Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Security, Openness and Privacy
Main theme question address by workshop: Question 1: What impact can security and governance issues have on the Internet and human rights?
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
This workshop will look at the synergistic relationship between cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties and highlight measures that achieve all three objectives. In many ways, privacy and civil liberties are enhanced by cybersecurity measures that protect networks and ensure the reliability, resiliency, and integrity of the Internet. The discussion with experts and participants in this workshop will look at what those important cybersecurity measures can be, and how to work with all stakeholders to ensure the necessary environment to enable cybersecurity, privacy, and civil liberties to protect individuals as they utilize the dynamic and empowering medium that is the Internet. Trust and confidence are engines of Internet growth, and Internet growth provides for more people to communicate across the globe at Internet speed. The workshop will address the mechanisms that already exist that provide for cybersecurity, privacy, and civil liberties and identify areas where more can be done by all stakeholders in their own domain and in collaboration with others. Speakers will represent the full spectrum of stakeholders in business, government, and the civil liberties community and will address both the practical day to day operational needs and strategic goals to achieve the synergies of cybersecurity, privacy, and civil liberties that will ensure that environment of trust and confidence. The workshop will include remarks from experts from around the world with significant time for participant interaction and dialogue to ensure a truly informative discussion.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
TechAmerica (business)
Council of Europe (International organization)
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
• Representative from global business
• Representative from law enforcement
• Representative from civil society
• Representatives from governments
• Representative from technical community
(speakers are currently being invited and will be provided as soon as possible)
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
Anders Halvorsen, WITSA