OBSE Sonference

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OSCE Political Public-Private Partnership
Conference
Partnership Of State Authorities, Civil Society
And The Business Community In Combating
Terrorism
Speaker Mark TVERDYNIN Director of Russian
Association Of Electronic Communications
(RAEC) Vienna31 May and 1 June 2007
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Speaker Mark TVERDYNIN Director of Russian
Association Of Electronic Communications
(RAEC) Tel. [phone] E-mail
mark_at_raec.ru Web www.RAEC.ru
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General Approach
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Dangers of terrorism in the Internet

• Cyberterrorism Hacker attacks with
  terrorist purposes
• Terrorist information in the Internet
• - raise of panic
• - terrorist propaganda

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Factors making Internet attractive for use in
purposes of terrorism

• Globality
• Easy for use and for authorization
• Broad audience
• Low cost
• Low risk for creation and distribution

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Mechanism of counter-terrorist activity
Civil-State Partnership (CSP)
CSP coordinated cooperation of state and civil
society on solving the problem

• In 2006 Russia adopted Partnership Strategy for
  State and Business in Counteracting Terrorism

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Role of mass media in counteracting terrorism
Mass media is the main partner in information
struggle against terrorism because they - Work
on the place of terrorist acts - Provide society
with information - Form the public opinion

• Russia has the Antiterrorist Convention
  voluntary rules for journalists working on
  terrorist acts and with the topic of terrorism
• Blogs and personal websites are regulated by
  personal ethical standards

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Anti-Terrorist Activity in Russian segment of
Internet
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Anti-Terrorist Activity in Russian segment of
Internet
counteraction in the field of information
protection from terrorist information
active
passive
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Active Protection
Discovering and termination of terrorist websites

• Hosted in Russia by the court of law
• Hosted outside Russia getting and transmitting
  evidence to law enforcement of appropriate
  country for reacting

• Hotline and Internet feedback are the means of
  antiterrorist partnership between the person and
  the state

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Passive Protection
Installation and use of computer programs and
devices blocking terrorist information (for ex.
at schools as part of National Project
Education)
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Politics of using the Internet
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Expert Council
Parents / Guardians
School teachers
Specialists
Professors, men of science
Cultural workers
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Russian case (RUnet)
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Anti-Terrorist Counteraction in the Field of
Information strong CSP tradition in Russia
State support of socially notable resources
Grants and financing from businesses
Civil society
Grants from Federal Agency on Press and Mass
Communications
National Program Independent Organizations
Against Terror
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Website participant of information struggle
against public threats
Usual content of such site in RUnet (Russian
segment of Internet) - Fresh news and
information - Research materials, scientific
reports - Advises what to do in case of terrorist
act - Recommendations on education programs -
Appeal to the active civil position
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Actual CSP levels for Russia

• State Non-government organizations
• Non-government organizations Person
• Level state - citizen is operative by direct
  addressation of people in government structures

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Initiatives in strenthening anti-terrorist CSP
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Anti-Terrorist Partnership
Support of self-regulation in Internet sphere
Reorienting Internet-ethics of users to
respecting the right of others to safe Internet
Attracting businesses to financial support of
anti-terrorist resources
Support in promoting such resources
Providing antiterrorist information end
educational methodics to teachers and parents
Respect of civil societys independence by the
state
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Bright cases CSP on the move (some All-Russia
projects)
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Bright examples CSP on the move

• Noticeable All-Russia projects demonstrating
  development of Civil-State Partnership
• - InfoForum
• International Conference Terrorism and
  electronic mass-media (iATR)
• Your Personal Internet project (voluntary
  content-filtering)
• RIF Russian Internet Forum
• Russian Internet-Marathon
• Premia Runeta (Russian Internet Award)

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Annual Russian Internet Forum (RIF)
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Annual Russian Internet Forum (RIF)
RIF takes place from 1996. From 2004 RIF has
official support by Federal Agency Federal
Agency on Press and Mass Communications. This
year RAEC and ROCIT carried out 11th Russian
Internet Forum (RIF2007), assembled more than 2
000 participants. The most noticeable result of
RIF2007 is the Memorandum Of Russian
Internet-Community CSP case.
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Annual Russian Internet Forum (RIF)
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Russian Internet Marathon
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Russian Internet Marathon
Russian internet Marathon Federal project,
popularizing and developing internet in Russian
regions. Marathon connected 12 cities in 2006.
Current year route (16 cities)

• MOSCOW (April 2007)
• KHABAROVSK (April 2007)
• USSURIYSK (April 2007)
• SAINT-PETERSBURG (May 2007)
• KHANTY-MANSIYSK (June 2007)
• TOMSK (June 2007)
• SAMARA (July 2007)
• TOLIATTI (July 2007)
• OMSK (July 2007)

• EKATERINBURG (August 2007)
• MURMANSK (August 2007)
• KRASNODAR (August 2007)
• SOCHI (August 2007)
• VLADIVOSTOK (September 2007)
• YAROSLAVL (September 2007)
• KALININGRAD (September 2007)
• MOSCOW (December 2007 )

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Russian Internet Marathon
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National Russian Internet Award PREMIA RUNETA
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National Russian Internet Award PREMIA RUNETA
PREMIA RUNETA initiative of NGO supported by
government (from 2004). The main criteria of the
Award social activity and society influence
of the nominating internet projects and
organizations, including anti-terrorism. Premia
Runeta 2007 special nomination for
anti-terrorism activity in the RUnet.
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National Russian Internet Award PREMIA RUNETA
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RAEC members
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RAEC members
More than 50 members leaders of RUnet. Among
them
VGTRK RosBisunessConsulting (RBC) Google-Russia
Kaspersky Laboratory ROCIT ITAR-TASS RU-CENTER IAT
R IIS Relcom InfoForum Regions.ru ArtStyle MEDIA
YellowPages.ru (Einro Rus-M) and others
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Russian Association Of Electronic Communications
(RAEC)