Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT

BIC Workshop on the cross domain coordination of International Cooperation (Day 1) and technical themes in Trustworthy ICT and INCO (Day 2)

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Date(s) - 21 Jun 2012 until 22 Jun 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

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DIAMANT Conference & Business Centre

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Workshop report now available.

The full workshop report is now available for downloading by clicking –> Final Report of Workshop. The BIC project would like to thank all of the contributors to the report.

A downloadable delegate pack of the two day BIC event with venue details, terms of reference and agendas can now be found at BIC_WS_info_21-22June2012. In addition, a summary agenda handout can be found BIC Workshop handout

During 21 – 22nd June 2012, in order to capitalise on a number of events being held during the same week [1], the BIC project is organising two workshops over two full days, covering their working groups (WGs) topics. Depending on your particular interests in the following terms of references for each day, you are hereby invited to attend one or both days events. The Working Groups of BIC form one of the central pillars of the operational structure of the BIC project. The main goal of the BIC Working Groups is to bring their domain expertise and provide thought leadership to identify and validate future joint EU-International Trustworthy ICT research priorities. Each Working Group will be self organised and composed of external experts, in addition to ‘ex officio’ members from BIC, ensuring a balance of thematic expertise as well as country and organisational background (industry, research, academia and civil society). This workshop will be the first time the BIC WG members will be meeting in a face-to-face setting. Additional information on the BIC WGs can be found here.

Terms of Reference

Day 1. 21st June 2012, DIAMANT Conference & Business Centre, Auguste Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium

Workshop title: Cross domain coordination of International Cooperation (INCO)

Background: The European Commission is advocating and supporting strong cooperation internationally, with the following objectives:

  • To jointly develop ICT solutions to international societal and economic challenges relating to the security and trustworthiness of the global ICT systems, services and infrastructures;
  • To jointly respond to major global technological and operational challenges by developing interoperable solutions and standards;
  • To improve scientific and technological cooperation for mutual benefit.

At the 1st BIC Annual Forum [2] in November 2011, a key recommendation was made for enhanced coordination and information-sharing across the variety of bi-lateral International Cooperation (INCO) activities sponsored by the European Commission. As BIC spans multiple countries with a unique multi-lateral profile, BIC aims to further this recommendation by hosting a workshop that brings together the multiple projects and stakeholders that are already engaged in International cooperation with the intent to:

  • Explore the insights and common experiences across projects;
  • Identifying, discussing and assessing (a) key challenges, issues and priorities; and   (b) mechanisms for international cooperation that are already available;
  • Explore possible synergistic approaches for mutual collaboration, cooperation and organising future joint INCO research activities and its supporting programmes.

Objectives: The Workshop on Day 1 aims to achieve the following concrete outcomes:

  • From the experiences and insights of the participants, determine the ways to move forward on international cooperation, and future calls for collaborative research;
  • Forming the current bi-lateral (and potentially overlapping) country to country cooperation into a comprehensive and coordinated global cooperation;
  • Compiling a who’s who directory of agency and research contacts across the  countries;
  • Identification of “success metrics” for international cooperation and collaboration:
    • rationale – motives and goals – engagement in international cooperation;
    • success criteria with regard to results;
    • analysis and assessment of INCO impact.

Day 1 Workshop Format: After the opening plenary session, there will follow a number of round table style interactive sessions composed of a series of presentations and discussions of topics each with a nominated moderator. In order to be more concrete in terms of results, each session will be as self-contained as possible, generating input to the workshop results highlighted by assigned rapporteurs in conjunction with the moderator and participants.

AGENDA Day 1:

09:30 – 10:00 Registration of participants
10:00 – 10:30 1. Objectives of workshop – James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology and BIC coordinator.

 

Opening of workshop from Alvis Ancans, European Commission, Unit A2, International relations.

10:30 – 12:30 2. Strategic perspective (multi-lateral/ global approach);

 

Chair: Yolanda Ursa; Rapporteur: Karima Boudaoud.

 

Round table panellists click on name for slides): Yolanda UrsaAbhishek SharmaRado FaleticCamille TorrentiJulián Seseña Navarro, Barend Taute.

