DAVOS: Emphasising that cybersecurity is crucial to keep the world safe, global leaders have urged India and the US to join an international coalition against cyber threats.
“The world’s biggest democracy needs to stand with the world’s other great democratic nations. The world needs India,” Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer Bradford L Smith said here at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019.
Participating in a panel discussion on ‘A new architecture for cyber cooperation’, he said, “It is really about keeping the world safe.”
The world depends on digital infrastructure, it depends on our devices, and they’re under attack every single day, he said.
During the discussion, Smith and other experts hoped that democracies which have not signed the Paris Call of November 12, 2018 for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, including India and the US, will join the multi-stakeholder initiative.
They called for a “coalition of the willing” to embrace the Paris Call, a multi-stakeholder declaration that favours the development of common principles for securing cyberspace.
The Paris Call has been signed by 64 states, more than 300 private-sector companies and over 150 NGOs and other civil society organisations. (AGENCIES)
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