Workshop on Cyber security and Critical Infrastructures - A New Tool towards Sustainable Development in the European High North?

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Workshop on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructures - A New Improved Tool towards Sustainable Development in the European High North? February 22nd, 2019 Arranged by ISDP (Sweden)*/UiT (Norway)*/LSE IDEAS (London)*/LSE CIS (London)* Under the ‘ECoHuCy Project and Research Group”* Working Package 4: Climate Change, Environmental Threats and Cybersecurity” Organizers: Sandra Cassotta & Christer Pursiainen Venue: Room 9.04, 9th Floor, Fawcett House (FAW) Clement's Inn Passage, London WC2A 2AZ London School of Economics and Political Science (London) Purpose of the Workshop This interdisciplinary workshop scrutinize the potential effects of the improvement, or of the interruption, of Critical Infrastructures (CI) related activities due to prevailing cybersecurity conditions or cyber-threats to the society, the environment, economy, culture, health, and/or to the security of the planet. Focus topics of the Workshop The geographical focus of the workshop is on the effects observable in the European High North/Arctic Region. The focus topics examine the interdependencies between CI, cybersecurity, and the physical and social context of everyday life. The focus topics seek to individualize which sustainability-enhancing responses exist or should be set-up. The link between CI and cybersecurity can be studied thought the sustainability lens by examining interrelations between norms, practices and material cultures including social conditions as well as how these are shaped by external influence. Output of the Workshop The output of the workshop is to find common core focal points between three different spheres connecting cybersecurity and CI with the social context: 1) Cybersecurity and Environmental Conditions; 2) Cybersecurity and Cultural Conditions; and 3) Cybersecurity and Social Exclusion and to explore future cooperation between ECoHucy Group/UiT/ ISDP/LSE IDEAS/LSE CIS. *ISDP (Institute for Security and Development Policy), Stockholm, Sweden *UiT (The Arctic University of Norway) Tromø, Norway *LSE IDEAS (London School of Economics and Political Science - Foreign Policy Think-Thank), London *LSE CIS (London School of Economics and Political Science - Centre for International Studies), London *ECoHuCy - Research Project (Enablement besides Constrains: Human Security and a Cyber Multi-disciplinary Framework in the European High North) supported by Nordforsk from 2017-19 (Coordinating Institution, Artic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland) – Working Package 4, Climate Change, Environmental Threats and Cybersecurity 

Period	22 Feb 2019
Event type	Conference
Location	London, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International