The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has included the Best Practice Forums10 on
cybersecurity issues since 2014. Mexico hosted the IGF meeting in 2016, where
cybersecurity was considered a multifactorial phenomenon that is and will be a key
element for sustainable development.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) develops the Global Cybersecurity
Index, a survey11 that measures the commitment of countries on the subject on three
categories. Mexico, like other 76 countries, is in a “maturing” stage and only 21
countries are in the “leading” stage.
Within the framework of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) in the 2016 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting, the
participating countries committed to collaborating to take advantage of the digital
economy potential.12 Regarding cybersecurity, Mexico, together with 40 other
countries, endorsed the following 3 factors:
1. Reduce impediments to e-commerce within and across borders
2. Develop global technical standards that enable interoperability and a secure,
stable, open, and accessible Internet
3. Develop, with decision-makers, privacy and data protection strategies,
emphasizing transparency in the public sector.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the Organization of American States
(OAS) and the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) of the University of
Oxford, published the document Cybersecurity: Are We Ready in Latin America and
the Caribbean?13, which places Mexico at a low implementation level in the
components of Policy and Strategy, and Technologies.14
In the OAS, the cybersecurity program of the Inter-American Committee Against
Terrorism (CICTE), leads the hemispheric platform for international cooperation and
technical assistance in cybersecurity. Recently, the OAS agreed to the creation of a
Working Group on Confidence-Building Measures in Cyberspace, which seeks to
10 Best Practice Forums, available at: http://intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/best-practice-forums-4
11 International Telecommunication Union, Global Cybersecurity Index 2017 (July 19, 2017), available at:
https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/str/D-STR-GCI.01-2017 -R1-PDF-E.pdf
12 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Ministerial Declaration on the Digital
Economy: Innovation, Growth and Social Prosperity (June 23, 2016), available at:
http://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/declaracion-ministerial -sbore-the-digital-economy.htm
13 Inter-American Development Bank and the Organization of American States, Cybersecurity: Are we
Ready in Latin America and the Caribbean? (March 14, 2016), available at: https://digitaliadb.leadpages.co/ciberseguridad-en-la-region/
14 Its content will be updated by the end of 2017, which would give space to evaluate progress after the
definition of the ENCS.
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