GLACY+  is a Joint project of the European Union (Instrument Contributing to Peace and Stability) and the Council of Europe.

GLACY+ is intended to extend the experience of the GLACY project (2013 – 2016) and supports nineteen priority and hub countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean region – Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Ghana, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste and Tonga. These countries may serve as hubs to share their experience within their respective regions.

Objectives:

To strengthen the capacities of States worldwide to apply legislation on cybercrime and electronic evidence and enhance their abilities for effective international cooperation in this area.

1. To promote consistent cybercrime legislation, policies and strategies;

2. To strengthen the capacity of police authorities to investigate cybercrime and engage in effective police-to-police cooperation with each other as well as with cybercrime units in Europe and other regions;

3. To enable criminal justice authorities to apply legislation and prosecute and adjudicate cases of cybercrime and electronic evidence and engage in international cooperation.

Activities

Back GLACY+: Inter-Ministerial Round Table on cyber security and cybercrime in West Africa, Ghana an ECOWAS best practice

GLACY+: Inter-Ministerial Round Table on cyber security and cybercrime in West Africa, Ghana an ECOWAS best practice

An Inter-Ministerial Round Table on cyber security and cybercrime in West Africa was held in Accra, Ghana, as high-level event of the Climax Week of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The meeting gathered together Ministers, diplomats and other dignitaries of countries from the ECOWAS Region, including Ministers from Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone. The meeting was chaired by the Minister for Communication of Ghana, co-chaired by ECOWAS and the Council of Europe, and attended by additional participants coming from Embassies of Burkina Faso Togo and Benin, Ministry of Communications of Nigeria, U.S. Department of State, UK High Commission.

 

A declaration was prepared in the end of the meeting, reporting the main take aways of the day, and will be formally submitted by the Ghanaian government to the next gathering of the ECOWAS Technical Committee.

 

During the meeting, ECOWAS Commission endorsed Ghana as the champion in the region on cyber security and cybercrime matters, requesting the country to act as “ambassador” in the field and share best practices with neighboring countries.

 

Accra, GHANA 21 October 2019
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