What each one of us can do --- Alan, you strike the important point: what can each one of us do? Often, many of us see these diplomatic debates as too high-level, and feel that there is not much we can do but take popcorn and watch. Non-inclusive nature of those processes contributes to this.

What can we do? You lay out some ideas, I will add to that - I invite others to add as well.

We discussed already that cybersecurity depends on all the stakeholders - and each (industry, civil society, tech community, users, governments, IOs) have their own roles. It is important to understand our roles and responsibilities, and 'lead by own example' in implementing global rules, norms and CBMs.

Some of the roles for each one of us to shape these negotiations include: - raising awareness among communities, and shaping vox populi, about importance of these political and diplomatic processes - developing capacities of various actors to put up the measures, but also to understand global processes and find ways to contribute/influence them - assisting our states and delegations to shape national positions, and meaningfully participate and influence negotiations - cooperating and sharing information among various actors about attacks, origins, damage, purposes, and research on how existing or emerging international instruments can be implemented - raise awareness among our governments about international agreements in the field - and hold them (and other stakeholders) accountable for adhering to those -...

Source author: Vladimir Radunovic vladar@diplomacy.edu