The 5th Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) was held in New Delhi in November, 2017. Which of the following statements about GCCS is/are correct ? 1. The 4th version of GCCS was held in London. 2. The main theme of GCCS 2017 is ‘Cyber4All: A Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace for Sustainable Development’. 3. ‘Bindu’ is the logo of GCCS 2017. Select the correct answer using the code given below :
- (a)1 only
- (b)2 only
- (c)2 and 3 only
- (d)1, 2 and 3
Correct — C, 2 and 3 only. Statement 1 is the false one. London hosted the first conference of the series, in 2011, which is why the series is also called the London Process; the fourth was held at The Hague in 2015. Statement 2 is accurate — the New Delhi conference of November 2017 was held under the theme 'Cyber4All: A Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace for Sustainable Development', with four sub-themes styled Cyber4Growth, Cyber4DigitalInclusion, Cyber4Security and Cyber4Diplomacy. Statement 3 is also accurate — the conference logo was named Bindu, as recorded by the National e-Governance Division, the body under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology that organised the event.
- (a)1 only — This selects the single statement that is wrong and rejects the two that are right. The fourth conference was at The Hague, not London; London's conference was the first.
- (b)2 only — The theme is correctly quoted, so statement 2 does belong, but so does statement 3. Bindu was indeed the logo of the New Delhi conference.
- (d)1, 2 and 3 — This adds the London claim back in. The temptation is to assume that a conference series which began in London must have returned there, but the sequence ran London, Budapest, Seoul, The Hague and then New Delhi.
The Global Conference on Cyberspace, or London Process, is a series of international meetings on the governance of cyberspace, bringing together governments, industry, civil society and the technical community. The first was held in London in 2011 with about seven hundred participants; the second in Budapest in 2012, the third in Seoul in 2013 and the fourth at The Hague in 2015. India hosted the fifth at New Delhi on 23 and 24 November 2017, organised by the National e-Governance Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it drew some three thousand five hundred participants — by far the largest edition of the series.
Anchor to the exam. The conference had taken place five months before this paper was set, and it was the largest international meeting India had hosted on cyber policy, which is why the examiner treated it as worth three statements rather than one. The structure of the item is worth studying as much as its content: two of the three statements repeat detail from the official publicity — the theme and the logo — while the third quietly moves a host city. That is the standard way this examiner builds a statement item, by leaving the promotional facts intact and altering one piece of the series' history. On the present-day position, the published record of the series still ends with New Delhi in 2017; no sixth Global Conference on Cyberspace has followed it, so a candidate should not assume the sequence has continued.
- The GCCS series ran London 2011, Budapest 2012, Seoul 2013, The Hague 2015 and New Delhi 2017.
- London hosted the first conference, which is why the series is known as the London Process; the fourth was at The Hague.
- The New Delhi conference of 23-24 November 2017 had the theme 'Cyber4All: A Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace for Sustainable Development'.
- Its four sub-themes were Cyber4Growth, Cyber4DigitalInclusion, Cyber4Security and Cyber4Diplomacy; the logo was named Bindu.
- It was organised by the National e-Governance Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and drew about 3,500 participants.
- 1st — London, 2011, which gives the series its other name, the London Process
- 2nd — Budapest, 2012
- 3rd — Seoul, 2013
- 4th — The Hague, 2015 (the statement in this item says London, and is therefore false)
- 5th — New Delhi, 23-24 November 2017, theme Cyber4All, logo Bindu
Statement 1 fails on the fourth node; statements 2 and 3 both describe the fifth.
- Assuming a conference series returns to the city where it started.
- Rejecting a statement about a logo or a slogan because it seems too trivial to be examinable; this examiner uses exactly such details.
- Marking the all-three option when two of the statements come straight from official publicity and only the third has been altered.
NDA takes a major conference or summit hosted by India in the preceding year and tests its edition number, host city, theme, logo or slogan.
In India, it is legally mandatory for which of the following to report on cyber security incidents? 1. Service providers 2. Data centres 3. Body corporate Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 1 and 2 only
- (c) 3 only
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(d) 1, 2 and 3
The domestic side of the same subject, set in the year of the New Delhi conference — the reporting duty under the CERT-In rules made in exercise of the Information Technology Act.
The terms 'WannaCry, Petya and EternalBlue' sometimes mentioned in the news recently are related to
- (a) Exoplanets
- (b) Cryptocurrency
- (c) Cyber attacks
- (d) Mini satellites
Answer(c) Cyber attacks
The ransomware outbreaks of 2017 that gave the New Delhi conference its urgency, tested by UPSC two months after this paper.
Which one of the following Ministries has launched a new programme on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (ICPS) to foster and promote R&D ?
- (a) Ministry of Earth Sciences
- (b) Ministry of Science and Technology
- (c) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- (d) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Answer(b) Ministry of Science and Technology
A cyber-policy item from the paper immediately before this one, and the same test in disguise — attaching a named programme or conference to the ministry behind it.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Global Conference on Cyberspace is also known as
- (a)the Budapest Process
- (b)the London Process
- (c)the Hague Dialogue
- (d)the Seoul Framework
Answer(b) the London Process — after the city that hosted the first conference in 2011.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 5th Global Conference on Cyberspace at New Delhi in 2017 was organised under which ministry?
- (a)Ministry of Home Affairs
- (b)Ministry of External Affairs
- (c)Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- (d)Ministry of Defence
Answer(c) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology — through the National e-Governance Division.