GG2022 fellows present report on the future of global cyber security governance

On 5 December 2013 at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, two participants of GG2022, a fellowship program that GPPi jointly organizes, presented a report that explored two scenarios for the future of global cyber security governance. The GG2022 fellows also recommended a set of actions that pave a path towards establishing an environment in which a more cooperative form of global cyber security governance could evolve.

Presenting the report were Puja Abbassi, a PhD candidate at the University of Cologne, and Martin Kaul, who until recently served as a policy advisor to the Green Party’s speaker on climate policy in the German Parliament. Abbassi and Kaul were two of the eight members of a working group that produced the report, titled Securing the Net: Global Governance in the Digital Domain (the full report is available).

The working group’s policy recommendations include:

• Enhance trust through existing governance structures;
• Address long standing points of contention by internationalizing control over ICANN and curbing economic espionage;
• Build capacity to reduce exposure to cyber vulnerabilities across the entire system of stakeholders; and
• Build a multistakeholder ​“trust cell” for cyber security governance that evolves from current structures and includes representation from NGOs and the private sector.

Following the presentation, which was moderated by GPPi’s Joel Sandhu, a discussion took place between the panelists and two cyber security experts – Ansgar Baum, director of government relations at Hewlett-Packard Company, and Stefan Heumann, deputy program director of European Digital Agenda at the think tank stiftung neue verantwortung.

GG2022 jointly organized by the GPPi, the Hertie School of Governance, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. The program is generously supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Transatlantic Program of the German Government.