Session
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Louise Marie Hurel, Royal United Services Institute James Shires, Virtual Routes
Louise Marie Hurel, Royal United Services Institute James Shires, Virtual Routes
Organization's Website
Speakers
To be confirmed
Onsite Moderator
Louise Marie Hurel, Royal United Services Institute
Online Moderator
James Shires, Virtual Routes
Rapporteur
Louise Marie Hurel, Royal United Services Institute, WEOG
SDGs
17.13
17.16
Targets: The session focusses on bringing cross-regional, multistakeholder, and interdisciplinary communities of practice together. In so doing, it’s activities speak directly to SDG 17.16 which seeks to encourage and promote effective multistakeholder partnerships. It also connects to SDG 17.13 through the creation of a space that allows for a discussion that can support enhanced policy coordination and policy coherence in global mechanisms to address systemic issues such as cyber stability and security.
17.16
Targets: The session focusses on bringing cross-regional, multistakeholder, and interdisciplinary communities of practice together. In so doing, it’s activities speak directly to SDG 17.16 which seeks to encourage and promote effective multistakeholder partnerships. It also connects to SDG 17.13 through the creation of a space that allows for a discussion that can support enhanced policy coordination and policy coherence in global mechanisms to address systemic issues such as cyber stability and security.
Format
Roundtable
Opening with organisers explaining the session (10min), followed by 2-3 speakers reflecting on the importance of an inclusive cyber policy network (10min), a speed “dating” session (15min), small-group activities where participants would be invited to reflect on some of the guiding questions outlined in the description (20min), and closing remarks (5min) In preparation for the session: We will be reaching out to other regional experts and the NRI network to ensure that both speakers and attendees reflect the cross-regional and multistakeholder audience for the networking event. We will also continually update the list of speakers as we have more visibility of attendees.
Opening with organisers explaining the session (10min), followed by 2-3 speakers reflecting on the importance of an inclusive cyber policy network (10min), a speed “dating” session (15min), small-group activities where participants would be invited to reflect on some of the guiding questions outlined in the description (20min), and closing remarks (5min) In preparation for the session: We will be reaching out to other regional experts and the NRI network to ensure that both speakers and attendees reflect the cross-regional and multistakeholder audience for the networking event. We will also continually update the list of speakers as we have more visibility of attendees.
Duration (minutes)
60
Description
For the second year in a row, RUSI’s Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour (GP-RCB) and Virtual Routes (VR) are co-organising a networking session to bring the cyber policy community together for a dynamic, diverse and cross-regional exchange on cyber policy topics. The objective of the Cyberpolicy Dialogues is to create an intra-IGF interactive platform for both cybersecurity and Internet Governance communities of practice to connect.
The year of 2025 is a key moment for international cyber policy discussions. It marks the 10th anniversary of the UN norms of responsible cyber behaviour--then agreed in the context of the UN Group of Governmental Experts and the successive resolutions, the 10th anniversary of the historic Obama-Xi agreements on cybersecurity, and the end of the 2021-2025 UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on cybersecurity. As States continue to design the 'rules of the road' for responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, we are faced with an increasingly fractured geopolitical landscape, an increasingly tense relationship between US and China in tech and cybersecurity matters, and an ongoing discussion of what a permanent mechanism for cybersecurity discussions within the UN would look like.
As policymakers grapple with an increasingly rocky geopolitical terrain, researchers and other non-governmental stakeholders play a key role in asking critical questions to inform policy action. With that in mind, the Cyberpolicy Dialogues 2025 will leverage the IGF community to reflect on two tracks: (i) the future of multistakeholder participation in cybersecurity policy dialogues and (ii) the shape of the cyber policy research agenda in an increasingly fractured world. The session will bring together policymakers and researchers to share experiences of existing multistakeholder efforts and help co-design pathways for a policy-led research agenda.
About RUSI’s Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour (GP-RCB) - a cross-regional platform launched in 2023 during the IGF in Kyoto comprised of over 70 researchers dedicated to a more practice and regionally-sensitive view of cyber policy discussions: https://rusi.org/networks/global-partnership-responsible-cyber-behaviou… About Virtual Routes - an organisation dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary research the digital and emerging technologies in global affairs. https://virtual-routes.org/
The new and interactive networking format certainly comes with an expectation of bringing participants that are attending the IGF in person for a meaningful and insightful exchange on the above-mentioned topics. To ensure effective participation online and offline, the online moderator will be sharing the questions via Slido or another interactive platform that will allow online participants to submit their responses--which has worked quite well during our first session in 2024. In-person attendees will also be invited to do so - which will allow for a full hybrid engagement and consolidation of responses. We will be exploring innovative and dynamic ways of portraying results such as using the platforms to develop word clouds based on the answers. All of this will be equally important for the consolidation of the information for the submission of the session report.
The new and interactive networking format certainly comes with an expectation of bringing participants that are attending the IGF in person for a meaningful and insightful exchange on the above-mentioned topics. To ensure effective participation online and offline, the online moderator will be sharing the questions via Slido or another interactive platform that will allow online participants to submit their responses--which has worked quite well during our first session in 2024. In-person attendees will also be invited to do so - which will allow for a full hybrid engagement and consolidation of responses. We will be exploring innovative and dynamic ways of portraying results such as using the platforms to develop word clouds based on the answers. All of this will be equally important for the consolidation of the information for the submission of the session report.