[liberationtech] Call for comments: IGF BPF on Cybersecurity

[Maarten Van Horenbeeck]

Hi everyone, 

This Thursday in Guadalajara, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will
conduct a meeting of the Best Practices Forum on cybersecurity, which
has been documenting issues in multistakeholder cooperation on
cybersecurity. 

A draft outcome document is published for public comment here: 

https://www.intgovforum.org/review/2016-igf-best-practice-forums-bpfs-draft-outputs-as-of-2-november/2016-igf-bpf-cybersecurity-draft-output-version-1/


The deadline for input is this Thursday, December 8th. This year, there
was more input from civil society than during the previous iterations. 

However, I wanted to post it to liberationtech to broaden awareness, as
a lot of great comments came from list participants last year. If you
plan to comment but have limited time, the following outcome statements
under "Part 3: dialogue/contributions and recommendations for way
forward" are most worthwhile to review: 

* The involvement of government, private sector, civil society and
other stakeholders in handling cybersecurity was stressed as fundamental
in terms of sharing best practices, sharing results of critical
assessments and identifying globally accepted standards of
cybersecurity. All stakeholders must understand, respect and trust each
other's expertise and competences.

* It was emphasized that to many today, the word "cybersecurity" is
often loaded with context, and many organizations associate it with
government decision making, or commercial security solutions. Within the
IGF, it was said, there is an opportunity to redefine cybersecurity as a
common goal between all stakeholders, and to work towards finding a
common understanding about what productive cooperation and collaboration
might look like.

* It was said that the term "cybersecurity" can mean very different
things to different stakeholders depending upon the context in which
it's being used. (national security; public security; enterprise
security; incidence response; personal security; protection against
large scale data breaches and cyber crime/online crime; uncertainties
about how our data is being used; surveillance and other online threats,
etc.)

* There was broad agreement that the roles and responsibilities of
stakeholders are evolving in making the Internet a secure and safe place
for people to socialize and conduct business. It is clear that security
is no longer just the purview of governments and that it is increasingly
a multistakeholder imperative.

* Evolving understandings of cybersecurity make efforts to ensure the
Internet is a secure and safe place an important focus of policy that
requires input from multiple stakeholders. Starting from a dominant
technical perspective of cybersecurity and focusing on protecting
information infrastructure, debates around cybersecurity have rapidly
broadened, bringing in many issues from cybercrime to secure access
policies to data ethics and human rights under its banner.

* There was general consensus within the BPF around the notion that
cybersecurity initiatives should be built on democratic,
multistakeholder processes, ensuring the meaningful and accountable
participation of all stakeholders, including governments, the private
sector, civil society, the technical community, the academic community
and users.

* It's imperative to promote more robust, effective and timely
information-sharing, cooperation and coordination among cybersecurity
stakeholders at the national, regional and international levels.
Cooperation and collaboration is key in cybersecurity, not only to avoid
duplicate work and analysis, but also in respect to less mature
entities, being able to profit from the experience and expertise of
others and as such develop faster thereafter.

* Within the CSIRT community, automating information exchange where
possible, and ensuring CSIRT's ability to process information at an
increasing pace is extremely important. CSIRT's can often be resource
constrained in terms of qualified analysts, and allowing them to focus
on harder problems that require expert review is critical. However, it
is important to clarify that prior to any automated exchange taking
place, it is crucial for stakeholders to set expectations around how the
data will be used. Sharing indicators may not be helpful if they are not
used correctly, or are used for different purposes than intended. While
there are typically many technical means of addressing a security
incident, it is most important that goals are aligned and expectations
are clearly set.

* For CSIRTs to effectively work with each other, or other peers within
the community, trust is a crucial requirement. Trust is typically not
established through legal agreements, but through a history of working
with each other. Developing trust is easiest when the objectives of both
organizations align. When both organizations have as goal to remediate
the incident and restore operations, they 

Re: [liberationtech] Gambia

[Heather Leson]

Thanks for bringing up this topic.

Did you see this article from the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/gambia-argos-president-security-guard-adama-barrow

Heather


Heather Leson
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Blog: textontechs.com

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Richard Brooks  wrote:

> Have not seen any discussion here on Gambia, where a surprise
> peaceful exchange of power seems to be taking place. The
> dictator cut off Internet and phone service during the
> election and yet has accepted that he lost the election.
>
> A rare piece of good news.
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Re: [liberationtech] Gambia

[Richard Brooks]

Had not seen that. When Bill Clinton was elected in the US,
did they mention that he grew up in a trailer park?

It seems like the motivation for this type of story is
obvious, and sad. When one of the worst autocrats is
overthrown by democratic means, it should be big news.

On 12/05/2016 02:29 PM, Heather Leson wrote:
> Thanks for bringing up this topic.
> 
> Did you see this article from the Guardian
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/gambia-argos-president-security-guard-adama-barrow
> 
> 
> Heather
> 
> 
> Heather Leson
> heatherle...@gmail.com 
> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
> Blog: textontechs.com
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Richard Brooks  > wrote:
> 
> Have not seen any discussion here on Gambia, where a surprise
> peaceful exchange of power seems to be taking place. The
> dictator cut off Internet and phone service during the
> election and yet has accepted that he lost the election.
> 
> A rare piece of good news.
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[liberationtech] New Call for Open Access Book Proposals: Critical Digital and Social Media Studies

[Christian Fuchs]

NEW CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSALS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL 
MEDIA STUDIES


Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is a new open access book 
series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster 
Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of 
Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that 
fall into the scope of the series.


SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday 30 January 2017 23:00 BST

by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager), 
a.lock...@westminster.ac.uk.


For full details and proposal guidelines see; 
http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/news


CALL DETAILS

The Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Series is published by the 
University of Westminster Press (http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk). 
The first volume in the series - Christian Fuchs: Critical Theory of 
Communication - has just been published and is available as gratis open 
access book and as affordable paperback:


http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/detail/1/critical-theory-of-communication/

Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the 
political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational 
capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social 
media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and 
social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture 
online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and 
social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; 
the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and 
social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, 
cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive 
online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile 
media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying 
digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet 
platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical 
study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital 
democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service 
digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; 
subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the 
age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context 
of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital 
capitalism and digital consumer culture.

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[liberationtech] Gambia

[Richard Brooks]

Have not seen any discussion here on Gambia, where a surprise
peaceful exchange of power seems to be taking place. The
dictator cut off Internet and phone service during the
election and yet has accepted that he lost the election.

A rare piece of good news.
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[liberationtech] disease modeling and crisis mapping

[Yosem Companys]

Interesting project. -- YC

*

From: Jacob Barhak 

I am a disease modelers so the crisis I am mapping is ongoing - people
always get ill and die out of some health crisis at some point in
life. I am trying to figure out what may happen in the future if the
future behaves like data we have.

Such long term predictions may not look like a crisis, so I am unsure
it is a natural connection to this group, yet I am curious about
population modeling that they do.

We have a population modeling working group that I am constantly
looking to enrich. Perhaps there is a connection there. Here are some
links to it.

This is the link to the portal from where you can join:
https://simtk.org/mailman/listinfo/popmodwkgrpimag-news

This is our portal at IMAG - the government organization web site that
hosts the working group:
http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/content/population-modeling-working-group

Here is a simple short explanation on the working group:
https://simtk.org/home/popmodwkgrpimag

Here are some examples we collected from our members:
https://simtk.org/docman/view.php/962/1897/SpringSim2015PopMod_Upload_2015_04_10.pptx

Here are our discussion archives:
https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/


I am unsure how much synergy is out there, yet hopefully there will be
some mutual interest.


   Jacob
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