Making the Mauritian cyberspace safe is one of the primary interests to the government. A number of initiatives are being adopted and undertaken by the government to detect, prevent, investigate and prosecute cybercrimes. In line with this, the Mauritian Cybercrime Online Reporting System (MAUCORS) (http://www.maucors.govmu.org) has been established and is operational since March 2018.

MAUCORS is one of the key initiative of the National Cybercrime Strategy that sets out the government’s approach to combat cybercrime in Mauritius. MAUCORS has been developed by CERT-MU, a division of the National Computer Board. It is a centralised system that connects the Computer Emergency Response Team of Mauritius (CERT-MU), the Cybercrime Unit (Mauritius Police Force), the Data Protection Office and the Information Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA). The system allows citizens to report incidents on one platform that can reach out the respective institutions. The system acts as an online one-stop shop for reporting social media incidents such as online harassment, identity theft, cyber bullying, sextortion, online scams.

Since March 2018 – till date, more than 300 incidents have already been reported on MAUCORS.

http://www.maucors.govmu.org

• Mauritius

• Youth
• All citizens of Mauritius

This project may be replicated and be used as a model for other countries.

This project, based on open source software, does not require any additional resources to operate and will remain active in the future, irrespective of any changes in scope or system expansion.

This project helps builds confidence and security in the use of ICTs. Moreover, it is an enabler in capacity building and readily provides access to information and knowledge.