which take privacy and protecting personal data into account throughout the
engineering process.
c) Promoting cybersecurity
19. We reaffirm our support for policies that improve cybersecurity as essential for the
development of a trustworthy digitally connected world. As part of our efforts to
address cybersecurity risks, threats and vulnerabilities, including those to ICT and
ICT-enabled critical infrastructures, we endeavor to strengthen international
collaboration, capacity building and public-private partnerships. We also support
risk management based approaches to cybersecurity including research on
methods to analyze threats and continue to work with all stakeholders on such
efforts also through constructive discussions in international fora.
20. To promote cybersecurity awareness, all stakeholders in the digitally connected
world must take active responsibility. To this end, we recognize the importance of
developing human capital to reduce threats to cybersecurity. That could be done
through training, education and increased awareness to enable citizens,
enterprises including critical infrastructure operators and governments to meet
their objectives in an efficient manner.
ⅲ. Fostering innovation
21. In order to foster innovation, we encourage the following actions.
a) Enabling open markets
22. We continue to encourage policies that foster open markets as a means to support
innovation. We affirm the importance of pro-competition policy approaches that
ensure fair and non-discriminatory treatment of companies and that avoid the use
of competition remedies to pursue industrial policy goals. We affirm that generally
applicable measures regulating technology products in the commercial sector
benefit from meaningful consultation with foreign governments, the private sector,
and all impacted stakeholders to encourage innovative, flexible, and cost-effective
solutions.
b) Promoting interoperability through standards
23. We promote the development of ICT standards including reference architecture
models that will continue to be industry-led primarily, voluntary and consensus
driven, based on principles of transparency, openness, impartiality, market needs
and coherence including those developed within traditional standard development
organizations.
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