In the “Accra Call” of the Global Conference on Cybersecurity Capacity Building (GC3B) in Accra/Ghana in November 2023, the global CCB community committed to “accelerate efforts to improve the measurement of cyber capacity building results [….] by actively and systematically integrating methodologies and good practices from the international development field”.
This call was supported by two sessions organised at the conference by the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA), the University of Oxford Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC), Integrity and Royal Holloway University London (RHUL), in support of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise’s Strategy and Assessments Working Group (GFCE WG)1:
- A panel discussion “Driving impact: making the case for better evaluation of CCB”, making the case for CCB actors to invest resources in IE; and
- A complementing practitioner workshop’s (“Improving CCB Evaluation Practice - Knowledge Sharing and Community Building”), whose purpose was to build a community of practice to foster collaboration between the different actors and to identify lessons, tools, and solutions for better CCB evaluation and metrics.
In both sessions, members of the CCB and International Development (ID) communities identified the strong need for more knowledge, research, and action on what works and doesn’t work in CCB and on what the solutions could be. Participants included representatives from governments, international/regional organisations, implementers, private sector, academia, and civil society, based in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific. The sessions and their interactive format were seen as an important starting point to focus efforts on the issue, and many stakeholders expressed interest to stay involved and contribute to future work. Several institutions already expressed interest or have already committed to providing resources for this work.
If you want to learn more about the project and interested in collaborating, please contact carolin.weisser@cs.ox.ac.uk
1 Following organisations contributed to the planning and delivery of the sessions: Blacksmiths Group, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, Cyber Czar, Cyber4Dev, GFCE, GIZ, Global Partners Digital, Government of North Macedonia, Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino, JICA, KPMG UK, Michigan State University, NetHope, Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC)/Monash University, Organization of American States (OAS), Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tel Aviv University, UK FCDO, UNIDIR, and World Bank.
