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VIENNA/STOCKHOLM, 4 May 2021 — With society more interconnected through technology than ever before, multilateral engagement is key to building confidence and trust to ensure an open and secure cyberspace, participants agreed during the opening session of the OSCE-wide Cyber/ICT Security Conference held online today.

Two back-to-back online training seminars on criminal law and criminological characteristics of computer crimes, methodology for detecting and investigating criminal offenses committed using information and communication technologies (ICT) concluded on 30 April 2021 in Nur-Sultan.

On 28 and 29 April 2021, the first national cyber drill exercise “Digital Kyrgyzstan 2021” was held in Bishkek. The event was organized by the Coordination Center for Cybersecurity of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic (CCCS SCNS) with support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the International Telecommunication Union.

The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department launched a new e-learning course on OSCE cyber/ICT security Confidence-Building Measures on 22 March 2021.

An educational series of videos on cyber hygiene rules for civil servants, produced with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator, was presented at an event in Kyiv on 26 January 2021. Nine episodes lasting from 3 to 7 minutes are placed on the Dia.Osvita digital education platform of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.

The OSCE launched the first fully online version of its training course, ‘Python Programming for Investigators’, on 30 November 2020 in collaboration with the European Cybercrime Training and Education Group (ECTEG) for cybercrime investigators in the Georgian Criminal Police Department and trainers of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

A four-day online training seminar on investigation practices of cybercrimes concluded on 12 November 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in co-operation with the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s office/Hub to Counter Global Threats, organized the event...