CyberBRICS and the Center for Technology and Society at FGV are partners of the Closing the Gap 2022.
In 2022, EU Cyber Direct – EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative joins forces with the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs and numerous research institutions and civil society organisations around the world to organize the second edition of the Closing the Gap Conference. This two-day conference aims to explore more rigorously one of the key concepts in the international debates about the peaceful use of cyberspace: responsibility.
By focusing on responsibility and accountability as such, we hope to bring to the fore the variety of views, ideas and mechanisms from different disciplines – law, international relations, political sciences, sociology, behaviour sciences – that influence practices of state and non-state actors in cyberspace.
During four different panels on 8 and 9 June 2022, eighteen scholars and experts will present their papers and views on how to close the gap in the regional processes and perspectives, international law, the multilateral processes and perspectives, and the participation of non-state actors. In addition, there will be two roundtables with experts from around the world on global perspectives on EU cyber diplomacy and on scholars and experts’ experiences on working with policymakers.
CyberBRICS Director Luca Belli will join the discussion presenting the recent CyberBRICS Research on cybersecurity and present with Yasmin Curzi (CyberBRICS Associated Scholar) and Walter Britto (CyberBRICS Community Manager) the new paper on “Responsible social media platforms in the BRICS countries: Trends, convergence, and divergence”.