GLACY+  is a Joint project of the European Union (Instrument Contributing to Peace and Stability) and the Council of Europe.

GLACY+ is intended to extend the experience of the GLACY project (2013 – 2016) and supports nineteen priority and hub countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean region – Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Ghana, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste and Tonga. These countries may serve as hubs to share their experience within their respective regions.

Objectives:

To strengthen the capacities of States worldwide to apply legislation on cybercrime and electronic evidence and enhance their abilities for effective international cooperation in this area.

1. To promote consistent cybercrime legislation, policies and strategies;

2. To strengthen the capacity of police authorities to investigate cybercrime and engage in effective police-to-police cooperation with each other as well as with cybercrime units in Europe and other regions;

3. To enable criminal justice authorities to apply legislation and prosecute and adjudicate cases of cybercrime and electronic evidence and engage in international cooperation.

Activities

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GLACY+: Strengthening the capacities of African countries to respond to cyber terrorism attacks

On 18 and 19 February the GLACY+ project was invited to contribute to the African regional workshop on “Enhancing the Capacity of Member States to prevent and Investigate Cyber-Attacks by Terrorist Actors and Mitigate their Impact”, organized in Nairobi, Kenya by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre of the UNOCT (United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism).

The workshop was hosted by the Government of Kenya and specifically targeting the sub-regions of Sahel, Horn of Africa and East Africa, with participants from Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

The workshop aimed at enhancing Member States’ understanding of the threat of cyber-attacks perpetrated by terrorist actors and supporting public authorities and private organizations managing national critical infrastructures in identifying key gaps in their ability to prevent such attacks, and mitigate, recover and restore their infrastructure, should such cyber-attacks occur.

The participation of GLACY+ offered a twofold opportunity:

  •  to highlight the challenges of the criminal justice sector in addressing cyber terrorism cases, and to provide examples on how to use the provisions of the Budapest Convention for effectively investigating, securing evidence, collaborating cross-country and prosecuting criminals;
  •  to discuss possible synergies between the respective programs and to start a platform for a collaboration in the region.
Nairobi, Kenya 18 -19 February 2020
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