India to Host Global Conference on Cyber Space 2017: A Giant Leap Towards a Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace

·         GCCS 2017 to be much bigger than its previous editions

·         The Curtain Raiser events to kick-off from 20^th November

·         A 36-hour Grand Finale of Global Cyber Challenge - Peace-a-thon to take place in the GCCS 2017

·         A nearly paperless event in which entire chain starting from pre-registration to travel to hotel booking to meals to session check in will be done through App and Web

India, for the first time ever, is going to host the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS), one of the world’s largest conferences in the field of Cyber Space and related issues, on 23 & 24 November 2017, at Aerocity, New Delhi. 

1. Incepted in 2011 in London,
   
2. Second GCCS was held in 2012 in Budapest with focus on relationship between internet rights and internet security, which was attended by 700 delegates from nearly 60 countries.
   
3. The third edition of GCCS was held in 2013 in Seoul with commitment to Open and Secure Cyberspace.
   
4. The fourth version GCCS 2015 was held on April 16-17, 2015 in The Hague, Netherlands which saw participation from 97 countries.
   
5. Cyber4All: A Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace for Sustainable Development, this is the fifth edition of GCCS , at New Delhi

 The overall goals of GCCS 2017 are to promote the importance of inclusiveness and human rights in global cyber policy, to defend the status quo of an open, interoperable and unregimented cyberspace, to create political commitment for capacity building initiatives to address the digital divide and assist countries, and to develop security solutions in a balanced fashion that duly acknowledge the importance of the private sector and technical community.