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WSIS Action Line Facilitation Meeting:

Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs (C5)

“Partnerships for Global Cybersecurity”

15 – 16 May 2006


Room B, ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

Meeting open to all WSIS Stakeholders

MEETING AGENDA

MONDAY 15 MAY, 2006

   
08:30–09:30 Registration
Registration in the ITU Montbrillant Building (2, Rue de Varembé), meeting held in Room B (ITU Tower Building)
09:30–10:00 Session 1: Meeting Opening and Welcome (audio archive)

Opening of the Meeting

  • Welcoming Address: Roberto BLOIS (biography), Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
      o Welcoming Address
     
  • Chairman's Opening Remarks: Stein SCHJOLBERG (biography), Chief Judge, Moss District Court, Norway, & Editor, Cybercrimelaw.net
10:00–10:45 Session 2: WSIS-from Geneva to Tunis (audio archive)
Session Chair: Stein SCHJOLBERG (biography), Chief Judge, Moss District Court, Norway, & Editor, Cybercrimelaw.net
 
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session 3: Beyond WSIS - Action Line C5 and Actors (audio archive)

Session Chair: Stein SCHJOLBERG (biography), Chief Judge, Moss District Court, Norway, & Editor, Cybercrimelaw.net

Session Description: For the multi-stakeholder implementation process which is a foundation stone of the Summit, the Annex to the Tunis Agenda attributes responsibility for facilitating implementation in each of the eleven WSIS Action Lines to UN bodies and specialised agencies. This session reviews the background of Action Line C5: “Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs” and takes a broad look at how a number of countries have begun programmes to address cybersecurity and critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP).

  • Speaker: Robert SHAW (biography), Deputy Head, Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU), ITU, “WSIS: Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs”
      o  Presentation
     
  • Speaker: Isabelle ABELE-WIGERT (biography), Research Fellow, Center of Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, co-author of the International Critical Information Infrastructure (CIIP) Protection Handbook (2006)
     
    o   Presentation
  • Discussion

Panel discussion among the above-mentioned speakers moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor.

   
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 4: Perspectives on Promoting Global Cybersecurity (audio archive)
Session Chair: Seymour GOODMAN (biography), Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America

Session Description: A globally interconnected network means that cybersecurity cannot be effectively addressed by individual nations; it requires a combined effort by all countries worldwide. Session 4 aims at sharing perspectives on how cybersecurity and critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP) might be approached from national, regional and international perspectives.

Panel discussion among the above-mentioned speakers moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor.

   
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 5: National Legal Approaches and International Legal Coordination for Global Cybersecurity (audio archive)
Stein SCHJOLBERG (biography), Chief Judge, Moss District Court, Norway, & Editor, Cybercrimelaw.net

Session Description:

  • Speaker: Stein SCHJOLBERG (biography), Chief Judge, Moss District Court, Norway, & Editor, Cybercrimelaw.net
      o  Presentation  
     
  • Speaker: Betty-Ellen SHAVE (biography), Senior Counsel/Coordinator for International Computer Crime Matters, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Department of Justice, United States of America
      o  Presentation 
     
  • Speaker: Margaret KILLERBY ((biography), Head of the Department of Crime Problems, Council of Europe
      o  Presentation
     
  • Speaker: Marc GOODMAN (biography), Senior Advisor, Interpol Steering Committee on Information Technology Crime, Interpol
      o  Presentation
     
  • Discussion

Panel discussion among the above-mentioned speakers moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor.

 

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