A/69/112/Add.1 Sweden [Original: English] [12 September 2014] While the development of cyberspace generates almost limitless opportunities, security concerns relating to the use of information technologies and telecommunications need to be properly addressed through international cooperation. In Sweden, the work on the national information technology security strategy has evolved over time and the Government is currently working on a national strategy on cybersecurity. The Swedish Defence Commission has recently made assessments relating to cybersecurity and cyberdefence, stressing the need for an increase in Sweden’s overall cybersecurity capabilities. Sweden participates and contributes actively in various international cyberspace forums, while also seeking bilateral and regional dialogues on cyber issues, including in the Nordic-Baltic region. Sweden has focused in particular on promoting human rights in cyberspace and the multi-stakeholder model for Internet governance, as well as the need for fundamental principles to guide international surveillance activities. Sweden advocates a consistent European Union cyber policy based on the European Union’s fundamental values and interests. A key development was the adoption in 2013 of the comprehensive European Union Cybersecurity Strategy. Sweden was one of the initiators of the Freedom Online Coalition, a group committed to advancing Internet freedom worldwide. For three consecutive years, Sweden has hosted the Stockholm Internet Forum, a multi-stakeholder conference aimed at deepening discussions on Internet freedom and global development. Sweden was among a core group of States that initiated Human Rights Counci l resolution 20/8 (2012), in which the Council affirmed that the same rights that individuals have offline must be protected online. In three consecutive years, Sweden introduced joint statements in the First Committee of the General Assembly, pointing out, inter alia, the need to maintain a human rights and multi-stakeholder perspective when addressing information and communication technologies and international security. Sweden also contributed actively to the adoption of the initial set of OSCE confidence-building measures to reduce the risks of conflict stemming from the use of information and communication technologies and to increase transparency, stressing in particular the respect for and promotion of human rights. Global efforts should be made to formulate core principles to guide the use of information and communication technologies and international relations in cyberspace; some tentative concepts are suggested below. The international community, including all stakeholders, should engage in practi cal collaboration efforts to strengthen cybersecurity, which could include the establishment of a voluntary set of rules of behaviour or standards of international conduct in cyberspace. Global actors should work towards developing confidence -building measures to increase transparency and predictability, thus reducing the risk of misperceptions or conflict in cyberspace. The full text of the submission by Sweden can be found at http://www.un.org/ disarmament/topics/informationsecurity/. 6/6 14-61130