Starting on 1^st January 2011, funded within the project portfolio of DG INFSO, Unit F5 ICT Trust and Security Research, the Coordination Action BIC project – Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT: Security, Privacy and Trust in Global Networks & Services – will expand the co-operation models of EU researchers and programme management with their peers in new ICT high-growth countries, specifically Brazil, India and South Africa, who represent emergent world-impacting information economies through the scale and sophistication of their growing ICT sectors.