During the Best Practice Forum on the Cybercrime Convention, Jean Charles de Cordes of the Council of Europe discussed the structure and content of the convention, as well as issues such as standards setting and monitoring compliance, while Cristos Velasco, Mexican representative of the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC), and Pavan Duggal from Cyberlaw India discussed the cybercrime legislation situation in their respective countries.
The Cybercrime Convention went into force in 2004 and currently has 22 ratifications and 43 signatures. During the Best Practice Forum on the Cybercrime Convention, Jean Charles de Cordes of the Council of Europe discussed the structure and content of the convention, as well as issues such as standards setting and monitoring compliance, while Cristos Velasco, Mexican representative of the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC), and Pavan Duggal from Cyberlaw India discussed the cybercrime situation in their respective countries.
Some useful examples of best practices emerged from the presentations, such as the E-crime Mexico group, convened in June 2007 by a diverse group of stakeholders including ISOC-Mix, NIC, MX, UNAM, banking associations, and other private-sector players. Pavan Duggal touched on the impact of the Information Technology law passed in 2000 in India, which defined cybercrime offenses and delimited the notion of ‘obscene’ electronic content. However, many questions linger concerning the Cybercrime convention which were not tackled in the forum, notably in regards to privacy and freedom of expression, two rights which need to be preserved in the battle against global cybercrime.