[IGFmaglist] Proposal of Main Session: Addressing Cybersecurity by Building Resilience and Trust through Stakeholder Collaborations

[Segun Olugbile]

Dear Dominique and everyone,

Naturally I should be strongly interested in this workshop proposal. I had
the opportunity of conducting Nigeria Cybersecurity Policy & Strategy
development on behalf of the federal government through the Office of the
National Security Adviser (ONSA). Please see www.cert.gov.ng.

Sharing my experience, initially ONSA wanted developed this policy using
their usual approach of hiding under the pretext of the exclusive nature of
security without engaging the broad spectrum of stakeholders. As the lead
coordinator of the process I refused. I presented a strategic rational on
the imperative of engaging the whole of nation using the framework on
multistakeholderism. Critical issues were exposed, weaknesses of the
government readiness were hotly debated, of most important, stakeholders
suspicion of government motive which almost led to the trust crisis,
questions on how to identify, classify, and prioritise information
infrastructures as critical and non-critical and how to ensure the
protection and resiliency of such infrastructures were issues government
could not provide convincing response. However, through various
consultations and  stakeholders engagement during the policy development
life cycle, we are able surmount these challenges while addressing our
national issues.

learning from this experience, which is from developing country
perspectives, I strongly support your proposal. We need to harness viable
ideas, innovations and best practices for engaging stakeholders for
cybersecurity resilience program. Another critical imperative is the
subject matter of TRUST!

I have directly witnessed interplay of power and politics between
government as represented by security and law enforcement agencies and the
operators of information infrastructures on cybersecurity. Similarly,  It
is always ''cat and mouse game'' due to trust issues between government and
civil society as well. Most of our governments in Africa do not operate
open government process or pubic governance transparency. We are
continually contending between the concept of ''Enforcement'' and
''Cooperation'' in the implementation of cybersecurity standards.

I hope the proposed workshop will help look into these critical issues and
bring up best practices approach on entrenching cybersecurity through a
truly multi-stakeholders driven consensus. Interestingly, the proposed
workshop collaborators represented the 4 key actors strategic to
cybersecurity program i.e. Government ( rep. by Dutch govt), Privates
Sector (ICC BASIS), Civil Society (Observer Research Foundation (ORF),
India, and academia (Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at University of
Oxford).

The bottom line, I support this workshop, and to further express my willingness
to actively participate in it, and mobilise other interest groups from
region as well.


Best Regards.

Segun Olugbile

*Managing Partner/CEO *
Continental Project Affairs Associates (CPAA)
site: www.cpaa.com.ng
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Coordinator, Cybersecurity-Nigeria (www.cybersecuritynigeria.org.ng)
Founding Member, Nigeria IGF Multi Stakeholders Advisory Group (
www.nigf.org.ng)
Member, UN Multi-stakeholders Advisory Group on Internet Governance (
www.intgovforum.org)
President, Global Network for Cybersolution Ltd/Gte (Cybercrime
countermeasure NGO)
Vice Chair, Nigerian Child Online Protection (www.ncc.gov.ng)
Member, African ICT Alliance (www.aficta.org)

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Dominique Lazanski <dlazanski at gsma.com>
wrote:

>  Dear All,
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> Please find the attached proposal for consideration for a main proposal at
> this year’s IGF. The proposal is entitled Addressing Cybersecurity by
> Building Resilience and Trust through Stakeholder Collaborations. This
> session includes a number of different approaches to solves issues within
> the context of cybersecurity. The session is co-facilitated by me and in
> collaboration with the Dutch Government, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
> India, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at University of Oxford,
> ICC-BASIS.
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> Many thanks,
>
> Dominique
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> *Dominique Lazanski* | Public Policy Director | GSM Association | Email:
> dlazanski at gsma.com | Mobile: +44 (0)7809316063
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