UNIDIR, in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada, the International Telecommunication Union, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and the Stimson Center, is pleased to convene a Day 0 roundtable at the Internet Governance Forum 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In today’s digital landscape, there is a growing acknowledgment of the gender dimension of cyber threats as well as the persistent digital and cyber gender divide with women representing only 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce. However, specific gender-differentiated impacts of cyber threats and strategies to increase women participation in cybersecurity remain underexplored, hindering multistakeholder efforts to enhance cyber resilience and promote inclusive international peace and security governance models.
This roundtable will explore gendered impacts of cyberattacks and practical steps for mainstreaming gender into global cybersecurity policy. It will also aim to identify concrete strategies to enhance women’s participation in cyber diplomacy and the cybersecurity workforce. This session is part of a series of events convened jointly by UNIDIR and the Stimson Center to collect insights and recommendations from across the multistakeholder community for a ‘Compendium of Good Practices for Mainstreaming Gender into Global Cybersecurity Policy.’ The resulting discussions and recommendations from this roundtable will inform the compendium of good practices, which will be published in 2025.
Speakers
- Aaryn Yunwei Zhou, Deputy Director, International Cyber and Emerging Technology Policy Division, Global Affairs Canada [on-site]
- Hoda Al Khzaimi, Director of Centre for Cybersecurity, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Founder and Director of Emerging Advanced Research Acceleration for Technologies, Security and Cryptology Research Lab and Center [on-site]
- Yasmine Idrissi Azzouzi, Cybersecurity Programme Officer, International Telecommunication Union [on-site]
- Allison Pytlak, Program Lead of the Cyber Programme, Stimson Center [online]
- Luanda Domi, Gender Mainstreaming and Cyber Skills Development Manager, Global Forum on Cyber Expertise [online]
- Catalina Vera Toro, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Chile to the OAS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile [online]
Moderated by Shimona Mohan, Associate Researcher, Gender and Disarmament and Security and Technology Programmes, UNIDIR
Rapporteur Pavel Mraz, Cybersecurity Researcher, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR
When and where
Sunday, 15 December, 16:30-18:00 AST (14:30-16:00 CET), Workshop Room 7, King Abdulaziz International Conference Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Participants
Open to all registered participants to the Internet Governance Forum, both on-site and online.
RSVP
Please register online here.
Further information
For more information, please contact igf@un.org.