- By ensuring cybersecurity in this manner, we will promote the achievement of the SDGs and help maintain cyber hygiene. Moreover, we will also support the capacity building not only through human resource development and cyber exercise, but also in understanding and practicing international legal principles, policy formation, and fields that form the nextgeneration cyber environment such as 5G and IoT. - Additionally, we will boost overseas business expansion in cybersecurity field, in line with “Infrastructure System Overseas Expansion Strategy 2025.” 23 - In addition to these efforts, we will radically enhance collaboration in the Indo-Pacific region in particular, including ASEAN. It will include diplomacy and national security in the cyber field, based on Japan’s achievements and experience of capacity building, in consideration of the region’s geopolitical significance. - We will update “The Cooperation for Cybersecurity Capacity Building in Developing Countries (The Basic Policy)24,” which is the basic policy for capacity building, along with formulating the new cybersecurity strategy, with a view to enhancing efforts that include government-industryacademia collaboration, diplomacy, and national security. 4. 4 Cross-Cutting Approaches to Cybersecurity - To achieve the three policy objectives set forth in the Basic Act, it is important to build a foundation by engaging in R&D, human resources development, and awareness-raising activities from a cross-cutting, medium- to long-term perspective. 4. 4. 1 Advancement of R&D - We will work to strengthen international competitiveness and build a government-industryacademia ecosystem from a medium- to long-term perspective. At the same time, we will use these as a foundation to advance practical R&D while taking medium- to long-term technological trends into consideration. (1) Strengthening international competitiveness in R&D and building a government-industryacademia ecosystem - The field of cybersecurity research is new and growing, with the number of papers submitted growing rapidly around the world. This is a field where active collaboration is seen, such as international co-authorship and papers written for government-industry-academia projects. Combined with the expanding use of digital technology, this has become an important field of research. 23 24 Finalized by the Infrastructure Strategy Economic Cooperation Meeting (December 2020) Cybersecurity Strategic Headquarters Report (October 2016) 32