 

Format: 6 talks for 12 minutes each followed by 48 minutes of moderated discussion to arrive at agreement on answers to the following questions (and others raised in discussions):
+ current approaches seem to be heavily shifted towards bi-lateral cooperation only; should we consider ways to shift this balance to multi-lateral?
+ what can you do/not do multi-laterally?
+ What are the underlying activities that must be done on a multi-lateral basis to enable international cooperation?
+ What do we need to do to ensure interoperability of things?
+ What mechanisms are currently available?
+ What mechanisms are needed?
+ What would the success metrics for these types of projects?

12:30  Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 3. Tactical/operational perspective (bi-lateral approaches);

 

Chair Paul Cunningham, Rapporteur: Mounib Mekhilef.

 

Round table panellists: Paul Cunningham, Alberto Masoni, Katja Legiša, Kay Matzner, Ashok Kar, Priscila Solis Barreto

Format: 6 talks for 12 minutes each followed by 48 minutes of moderated discussion to arrive at agreement on answers to the following questions (and others raised in discussions):
+ lessons learned from Member State(s)–country (e.g. France– India) and/or EU – country (e.g. EU – India)
+ What are concrete – specific collaborative projects between EU and individual 3rd countries?
+ What mechanisms are currently available?
+ What are the barriers/obstacles?
+ What mechanisms are needed?
+ What would the success metrics for these types of projects?

15:30  Tea Break
16:00 – 17:00 4. How to best move forward.Chair: Julián Seseña Navarro; Rapporteur: Nick Papanikolaou.

 

Round table panellists: All chairs and rapporteurs from previous sessions. Julián Seseña Navarro; Mounib Mekhilef; Jim Clarke, Yolanda Ursa; Karima Boudaoud. Paul Cunningham; Nick Papanikolaou.

Format: Moderated discussions to arrive at conclusions, recommendations and ways forward.
+ Is there something required in between tactical and strategic? For example, mini – multi-laterals or joined multiple bi-laterals? Or would this be overly complicated?
+ Should there be an international advisory group monitoring the maturity levels as they develop into multi-lateral?
+ Based on your experiences, what is your resulting vision on where we should go?
+ What are the possibilities that you envisage?
+ What support is required to accomplish this vision?
+ Conclusions and what’s next / External actions & recommendations.

17:00 Workshop closes for Day 1

 

Day 2. 22nd June, 2012, DIAMANT Conference & Business Centre, Auguste Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium

Workshop title: BIC technical workshop on International Cooperation in Trustworthy ICT

Background: While the focus on Day 1 of the workshop will be on the requirements, mechanisms and processes involved in building a long term strategy towards international cooperation in the RTD programme in broader areas than just Trustworthy ICT, the focus on Day 2 will be on the two technical working groups of BIC, specifically dealing with Trustworthy ICT, namely,

1. WG1. Human oriented /citizen trust, privacy and security, which will focus on topics related to a multi-disciplinary approach for international cooperation amongst all stakeholders;

2. WG2. Network Information security / Cybersecurity, which will focus on topics related to the need for international cooperation for enabling the protection of networks and systems.

Objectives: The Workshop on Day 2 aims to facilitate the WGs to provide the following outcomes:

  • Refine thematic focus within the domains covered by the WGs by leveraging domain knowledge, familiarity with context and environment and research experience. Shortlist a set of actionable themes to be taken up in the EU-International joint research context.
  • Identify and validate long term common shared research perspectives for international cooperation of mutual interests, aligned with the ICT trust and security research domains within the EU research vision and priorities (FP7 and H2020);
  • Represent stakeholder views to be expressed toward the decision makers (the European Commission and the respective Governments for which they carry out research) in the formulation of enabling and relevant policies;
  • Provide expert advice to BIC in thematic areas of competence and direct the project consortium to material, publications, activities, projects that might be of interest to BIC, its objectives and actions;
  • Assist the BIC project to leverage its actions into achievements within the larger community of stakeholders and institutions. This would include being an advocate for the project and taking part in the organisation of local workshops to broaden the community of participants within their respective countries.

Day 2 Workshop Format: After the opening plenary session, the WG sessions consist of a series of discussions of identified topics for international cooperation in trustworthy ICT each led by nominated person(s) as a topic ‘animator(s)’. The animator(s) will open the topic with a short presentation and open the floor to all participants to actively involve themselves within the topics of their expertise. In the middle of the workshop, the breakout groups will return to plenary to reflect and take stock of where each WG is at that time. Ample time will be allotted to new topics of interest that might not have been raised already. The workshop will seek to provide tangible results along the lines of internal actions and work-items for the working groups and external recommendations and suggested actions towards the scoping of issues, priorities and topics for future INCO projects.

