As cybersecurity becomes an increasingly important issue on the international governance agenda, there is a need for an informed debate on the relationship between governance, security, and fundamental rights and freedoms online, involving all stakeholders, and particularly with respect to policy development.
The purpose of the session is to share perspectives on the need for cybersecurity policy to be rights-respecting by design and to discuss and build on a set of recommendations from the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) WG 1 on “Internet free and secure” designed to bring human rights into cybersecurity policy development and decision-making.Uri Rosenthal, Special Envoy for International Cyber Policies, Government of the Netherlands (welcome video)
Eileen Donahoe, Human Rights Watch, FOC WG 1
Michael Walma, Cyber Coordinator, Department of Fooreign Affairs, Government of CanadaAudrey Plonk, Director, Global Cybersecurity and Internet Governance Policy, Intel Corporation
Mishi Choudhary, Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Center
The breakouts will be fully interactive, involving the workshop participants in small focussed groups that will discuss the need for cybersecurity to be rights respecting by design and review and build on the recomendaitons from the Freedom Online Coalition Working Group. Those attending the workshop are encouraged to review the draft recommendations in workshop documentation. FOC WG 1 members will be moderating each breakout.