Cybersecurity and human rights in Latin America

Institutional
Duration: 1970 - 1970
Status: Concluded

Cybersecurity has always been a relevant topic in national and international discussions, but it became even more present in the public debate after espionage scandals and hacker attacks to civil and state systems around the world. Accordingly, the elaboration and implementation of cybersecurity policies became part of the national security agenda of most States. Governments throughout the world face the challenge of elaboration and implementation of measures that ensure the security of the cyberspace in order for it to continue to be explored in all its potentiality and that, at the same time, respect human rights.

In this scenario, the project Cybersecurity: empowering the civil society for the defense of a free, open and secure Internet, developed in partnership with other Latin American organizations (TEDIC, Derechos Digitales, R3D, Karisma and ADC) and coordinated by Global Partners Digital, aims to protect human rights through the qualification of civil society stakeholders in the global South to effectively take part in debates about Internet policies on a national, regional and international level. In addition, it seeks to build multi-sectoral institutional arrangements for political decision-making processes related to cybersecurity.