Announcing the 9th and 10th Edition of the Free and Safe in Cyberspace in Geneva
Concurrently with the UN WSIS 2023, next March 15-16th in Geneva, then on April 19th, 2023, we’ll hold the 9th and 10th editions of the Free and Safe in Cyberspace workshop series.
In a series of workshops, lunch and dinners, delegates of states, IGOs and neutral NGOs will join together to learn about and discuss a new cybersecurity capacity-building, cyber diplomacy, and joint venture initiative aimed at radically increasing both the security and accountability of the day-to-day mobile communications of government officials, diplomats, prime ministers, and citizens alike, the Trustless Computing Certification Body and Seevik Net Initiative, to substantially improve their digital democratic sovereignty, digital diplomacy capabilities, and spur their economic development in the Digital and AI Age.
In addition to a WSIS session on Thursday, March 16th at 10-10.45, we'll hold a workshop+lunch on Wednesday 15th morning, a workshop+dinner on the 16th afternoon, and an advance workshop in the 15th afternoon, in a venue just 4 minutes walk from the WSIS venue, as you can see from our online agenda.
Even prime ministers are getting hacked on their phones.
Just over the last year, 5 European heads of state or heads of opposition and 2 foreign ministers were hacked on their smartphones. The hacks went on for months, giving unidentified hackers access most likely to all data, communications and the ability to turn on the device microphones. And these are just the discovered and reported ones.
Worse, the number of victims worldwide - for political or profit motives - are most likely in the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding elected officials, diplomats and citizens, while millions are at risk, as we argued in a recent opinion article published on Geneva's leading newspaper, Le Temps.
Among them, diplomats are especially affected as they are hugely constrained in their effectiveness by the lack of confidentiality of digital communications, at a time of multiple global crises that require more than ever fair and effective digital dialogue.
Nearly all parliamentarians and ministers, and their close associates, are hackable or hacked in a massive scale by unidentified foreign state and non-state entities.
Last but not least, international organizations like ICRC, UNHCR, the UN and UNICC are not able to maintain the security and privacy they need to fulfil their mission of neutrality.
More Information
To know more our our initiative, start by reviewing this web page, then our Trustless Computing Certification Body and Seevik Net web page, and then download, feel free to review and share internally the following documents. A 30-page Executive Summary (pdf A4), prefaced by a 5-page Summary, outlining the opportunity for your organization. A 33-page TCA, TCCB and Seevik Net Introduction Slides (pdf slides). A 25-page TCCB & Seevik Net Traction Update is also available on qualified request, that details our engagements over the last 2 years with over 10 states, IGOs and INGOs interested to join as partners of the initiative.
Register Today!
To register, please fill our online registration form as soon as possible as participation is limited to 36 total participants, to ensure highly interactive workshops. As of today, we have room left for only a few more organizations. Participation is possible via "full participant" or "observer status". Up to 3 delegates per organization are allowed. If your WSIS agenda is already too busy, you are welcome to drop by just for lunch on the 15th or dinner on the 16th, both timed to fit in the WSIS 2023 agenda breaks.
Looking forward to seeing you in Geneva!