The ESCWA Cyber Legislation Digest 5. 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: 1. 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. 2. Regular users who can register and have access to browse the portal as well as download various documents, studies and reports. 3.7 Advisory Services Offered by ESCWA Throughout the Harmonization Project, ESCWA offered advisory services to its member countries, notably the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 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. 21

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