Session
Organizer 1: Samaila Atsen Bako, 🔒CSEAN
Organizer 2: Elizabeth Kolade, 🔒Resilience Technologies
Speaker 1: Anna Rywczyńska, Technical Community, Eastern European Group
Speaker 2: Samaila Atsen Bako, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Kolade, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 4: Kyezonya Blessing Musa, Private Sector, African Group
Speaker 5: Samuel Omale, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 6: Amina Ramallan, Government, African Group
Amina Ramallan, Government, African Group
Samuel Omale, Civil Society, African Group
Kyezonya Blessing Musa, Private Sector, African Group
Round Table - 60 Min
Is the increase in cybercrime a result of poverty or greed?
Are legal deterrents sufficient to curb this menace of cybercrime?
Are preventive measures considered the most effective approach in stopping crime?
What will participants gain from attending this session? Understand why cybercrime is growing in Africa
Recommendations on how to produce cyber defenders in low income countries
Recommendations on how to leverage the potentials of the African youth to solve a global concern
Description:
Africa boasts a very large youth population with quite a number of countries have a median age of 25 and below. Countries like Nigeria, which has about 200 million people, also have an underemployment and unemployment issue. At the same time, there is an increase in the rate of cybercrime and cyberattacks across the continent, and the world at large. It is not news that there is a direct link between an increase in unemployment and an increase in crime or insecurity. As such, it is important to explore avenues to reposition the teeming African youth population to potentially fill the huge gap in the global cyber workforce, before they become further drawn towards the menace of cybercrime.
To consider initiatives the private sector, academia, and governments can execute to ensure the large youth population develops digital skills, including cybersecurity.
To wake each stakeholder up to its responsibilities in upskilling our youth and repositioning Africa in the 21st century.
To remind people that cybercrime is a global problem, so a global approach to resolving it must be adopted, and stereotyping will not do us any good.
Hybrid Format: All online and onsite participants will be an important part of the audience. Therefore, online and onsite moderators will ensure that there is a common queue of questions for online and onsite participants so that each group has the same priority to ask questions to the speakers, whether they are online or onsite. There will also be online speakers, which guarantees that adequate attention is given to those joining online.