This question is particularly pertinent at the time when both governmental and non-governmental organisations compete for resources and expertise.
Session Content:
This session will provide an opportunity for the exchange of views between the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and a broader stakeholder community. Following a brief presentation of the GFCE and the role of the Advisory Board in strengthening cyber capacity building (CCB), the speakers and participants will discuss the ways in which governments, the private sector and civil society organisations can build more effective and sustainable partnerships. In order to strengthen public-private-civil partnerships for cyber capacity building, the main question that this roundtable aims to address is: What lessons can we draw from the current and past engagements between various stakeholders regarding cooperation on cyber capacity building? In addressing this question, the speakers and the audience will be asked to take into account different perspectives, including the regional specificities, linguistic conditions, gender dimension, or the overall nature of stakeholder approaches in a given context. Following the discussion between the panelists, the moderator will open the discussion to the audience members that can either make specific questions to the speakers or to provide their own comments, opinions or to share their own experience. At the same time, questions and contributions are collected from remote participants and are shared in real time with the participants to the roundtable.
Interventions:
The speakers to the panel belong to different stakeholders groups – civil society, academia, technical community, and private sector. In this way, different perspectives on the role of the multi-stakeholder community in cyber capacity building is discussed by different stakeholders groups. The discussant, based on their experience, will be challenged to discuss issues on global cooperation on cyber security, including cyber diplomacy engagements, and multi-stakeholder interests in cyberspace. Chair Patryk Pawlak, Brussels Executive Officer, EU Institute for Security Studies; Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Speakers: Klee Aiken, External Relations Manager, APINIC Daniela Schnidrig, Programme lead, Global Partners DIgital Karry-Ann Barnett, Cyber Security Policy Specialist, Cyber Security Program at the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, Organisation of American States Nayia Barmpaliou, Policy Coordinator / Programme Manager for Cyber and Organised Crime, European Commission
Diversity:
Diversity is taken into account in the selection of discussants, moderators, and organisers. Gender balance is respected and preference is given to women in the panel. Discussants work in developing countries and belong to different stakeholders groups.
Online Participation:
As recommended by the MAG, the organising committee of the Round Table will train an online moderator who will assume responsibility for giving online attendees a separate queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the microphone in the room. The on-site moderator of the round table will keep the online participation session open and will be in close communication with the workshop’s trained online moderator to share the online questions and interventions in the on-site room. The trained online moderator will collect opinions, questions and comments during the roundtable and the most relevant contributions to the discussion will be shared among the participants to the roundtable.
Discussion Facilitation:
The moderators (offline and online) supported by the round table organisers, will involve discussants and the public in the debate, and will facilitate the discussion on the topic of the round table. Specifically, in order to optimise the time and to assure fair participation of both online and offline participants, the debate will unfold in the following way: Suggested Agenda (60 minutes): a. Opening: presentation of the round table and policy questions (5 minutes) b. Panelist remarks (5 minutes each: 20 minutes in total) c. Discussion (20 minutes), including comments and questions from remote participants d. Closing remarks from panelists (2 minutes each: 10 minutes in total) e. Wrap-up (5 minutes)
Onsite Moderator:
EU Institute for Security Studies
Online Moderator:
Research ICT Africa
Rapporteur:
EU Institute for Security Studies
Background Paper
Session Time:
Wednesday, 14 November, 2018 -
11:00
to
12:00
Room:
Salle II

