Misa Stankovic

Welcome back to the Geneva Dialogue! Since 2018, this international process has been focusing on responsible behavior in cyberspace and exploring ways to enhance cyber stability. Over the years, we've built a community with partners from diverse industries and  who are leading in digitisation, including the manufacturing of digital products. This year, the Geneva Dialogue is going to the next level. Led by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and implemented by Diplo with the support of C4DT, the Dialogue will focus on the implementation of cyber norms related to reducing vulnerabilities in digital products and supply chain security.

It’s been five years since the launch of an important dialogue in Geneva: the Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace. Since then, the dialogue has managed to gather a global multistakeholder community motivated to increase the security of our digital space, collect numerous good practices, and achieve political recognition, both globally and back home, in Switzerland – by becoming part of our national Digital Foreign Policy Strategy. Therefore, now is a convenient moment to outline the next steps – and initiate the next phase of the dialogue.