Combating Cybercrime: Tools and Capacity Building for Emerging Economies

World Bank & ITU

This workshop will provide an overview of the activities of the partners in a cybercrime capacity building project and solicit feedback on project/partner activities from stakeholders.

The purpose of the Project is to build capacity among policy-makers, legislators, public prosecutors and investigators, and civil society in developing countries in policy, legal and criminal justice aspects of the enabling environment to combat “cybercrime”. The Project will do this by synthesizing international best practices in these areas in a published tool that enables assessment of and best practices guidance with respect to the legal issues associated with combatting cybercrime; and field testing the tool in selected pilot countries. It is expected that the tool will be made available as a global public good.

Main partners in the Project include: The Korea Supreme Prosecutors Office, Council of Europe, Oxford University’s Cyber-security Capacity Building Centre, International Association of Penal Law, UN ODC, UN ICRI, ITU, and UNCTAD.  The Project is being led by the World Bank and is funded by a grant from the Government of Korea.

Speakers / panellists
  • Jinyong Chung, World Bank, Moderator
  • Rosheen Awotar-Mauree, ITU
  • Francesca Bosco, UNICRI
  • Maria Bada, Oxford University
  • Heesuk Lee, assisted by Pillhwan Chu, Korea Supreme Prosecutors’ Office
  • Ilia Kolochenko, CEO,  High-Tech Bridge
Session's link to WSIS Action Lines
  • C1. The role of public governance authorities and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • C4. Capacity building
  • C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
  • C6. Enabling environment
  • C11. International and regional cooperation
Session's link to the Sustainable Development Process

As UN specialized agencies, the World Bank and ITU are working with the UN Sustainable Development process in developing indicators in these areas.



WSIS Forum 2015 | Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for Sustainable Development
25–29 May 2015, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland