The ESCWA Cyber Legislation Digest 5.11 2011 (September): First Workshop on ESCWA’s Six Directives ESCWA organized this workshop to disseminate and promote the six directives. The workshop took place at the ESCWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon on 13 to 15 September 2011. The workshop was attended by representatives from Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, The Kingdom of Bahrain, The Royal Kingdom of Jordan, The Sudan, The Sultanate of Oman, Yemen and ESCWA. Several papers were presented in the workshop by ESCWA staff and legal experts. These papers were mainly based on the six ESCWA cyber legislation directives11. The main recommendations which were agreed during the workshop included to: 1. Highlight the importance of the ESCWA cyber legislation directives. 2. Raise awareness of the directives and arrange specialized workshops on their use. 3. Reinforce the role of ESCWA in collaborating with regional and international organizations including the League of Arab States. 4. Maintain sustainability through the Project’s future activities including the planned virtual network. 5. Officially and regionally launch the six directives targeting the highest level of decision makers. 5.12 2011: Various Conferences and Workshops Several conferences and workshops took place in 2011 in which ESCWA presented its progress in cyber legislation and promoted the six directives: 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2011). Tallinn, Estonia during 26-28 September 2011.12 The Second Gulf Cooperation Council e-Government Awards and Conference. Kuwait, 13-15 November 2011.13 Arab Women Summit: Empowering Arab Women through ICT. Rabat, Morocco during 6-7 December 2011.14 The 5th Arab Conference for Industrial Information The Role of Information and Communication in the Transformation to a KnowledgeBased Society. 11 http://www.escwa.un.org/information/meetingdetails.asp?referenceNum=1439E 12 http://www.icegov2011.icegov.org/ http://egcc-kw-award.info/default.aspx 14 http://events.idc-cema.com/eng/events/48105-arab-women-summit/7-overview 13 41