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Cissé Kane, PhD President African Civil Society On the Information Society (ACSIS) ITU-ATU Workshop on Cybersecurity Strategy in African Countries Khartoum, Republic of Sudan, 24 – 26 July 2016 THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CYBERSECURITY PROGRAMS IN AFRICA

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Page 1: THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE …...Low level of cybersecurity readiness Lack of trust –Misuse and abuse Lack of multistakeholderim Weakness of global Policy and agenda on Cybersecurity

Cissé Kane, PhD

President African Civil Society On the Information Society (ACSIS)

ITU-ATU Workshop on Cybersecurity Strategy in African Countries Khartoum, Republic of Sudan, 24 – 26 July 2016

THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CYBERSECURITY PROGRAMS IN AFRICA

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Cybersecurity in General Strategic and vital component (critical Internet

infrastructure, health, financial sector, military, intelligence, factories, etc.)

Social component (spam, privacy, online protection, encryption)

Folk and emotional component (cyber attackworlwide, big one…)

Key players (ITU-WSIS-GCA, UN-CGE, USA, Russia, China, Germany, IGF, Council of Europe, OSCE, APEC, ASEAN, Business, Tech)

Trust and confidence for different reasons

Multistakeholderim in cybersecurity ?

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Cybersecurity in Africa: a long way to go…

Africa is quite absent in the global scene

Http://map.norsecorp.com/#/

Low level of cybersecurity readiness

Lack of trust – Misuse and abuse

Lack of multistakeholderim

Weakness of global Policy and agenda on Cybersecurity at a continental level

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National Computer Incident Response Teams (CIRTs), ITU

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National Cybersecurity Strategies, ITU

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Cyberwellness profiles, ITU GCI

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The African Civil Society on the Information Society

The Panafrican Network on ICT4D

Inception 2003 Geneva WSIS

Headquarters Senegal 2008

Militant et voluntarist for inclusion

Network of human resources from all More than 500 organizations including platform organizations

Member of ITU

Suited for visibility and dissemination

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ACSIS PRESENTATION : SKILLS High Level Expertise for advocacy, training, research,

sensitization, projects implementation on ICT4D opportunities advantages and threats in Africa: IG, cybersecurity, Gender, human rights, technical aspects, Security, e-waste, climate change, Business orientation, digital Africa

A link between connected and unconnected

Reach grassroots populations at a local level

Local languages

Geographical presence in all regions and countries: eg. For global projects implementation

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CHALLENGES SECURITY AND SAFETY

SOVEREIGNTY MILITARY,

DATA MINING AND PRIVACY

ONLINE PROTECTION

STRONG AU POLITICAL VISION AND WILL

OVERALL RESPONSE FROM THE POPULATIONS

TRUST AND INCLUSIVENESS (SENSITIZATION IN LOCAL LANGUAGES)

FINANCING NATIONAL READINESS

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Proposed solutions: GLOBAL

DEVELOP A CONTINENTAL AND STRONG LEGAL FRAMEWORK

STRENGTHEN AND BETTER USE LOCAL TECHNICAL CAPACITIES IN CYBERSECURITY ISSUES

MULTISTAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (EG. USA)

TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN CIVIL SOCIETY

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DEVELOPP TECHNICAL CAPACITIES

RELY ON CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK AND EXPERTISE

FAVOR LOCAL STAFF

DEVELOPP GLOBAL PROGRAM FOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO WEIGHT IN THE PROCESSES

GLOBAL TOOL ACSIS-GIPO TO HELP DEVELOPPING MONITORING SYSTEM ON CYBERSECURITY IN AFRICA

FIRST PANAFRICAN SUMMIT ON THE DIGITAL ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

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Proposed solutions: CIVIL SOCIETY

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Thank You !