The journey to digital trust
Bring trust and humanize the digital world
ICON is a Non Gouvernemental Organisation that federates aan international community working on trust in cyberspace.
The common objective is to bring about a conscious reaction through translation, vulgarization and decodage of the information society for the civil society. ICON carries out concrete actions and exploration for future generations in the field of new technologies with a focus on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
- Understanding cyberspace today and tomorrow
- Raise citizens' awareness of technical and societal issues
- Promote innovation, research and development in digital trust with a focus on cybersecurity and AI
- Strengthening dialogue between citizens, defence companies and institutions
Lennig PEDRON
President ICON NGO, Program Manager at Fondation EPFL Innovation Park (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Founding member at
cyber-safe.ch
#Hacker4Good, Lennig has expertise in cybersecurity applied to the digital trust economy. She is co-founder and President of the ICON NGO, based in Geneva at the heart of international organizations and on the EPFL Innovation Park campus in Lausanne. ICON brings together an international community of experts working on trust in cyberspace, with a focus on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and blockchain. The NGO has created a tool called "KIDS4CYBER" which is made available to citizens to help raise awareness with the youth generation to the challenges and dangers of the Internet:
https://icon.ngo/fr/educationLennig Pedron specializes in the "human factor" and she is an advisor and a trainer to various audiences such as the EPFL Innovation Park Foundation, prosecutors, Police, industry, banks, medical professionals and also to the youth generations.She was the director of a Swiss company with a cybersecurity R&D laboratory. She is also a founding member of the Swiss label Cyber-Safe.ch.In 2018, Lennig created a summer school to reflect on responsible behaviours in cyberspace, which led to a meeting of 25 stakeholders at the Peace House of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, including the UN, the High Panel on Digital Cooperation, ITU, ISOC, ICANN, governments, academics including the University of Geneva, the INGO Conference, civil society, private individuals (Microsoft, Airbus, Quantum ID...)Lennig represents ICON at the Council of Europe. In 2019, she opened the conference of the General Assembly of the European Commission (CEN CENELEC) at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum. She was also a judge for the GCSP (Geneva Centre for Security Policy) geopolitical and cybersecurity challenge.
