[Chapter-delegates] Cyber developments at the United Nations

[Veni Markovski]

Hi, everyone.
A short note on the latest developments at the United Nations General
Assembly, which we (ISOC, ISOC chapters) should follow closely in 2019.
Attached here are the texts of the UNGA resolutions, as well as the
initial draft (for information purposes only) of one of the cyber
resolutions, and below is some explanation, which may be useful for the
group:

The points we have to pay special attention to (N1834213 file):
“1.8. States should respond to appropriate requests for assistance by
another State whose critical infrastructure is subject to malicious ICT
acts. States should also respond to appropriate requests to mitigate
malicious ICT activity aimed at the critical infrastructure of another
State emanating from their territory, taking into account due regard for
sovereignty.”
and
“5. Decides to convene, beginning in 2019, with a view to making the
United Nations negotiation process on security in the use of information
and communications technologies more democratic, inclusive and
transparent, an open-ended working group (OEWG) acting on a consensus
basis, to continue, as a priority, to further develop the rules, norms
and principles of responsible behaviour of States listed in paragraph 1
above, and the ways for their implementation;“

The OEWG will issue a study of existing and potential threats, and will
submit a report to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in two years (in
2020). To produce the study, the OEWG might hold meetings with
“interested parties, namely business, non-governmental organizations and
academia, to share views on the issues within the group’s mandate”.

The second cyber resolution (N1832770) establishes a GGE (Governmental
Group of Experts) in 2019, with the intention to issue a report in 2021.
It also requires the chair of the GGE to organize 2 two-day informal
consultative meetings with all member states.

The cybercrime resolution (N1835825) requests the UN SG to “seek the
views of Member States on the challenges they face in countering”
cybercrime, and “to present a report, based on those views” to the UNGA
next year.


One observation to keep in mind is that this year we see clearly that
the UN continues to increase its engagement in the field of
cybersecurity, and is now in a unique situation: to have two parallel
tracks of discussions (which also coincides with theHigh Level Panel on
Digital Cooperation <https://digitalcooperation.org> deliberations
taking place as we speak).
Let’s not forget that there are also the ECOSOC High Level Political
Forum, and the Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and
Innovation (STI Forum), where there’s always the possibility of
discussing cybersecurity and broader Internet topics. At the UNGA we
have several different groups to follow: UNGA First Committee
(cybersecurity), Second Committee (ICT for development), and Third
Committee (cybercrime).

I hope this note is helpful for the chapters' leaders and ISOC.

best,
veni


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Veni
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