The ESCWA Cyber Legislation Digest
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An advanced search engine that allows the extraction and production of beneficial
reports from the portal.
Users of the Virtual Network
The users of the virtual network consist of two categories:
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Experts and professionals who will have special modes of registration, which would
provide special facilities such as the use of interactive tools and the participation in
web based discussions.
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Regular users who can register and have access to browse the portal as well as
download various documents, studies and reports.
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Advisory Services Offered by ESCWA
Throughout the Harmonization Project, ESCWA offered advisory services to its member
countries, notably the following:
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Oman: review cyber laws, one on e-commerce and the other on e-communications.
Palestine: review selected cyber laws.
Syria: review of five draft cyber laws.
Bahrain: to develop a gap analysis study between Bahraini cyber laws and the ESCWA
Cyber Legislation Directives.
5. Jordan: to review the e-Transactions and Privacy law.
6. Sudan: to arrange a national training workshop on the ESCWA Cyber Legislation
Directives.
7. Lebanon: To arrange a national seminar on cyber legislation addressed to the
parliament and lawyers.
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