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Concluding session of the UN Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime
2024-01-29 - 2024-02-09 | United Nations, 760 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, 10017-6818, United States
Event description
The UN Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime will hold its concluding session from 29 January to 9 February 2024 in New York, the United States of America.
The Ad Hoc Committee has been tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the misuse of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes. In order to fulfil its mandate, the committee will hold six sessions from August 2021 to the end of June 2024 and the concluding session in 2024; the committee’s work will be concluded once it presents a draft convention to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session in September 2024.
For more information about the event, and what to expect please visit the Digital Watch Observatory

2024 Master/PGD in Contemporary Diplomacy workshop
2024-01-29 - 2024-02-12 | Online
Event description
Diplo and the University of Malta will host a two-week introductory workshop for the 2024 Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy, starting on 29 January 2024.
The workshop includes a range of diplomacy-related sessions delivered by experienced practitioners. Topics included in this year’s workshop:

Geopolitics, international order, and foreign policy
The future of multilateralism
Negotiation skills
Power in humanitarian action
Presentation skills
Building relations
Governing AI
Cybersecurity diplomacy
Tech diplomacy
Research methods and academic writing

The introductory workshop focuses on building skills for various policy and diplomacy processes. It sets the stage for the entire programme in which the participants will get to know other course participants and faculty members, providing a new professional network that will be of high value for their current and future work.
