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1 Aug 2024

Air Marshal Zahid Mehmood (Retd) Director, Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies, Islamabad Introduction As the moderator of the roundtable, Air Marshal Zahid Mehmood (Retd) laid the groundwork for the discussion by outlining the concept of ‘Global Commons’, explaining the historical and contemporary challenges of governing shared natural resources beyond national jurisdictions -like the oceans,. [...] He referenced various national and international efforts to address cyberspace governance, including the ICANN and W3C standards for data handling and web communication, and the varied success of legal frameworks like the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. [...] Specifically, in the subdomain of social media, he addressed the challenges of content moderation and the prevention of misinformation, hate speech, and harmful content. [...] He shed light on the long process from that point to the development of a National Cyber Security 10 Cyberspace as a Global Common: Formulation and Applicability of International Law Policy in 2021, as well as the establishment of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) and the Data Privacy Commission, now independent bodies. [...] He remarked that the Cyber Security Policy was specifically brought to the Defence and Production Committee because cyber security is a matter of national defence and advocated that it should not be under the Ministry of IT.

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