Over 40 public officials and policy-makers responsible for development and implementation of Internet governance policy took part in the training «Internet and Human Rights On-line» which was organized by the Council of Europe under the support of the CoE/EU Eastern Partnership Programmatic Cooperation Framework Project “Freedom of media in Ukraine” and Legislation Institute of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 23-25 November 2016 in Kyiv.

As a result of the training, participants learned how the Internet and the policy actors in Internet ecosystem work. They found out how human rights apply online and ways in which human rights might be put at risk. The training participants gained insights into specific policy issues such as cybercrime, cybersecurity, surveillance, copyright protection etc.