The CyberSmartBW campaign came to its exciting conclusion yesterday with the presentation of Awards to some remarkably talented young people. Over the past 6 weeks a nationwide campaign, supported by Cyber4Dev, has searched for Botswana’s most innovative young communicators and challenged them to come up with creative videos on the subject of ‘being CyberSmart’. Awards … Read more
Cyber4Dev’s expert delegation enjoyed a productive and insightful week as part of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Conference in Addis Ababa. Our delegation from Mauritius, Rwanda and Botswana, accompanied by experts from Estonia, participated in a number of collaborative workshops and meetings on ways to continue to build the cyber resilience of African … Read more
The government of Sri Lanka announced the launch of Cyber4Dev on Tuesday 20th March at an event in Colombo. The programme will provide strong and focused support to the implementation of the previously announced National Information and Cyber Security Strategy. In his keynote address, Digital Infrastructure and Information Technology Minister Ajith P. Perera declared that … Read more
The Cyber4Dev project launch for Botswana was held at the Masa Square Hotel in Gaborone on 12 February 2019. The Minister for Transport and Communications, Mrs Dorcas Makgato gave the keynote speech in which she stated “this initiative is a function of a universal concern we have about emerging and potential threats and risks in … Read more
Cyber4Dev was officially launched on 7 February 2019 at the Labourdonnais Hotel Port Louis in Mauritius. The launch was organised in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade. Both the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo and the Minister for Technology, Communication and Innovation, Mr Yogida Sawmynaden spoke at … Read more
Cyber4Dev sponsored the attendance of representatives from Botswana, Mauritius and Sri Lanka at a FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) event on “Incident Response for Policymakers” in Estonia on January 2019. A study visit was arranged around the visit during which delegates had the opportunity to visit the e-Estonia Showroom and meet with … Read more
Cyber4Dev held its first event in Mauritius on 6 December 2018. Mr Martin Indrek Millar and Mr Raul Rikk delivered a seminar on Cyber Incident Management and Essential Services Protection. Mauritius has been identified as a Cyber4Dev priority country and work has commenced to identify areas in which the project can provide support.
Cyber4Dev implementing partner the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) attended Cyber Week events in Sri Lanka organised by SL-CERT on 7 November 2019. Mrs Liina Areng provided the key note address at the 11th Annual National Conference on Cyber Security on Building a Cyber Security Strategy: Building Resilience of a Digital Ecosystem, and took part … Read more
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