Cybersecurity at the UN: Another Year, Another GGE

This week, the UN General Assembly considered a resolution mandating the creation of a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) for 2016-2017. The GGE will study existing and potential threats in the sphere of information security, as well as possible cooperative measures to address them. The resolution has already been approved in the First Committee, the General Assembly’s specialized committee dealing with international security and disarmament issues. Pending consideration from the Budgetary Committee for the costs of the GGE, the resolution forwarded by the First Committee will be formally approved by the General Assembly, presumably by the end of this month.

As previously discussed on Lawfare, this outcome was well expected. After all, this is the fifth Group of Governmental Experts that the UN has established since it began considering information security back in 1998. Just this summer, the 2014-2015 (the fourth) GGE concluded year-long discussions with a highly-anticipated consensus report. In the report, experts from 20 states agreed upon an impressive array of recommendations for confidence-building measures, capacity-building efforts, and voluntary, non-binding norms. For the full article click here 

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