Agenda Day 2

 

09:30 – 10:00 Registration of participants
10:00 – 10:30 1. Welcoming and opening sessionOpening plenary
Objectives of workshop and recap from day 1 – James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology and BIC coordinator.

 

Opening and welcome from Martin Muehleck, European Commission, Unit F5, Trust and Security.

10:30 – 12:30
WGs in parallel break-out sessions
WG1 – Human oriented /citizen trust, privacy and security
Chair: Fernando Kraus Sanchez; Rapporteur: Henning Arendt
1.1 User centricity: Karima Boudaoud and Mounib Mekhilef
1.2 Privacy and data protection: Alan Hartman and Claudia Diaz
1.3 Trust Management in secure software: Fabio Martinelli
1.4 Accountability: Nick Papanikolaou.

 

WG2 – Network Information security / Cybersecurity
Chair: Michel Riguidel; Rapporteur: Jim Clarke
2.1 Emerging threats and actors: Sotiris Ioannidis
2.2 Int’l data exchange architecture for cooperation on cybersecurity and intelligence: John C. Mallery
2.3 Int’l approaches to cryptography: Bart Preneel
2.4 Mobile security: Abhishek Sharma
2.5 Digital forensics: Katrin Franke

12:30  Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 in plenary Plenary 1 – Summary of the picture so far:WG1 – Fernando Kraus Sanchez / Henning Arendt
WG2 – Michel Riguidel / Jim Clarke
Summarise on trends, commonalities, cross-overs, …
14:00 – 16:00
WGs in parallel break-out sessions
WG1 – Human oriented /citizen trust, privacy and security
Chair: Fernando Kraus Sanchez; Rapporteur: Henning Arendt
1.5 Data Provenance (verifying source and integrity of data): Priscila Solis Barreto.
1.6 Social computing: Marijke Coetzee
1.7 Global ecosystem of personalized user centric IDM: Lefteris Leontaridis
1.8 New topics (what else needs to be tackled?): Fernando Kraus Sanchez.

 

WG2 – Network Information security / Cybersecurity

Chair: Michel Riguidel; Rapporteur: Jim Clarke
2.6 Int’l approaches to critical infrastructure protection: Manmohan Chaturvedi
2.7 Security and Virtualisation: Syed Naqvi
2.8 Implications arising from identity and privacy related issues on a global scale: Alberto Crespo Garcia
2.9 New topics (what else needs to be tackled?): Michel Riguidel

16:00 – 17:00 in plenary Plenary 2 – How to best move forward.Round-table of all of the above chairs, rapporteurs and ‘animators’ to wrap up on summaries, conclusions and what is next:
- Summarise on trends, commonalities, cross-overs, …
- Internal ie. Working Groups action plans
- External actions & recommendations.
17:00 Workshop closes for Day 2

 

Full workshop report now available by clicking –> Final Report of Workshop

Organising Committee: An organising committee with experts from a number of relevant International cooperation (INCO) projects has been convened for the planning and organisational aspects of the Workshop. The BIC project is very grateful to the Organising Committee members. 

Name INCO Project(s)
Jim Clarke BIC
Paul Cunningham IST Africa
Laura de Nale EuroAfrica-P8
Rado Faletic FEEDAUS-ACCESS4EU, and PACE-Net
Ashok Kar EU – India Spirit
Fernando Kraus Sanchez BIC
Katja Legiša Synchroniser
Alberto Masoni Euro-IndiaGrid2
Kay Matzner OpenChina-ICT
Marcelo Pasin SECFUNET
Michel Riguidel BIC
Julián Seseña Navarro FIRST, FORESTASynchroniser
Neeraj Suri BIC
Barend Taute EuroAfrica-P8PAERIP
Camille Torrenti OpenChina-ICT, SEACOOPEuroAfrica-P8
Mounib Mekhilef IST-EC2 (EU funded project to foster research in ICT between Europe & Canada) 

A downloadable information pack of the BIC event can be found at BIC_WS_infopack_21-22June2012.


[1] 20th June 2012 Socio-Economic Certainties and Change for the Future Internet http://www.seserv.org and

21 – 22nd June 2012 Digital Agenda Assembly (DAA) http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/daa/

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