Canadian/Chilean UN OEWG Side Event on Modalities for Stakeholder Participation in the Future UN Mechanism on Cybersecurity

On the margins of the ninth substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (UN OEWG), Canada and Chile co-organized a side event “Open Dialogue: Enabling Stakeholders to Add Value to State-led Discussions in the Future UN Mechanism for Security in Cyberspace”, moderated by Catalina Vera, Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kelly Anderson, Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Christina Rupp contributed to the side event as a speaker alongside fellow panelists Diane Shayne Lipana, Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the UN; Abdulrahman Moahmmed Al-Shafi, National Cyber Security Agency Qatar; Pavel Mraz, Cybersecurity researcher, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; and Ellie McDonald, Global Partners Digital. The Chair of the UN OEWG, Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, provided opening remarks.