The eighth session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (OEWG) started with a promise to move the needle on key areas. Although the third annual progress report was agreed upon with relative ease, the Group remains soul-searching for the future format and focus of the regular institutional …

The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on the security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (OEWG) concluded its seventh substantive session in early March. Delegations gathered in New York to discuss proposals to advance the framework of responsible behaviour in light of present and emerging cyber threats and the needed capacity-building efforts. With the group’s mandate expiring …