Events for September 16 - April 9

[Briefing #81] What’s in store for digital policy in 2022?

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Join us for the next IG Briefing, on Tuesday, 22nd February, at 13.00 UTC (14.00 CET). Register Read the article: 10 Digital Diplomacy and Governance Trends for 2022 Event description As is now tradition, our first briefing of the year will focus on predictions for the year ahead of us. What lies in store for [...]

New regular cyber-dialogue at the UN: Mapping our expectations with reality

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Kaspersky is back with season two of their series Community Talks on Cyber Diplomacy. Season two continues to focus on helping the private sector and technical community to learn more about the UN cyber dialogue (the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG)), and how they could support UN member states in maintaining international security and peace. [...]

Traversing the Metaverse: A Caribbean Perspective

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In recent months, the term ‘metaverse’ has generated much discussion globally, and has become one of the latest tech buzzwords. The term gained even greater prominence with the rebranding of Facebook to Meta. In addition, the Government of Barbados also announced in 2021 that it would establish an embassy in the Metaverse, making it [...]

7th Geneva Engage Awards – What is Geneva’s digital footprint?

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The annual Geneva Engage Awards recognise International Geneva actors in their social media outreach and online engagement. Geneva Engage examines Geneva’s global footprint by looking at social media engagement of Geneva-based organisations, and Geneva’s web relevance and online meetings. Ultimately, Geneva Engage examines the links between International Geneva and communities from around the world [...]

GFCE Report Launch: “Pre-University Cyber Security Education: developing cyber skills amongst children and young people”

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The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) is launching the report “Pre-University Cyber Security Education: developing cyber skills amongst children and young people”. The report was written by Krysia Emily Waldock, Vince Miller, Shujun Li and Virginia Franquiera from the University of Kent, and was commissioned through the GFCE Global Cyber Capacity Building Research Agenda [...]

Digital Technologies and the Environment: a Synergy for the Future

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Digital technologies can amplify efforts to mitigate climate change and, as such, are becoming part of environmental and digital policies on the national and international levels. Most global policies from international bodies, the European Union (EU), the US, and Germany substantially reflect on the issues related to the nexus of environmental and digital developments. [...]

[Briefing #82] Internet governance in February 2022

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Join us for February’s Digital Watch Internet Governance Briefing on Tuesday, 22nd February, at 8 am (14.00 CET). Registrations are open Register Catch up on the major internet governance and digital policy updates from all around the globe and join our experts as they analyse the existing and emerging policy trends. Register [...]

International digital standards: Stepping up the engagement of stakeholders from the ARIN region

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Event date: 22 February 2022, 10:00–11:00 EST, onlineThis event is addressed to stakeholders in the ARIN service region (national and regional standard development organisations, governmental entities, industry, the technical community, academia, and civil society groups with an interest in digital standards.) Registrations are open Register Standards for digital technologies are all around us, enabling devices to interact [...]

Towards a more diverse international standardisation landscape – Motivations and actions for stakeholders in the ARIN region

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Event date: 15 March 2022 | 11:00–11:45 EDT (15:00 - 15:45 UTC), online This event is addressed to stakeholders in the ARIN service region (national and regional standard development organisations, governmental entities, industry, the technical community, academia, and civil society groups with an interest in digital standards.) Registrations are open Register On [...]

Official Geneva presentation of special UNDP report on human security

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Event date: 17 March 2022, 9 am–10:15 am EDT The event, organised by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Geneva office, will serve as Geneva’s official  presentation of the UNDP’s special report titled New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene: Demanding Greater Solidarity. According to this report, [...]