Establishing Cyber Sovereignty – Russia Follows China’s Example
In early March 2018 there were mass demonstrations in several Russian cities.
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Information Warfare
What Is Wrong With Our Strategic Communications?
No serious Western conference on security or international relations could take place these days without admiring the problem of disinformation.
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ICDS “Resilient Ukraine” To Support Local and Regional Authorities in Fixing Communications Vulnerabilities in South-East Ukraine
The ICDS has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Mykolaiv City Council and Kherson Regional State Administration in south-eastern Ukraine to conduct jointly a comprehensive study aimed at identifying vulnerabilities in information, communications and cybersecurity. The study will be managed within the framework of the “Resilient Ukraine” programme supported by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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ICDS “Resilient Ukraine” Team Develops Research Tool to Identify Communications Gaps and Threats
Dmitri Teperik, Ivo Juurvee and Grigori Senkiv of the ICDS “Resilient Ukraine” team developed, together with some 20 Ukrainian and Estonian experts, a research tool for identifying gaps in and threats to information, communications and cybersecurity during a workshop in Odessa, Ukraine on 26–27 January.
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Teperik at the Europe-Ukraine Forum 2019: We Should Admit That Debunking Fake News Doesn’t Work
“Since disinformation is very systematic by nature, our response must also be systematic, not sporadic or project-based. We should admit that debunking fake news does not work,” stressed Dmitri Teperik, Chief Executive of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), at the Europe-Ukraine Forum 2019 “Ukraine After 2019: A Change or a Continuation?” in Rzeszow, Poland on 24–25 January.
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Who Benefits from Our Communications Illiteracy?
It is becoming harder to ignore the fact that many Western experts and a certain interested section of the public are spending disproportionate amounts of time speculating about the personal and social vulnerabilities associated with the spread of so-called computational propaganda—technogenic disinformation produced on an industrial scale and distributed openly by bots or other semi-automatic methods.
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Dmitri Teperik Presented “Resilient Ukraine” at TUT
ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik was invited to introduce the continuing development cooperation programme “Resilient Ukraine 2018-2020” to the international master students at the Tallinn University of Technology.
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International Autumn School Resilience League 2018 on Cognitive Resilience and Strategic Communication
Around 50 young professionals and experts from the Baltic states and Ukraine participated in the International Autumn School Resilience League 2018 on cognitive resilience and strategic communication.
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ICDS Contributes to Development of Cyber and Informational Resilience in Ukraine
ICDS team continues to realise the Estonian-Ukrainian development cooperation programme Resilient Ukraine 2018-2020, which supports the implementation of Ukraine’s decentralization reform through human capacity development for cyber and informational resilience at regional level of governance in East and South Ukraine.
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Hacks, Leaks and Disruptions – Russian Cyber Strategies
ICDS contributes to the Chaillot Papers of the European Union Institute for the Strategic Studies (EUISS).
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