Policy Brief #54 / 2024
Policy Brief #54 / 2024
BRICS has successfully fulfilled its role as an international negotiating platform. For over a decade of its existence, member states have made hundreds of decisions on key issues on the agenda. The most general list of issues discussed within the framework of the association includes dozens of topics ranging from macroeconomic policy to countering extremism and terrorism, as well as the development of ICT and digital economy.
Numerous multilateral...
Humanity is entering another industrial revolution, and technological patterns are changing
In April 2024, the International Center for Social and Political Studies and Consulting International Center for Social and Political Studies and Consulting published the report
“Malicious Use of AI and Challenges to Psychological Security of BRICS Countries”
co-authored with the International Research Group on Threats to International Psychological Security through Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence...
... Arab Emirates and Ethiopia.
Digital cooperation is one of the critical and most sought-after issues within BRICS. The agenda had taken shape as an independent area by 2015 through the efforts of Russia, whose initiatives in the field of international information security were not limited to BRICS but also have been supported at the UN level for many years. In 2015, the first meeting of BRICS communications ministers was held in Moscow, where the priorities of multilateral ICT collaboration
were articulated
...
... multilateral initiatives, among which might be the reform of some of the key Internet governance institutions including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Internet Society, making them more transparent and accountable.
Also, the information security agenda might flourish without direct interference from the Western parties which intend to keep their privileged negotiation position during talks on cybersecurity and cyberwarfare.
Any tangible result is achievable if only the discussed ...
... prevailed. Yet, the OEWG keeps on working in the UN venues, which inspires certain optimism
September 2023 marks the 25
th
anniversary of Russia’s revolutionary move in 1998, as 25 years ago Russia became the first country to raise the issue of information security at the UN, having timely assessed the risks of the digital future. In those days, widespread digitalization was just gaining momentum and the flywheel of the global Internet spread and development started spinning faster. Nevertheless,...
... their making the security issues a major cornerstone, despite some differences in implementation practices. Russia pays much attention to diplomatic efforts and foreign policy initiatives in the field of digital sovereignty, emphasizing international information security (IIS). China, on the other hand, views digital sovereignty as an important element of protecting economically significant digital assets from cyber threats, as well as focusing on content control within the national segment of the ...
... could hardly be signed in the foreseeable future, so the most important task is to maintain the existing level of ties and relations
There have been periods of convergence and cooldown in U.S.-Russian relations on issues pertaining to international information security (IIS), the latter being witnessed by us today.
Moscow remains open to dialogue, advocating the rules of responsible conduct for governments, with a view to boosting peaceful development of the ICT environment, both globally and bilaterally....
... current international environment, the significance of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is steadily rising. In this context, international cooperation is gradually moving towards a legal architecture for ICT governance and international information security (IIS) as an integral part of the overall international security framework. One of the key global challenges on this path is cybercrime. In a broader sense, cybercrime can be defined as criminal activity related to the ICT environment....
Working Paper 71 / 2022
Working Paper 71 / 2022
Over the past few years, government efforts to regulate tech giants around the world have marked global long-term trends. The authors of this working paper take a closer look at recent key changes in Big Tech regulation both at the international level and in individual jurisdictions of the EU, USA, China and Russia, examining the different ways in which governments have tried to strike a regulatory balance between freedom and security, as well as...
... institutions, and simply wait until the consequences of AI become an even greater threat to international security. At the same time, strong support from state and non-state actors is required for such research that goes beyond such areas as cybersecurity and information security, as well as psychological security before the introduction of AI technologies, because we are talking about qualitatively different possibilities of causing irreparable damage to the development of human civilization than simply quantitative ...
