UNCTAD Initiatives on Cybercrime Ccile Barayre cecile barayreunctad

UNCTAD Initiatives on Cybercrime Cécile Barayre (cecile. barayre@unctad. org) Octopus 2015 June 18, 2015

UNCTAD's Toolbox on Cyberlaws q Three products: 1) Regional and national capacitybuilding workshops – Enhance awareness and skills of policy and law makers; – Work together to understand the issues and learn from good practices – Build networks at the regional level – Trainees become promoters of the reform process 2) Law revision and preparation of regional cyberlaw frameworks 3) Cyberlaw tracker and studies Geographical coverage • 20 least developed countries • Africa: 20 countries (ECOWAS, EAC) • Asia: 10 countries (ASEAN) • Latin America and the Caribbean: 33 countries • 2400 policy and law makers have been trained through more than 30 workshops

UNCTAD's partners • Partners include: • Programme funded by Finland, Korea and SELA

Cybercrime laws 2015 unctad. org/cyberlawtracker Source: UNCTAD.

Cybercrime laws rapidly enacted but enforcement is challenging Growing concern to all countries • • Estimated $2. 5 billion lost in online fraud in 2012 1. 5 million a day victim of cybercrimes in 2013 Greatest fraud losses for mobile merchants Io. T, Io. E Cybercrime difficult to investigate and to prosecute • Multiplicity of jurisdictions in a cloud environment • Lack of laws or interoperability • Lack of capacity of law enforcement agencies What can we do? • National strategy to combat cybercrime • Legislative measures, investigation mechanisms, CERTs • Awareness raising campaigns and capacity-building programs for law enforcement agencies • International and regional cooperation teamwork Source: Cybersource, Todd Neal

Thank you! cecile. barayre@unctad. org Unctad. org/ICT 4 D