Cyber security forum of the SCO kicked off today in Tashkent. The organizers of the forum are the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President, the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies, together with the executive committee of the regional anti-terrorist structure of the SCO.
The dialogue on information security issues is also taking place in a hybrid format with online foreign participants.
More than 30 experts from among the officials of relevant ministries and departments, scientific, academic and analytical circles of the SCO member states are participating in the forum. The initiative to hold this conference was put forward by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Dushanbe SCO summit on September 17, 2021.
The forum agenda is divided into 3 thematic sessions:
- Expanding access to information is an important factor for the development of modern society;
- Information and ideological threats and the development of effective response measures;
- Protection of objects of critical information infrastructure in the conditions of dynamic development of ICT.
In general, the organized event will strengthen regional cooperation and enhance the potential of the SCO member states in countering threats in the information and cyberspace.
