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ID Title Theme Name Organization Description and list of panelists A brief substantive summary and the main issues that were identified Conclusions and further comments 68 Developing comprehensive cybercrime legislation Security Alexander Seger Council of Europe Comprehensive and consistent legislation is essential to help societies meet the The event underlined that comprehensive and consistent legislation is essential The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is the only binding legal challenge of cybercrime and thus to enhance the security of and confidence in to help societies meet the challenge of cybercrime and thus to enhance the document in the world providing solutions for this issue. It is open for information and communication technologies. Legal frameworks should take security of and confidence in information and communication technologies. accession to every state and offers guidelines of conduct as well as legal basis into account the rights of users and the role of the private sector on the one Legal frameworks should take into account the rights of users and the role of for international co-operation to its Parties. It is designed to criminalise hand, and security concerns on the other. The Convention on Cybercrime of the private sector on the one hand, and security concerns on the other. The offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data the Council of Europe provides a global guideline in this respect. Convention on Cybercrime of the Council of Europe provides a global guideline and systems, computer-related offences, content-related offences (i.e. child More than 100 countries worldwide have strengthened or are in the process of in this respect. pornography, racism and xenophobia) and offences relating to infringement of strengthening their cybercrime legislation. The aim of the best practice forum copyright and associated rights in a consistent and harmonised manner. is to share this experience and encourage further action in other countries. The workshop: • Promoted globally harmonised legislation based on international standards, In order to put a comprehensive legislative framework in place that is Moderator: Andrew McIntosh, Chair, Sub-Committee on the Media, and in particular the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime internationally harmonized and permits efficient international cooperation, Rapporteur on Media Freedom, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly • Highlighted the substantial assistance provided by the Council of Europe countries should be encouraged to make use of the Council of Europe (PACE), Strasbourg within the Project on cybercrime to different countries to harmonise their Convention on Cybercrime (CETS 185). criminal law provisions on cybercrime with those of other countries in order to Speakers: facilitate international cooperation - Pavan Duggal (India) • The participants' questions underlined the complexity of the legislation on - Ehab Elsonbaty (Egypt) cybercrime and the need for assistance and international joint efforts - Jayantha Fernando (Sri Lanka) - Marco Gercke (Germany) - Cristina Schulman (Council of Europe) 72 Children in the Web 2.0 world – the European Security Margareta Traung European Commission, . Ana Luisa Rotta: Spanish Safer Internet Centre; Katia Segers presented the EU Kids Online project as a network of social The moderator closed the workshop by concluding that; approach Safer Internet programme . Katia Segers: EU Kids Online science researchers from 22 Member States, coordinated by the London School • shared responsibility and a multi-stakeholder approach are necessary. Not of Economics. The project aims to find existing research on children's use of only parents are responsible for children's use of the internet, but also online technologies and existing policies on the issue, and to collect them in a governments, industry etc have to work together to develop more effective database. The findings of the gathered research are compared in order to see awareness campaigns. In this respect Europe is doing well through the Safer the differences between the countries. The project also aims to identify gaps Internet programme, where each Safer Internet Centre have advisory boards where more research is still needed. For example, there is more research from different stakeholders, and ensure to listen to the voice of youth through available on access to internet and use than there is on potential risks. youth panels. The follow-up project, EU Kids Online 2, therefore also includes in addition to • self regulation works well but must be followed up. the above actual research to be carried out via a questionnaire on the topics of • results need to be disseminated and shared for best effect. online opportunities and risks. it is necessary to measure the impact of the campaigns, as well as choosing the Some key trends that have been identified so far are: right topics to focus on. • children's use of internet continues to grow especially among younger children, • the so called digital gap is closing, • accessing internet from the home is becoming more common. Rachel o'Connell, Chief Safety Officer of Bebo, presented the work that led to the signing of the "Social Networking Sites' Principles", where she helped to coordinate 18 social networking sites to develop good practice guidelines for social networking sites as regards privacy issues and protection of minors. She stressed the importance of self regulation where industry and other stakeholders work together in order to mitigate risks, as well as parent's involvement and interest in their children's activities online. She hailed the initiative of the establishment of the Principles as an extraordinary move by the Commission, which after a 9 months long drafting process lead to the signature of the guidelines on Safer Internet Day in 87 2CENTRE, the Cybercrime Centres of Excellence for Capacity Building Jean-Christophe LE TOQUIN Microsoft 2CENTRE stands for the Cybercrime Centres of Excellence Network for Training, InFebruary developped 2009. and developping economies, Law enforcement has insufficient Law enforcement and industry face the same challenges, both in countries with Training, Research & Education Research and Education. 2CENTRE is a European project which aim at uniting training options in IT forensics and cybercrime investigations and rely on developped or developping economies : they do not have a scalable and law enforcement, industry and academia courses provided by INTERPOL or foreign national law enforcement. sustainable program to educate their staff in investigating or addressing cybercrime. Moderator: In addition, a number of countries have developed their own law enforcement Jean-Christophe Le Toquin cybercrime training programmes either alone or in conjunction with academic A program like 2CENTRE, which aims at building capacity for law enforcement Director, Internet Safety, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Europe Middle- institutes. Law enforcement has also been provided with and availed of a large at national level, while at the same time building international cooperation East and Africa number of training courses, seminars, conferences and hands-on training between national centers of excellence against cybercrime, met the interest of provided by different industry players in locations throughout the world. the participants. Speakers: Dr. Joe Carthy Both groups of actors – law enforcement and industry – have arrived at the Head of School realisation that ad hoc training provided on request or as part of ongoing but UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics irregular support services do not provide sustainable, scalable, standards University College Dublin based, measureable skills delivering the requirements of the cybercrime forensics investigator today. Alexander Seger Head of Department of Economic Crime and Information Society In order to continue the development and delivery of effective cybercrime Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs training to law enforcement on an international level, it is necessary for them Council of Europe to partner with learning organisations and industry to create a network to take responsibility for the programmes and academic oversight, and where possible, General Amir Alphonse Sadek Tadros offer of appropriate academic qualifications. General Department of Information and Documentation – Interior Ministry of Egypt 90 Mitigating the Financial Crisis with Open Source Development Lillian Sharpley AfriNIC The workshop aimed to create awareness on open source There was a panel of five speakers who: It was agreed that FOSS should continue to be a topic of discussion at IGF to Applications application/technology and how this can be used to reduce the financial continue to increase awareness about a cost effective solution for business burden on an organisation’s IT infrastructure, especially with the challenges - Defined open source software, its background and how it is managed; operations; to increase the understanding of FOSS; and, to increase the support that have been brought about by the global financial crisis. Emphasis was - Explained the difference between open source software and proprietary of FOSS software developers. placed on Africa and developing nations. software; - Provided alternate solution to proprietary software using open source and Other conclusions were: suggested specific solutions for common business processes. 1. Mr. Christian