GC3B 2025
Core Program
The GC3B 2025 program is built around three pillars: Rethink, Evolve, and Anticipate. These pillars focus on exploring forward-thinking solutions and strategies to strengthen cyber capacity building through international multistakeholder collaboration. Featuring dynamic keynotes, thought-provoking panel discussions, interactive roundtables, and hands-on workshops, the 2025 edition aims to drive resource mobilization and deliver actionable insights to enhance global cooperation in cybersecurity.
Core Program
These sessions represent the core program for GC3B 2025. Stay tuned – the full program, including additional sessions selected through the Open Call, will be unveiled in early 2025!
RETHINK: Rethinking cyber in and for sustainable development
Title: Smart and sustainable cooperation for cyber resilience
Lead: The World Bank
What are innovative ways to mobilize a diverse range of financing and implementation modalities to meet the cybersecurity needs of developing countries? What lessons can we draw from past experiences to help the affordability and sustainability of cybersecurity solutions? How can we collaborate to do more and go farther – together?
Title: Secure, trusted and resilient infrastructure and connectivity
Lead: United States Government
How to embed a holistic risk management approach in de-risking development investments in critical infrastructure, essential services, backbone connectivity infrastructure, next generation networks, and digital public infrastructure? What changes do we need to promote in the stakeholders’ different cultures to ensure the cyber-resilient roll-out of digitally enabled infrastructures and services?
Title: The cyber challenge of the twin green-digital transition
Lead: Kingdom of the Netherlands
How can we ensure that investments in the digital transition, including in cybersecurity, align with sustainable climate solutions and support an effective twin digital-green transition? How can we foster the development of an open, robust, safe, secure, and cyber resilient twin transition in the technology ecosystem in Africa and beyond?
Title: Strengthening information integrity for human-centred development
Lead: CyberPeace Institute
With information integrity playing a critical role across development interventions (e.g. democratic governance, elections, stabilisation), what are the key cybersecurity and information manipulation challenges? What are the necessary steps to ensure that capacity building in the fields of cybersecurity and information manipulation reflect broader developmental goals?
EVOLVE: Pivoting to the next generation cyber capacity building
Title: Public-private partnerships for cyber resilient societies
Lead: Germany Government
What range of policy, regulatory, and financial incentives can promote private sector investments and public-private partnerships towards growing cybersecurity capacities and services? What are successful private sector involvement models in support of effective, affordable, and scalable cyber capacity building? How should cyber capacity building evolve to empower local players and locally led development?
Title: Enhancing effectiveness and accountability in cyber capacity building
Lead: Inter-American Development Bank
How can we leverage mutual accountability and transparency to drive more effective cyber capacity building results? What practices and incentives should guide the next generation of cyber cooperation to systematically foster a culture of results and improve data collection, monitoring, and statistical capacities?
Title: Effective cyber capacity building coordination models
Lead: European Union and Organization of American States
What processes and methods can improve the coordination of cyber capacity building investments and initiatives considering the persistent fragmentation of the cyber ecosystem? What is the value-added dimension of regional coordination initiatives, and is there a possibility for meaningful coordination at the international level to avoid overlapping efforts and exacerbating cyber inequities across countries? What are good examples of CCB division of labour agreements amongst development partners and how could this be systematised?
Title: Partnering on cyber skills and workforce
Lead: The World Economic Forum
What lessons can we draw from cases of successful public-private cooperation, government action, and market incentives that foster home-grown cybersecurity talent and services? How to integrate these in development programming, and how can countries with limited resources cooperate with global stakeholders to scale successful approaches and create a professional cybersecurity workforce?
Title: Integrating digital rights, gender, and inclusion in cyber capacity building
Leads: Mexico Government and Global Partners Digital
How can we promote cyber capacity building that is rights-based, gender-responsive, and inclusive by design? What concrete strategies, tools, and lessons we can use in cyber cooperation to empower all individuals, avoid replicating inequalities embedded in current practices, and ensure no one is left behind?
ANTICIPATE: Addressing new tech frontiers for cyber capacity building
Title: Building capacities to avert new technology divides
Lead: UNIDIR
What cybersecurity-related needs does the uptake of new and emerging technologies (e.g., AI, quantum computing, virtual worlds) create for developing countries and how can we avoid the emergence of new digital and security divides from unequal access to these technologies? How can they impact the future of cyber capacity building?
Title: Cyber resilience in the age of AI
Lead: Microsoft
What does the AI revolution mean for cyber capacity building? How do cyber capacity building efforts need to evolve to address security risks emanating from AI? How can AI support cyber capacity building efforts and make them more effective and sustainable?