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Subject: State Dept: Promoting Openness, Security and Prosperity in a Networked
World
International Cyber Diplomacy: Promoting Openness, Security and Prosperity in a
Networked World
Fact Sheet
State Department,
Bureau of Public Affairs
July 14, 2011
“We seek to maximize the Internet’s tremendous capacity to accelerate human
progress,
while sharpening our response and our tools to deal with the threats…that are
part of cyberspace.” — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have
identified cyber issues as a key priority
of American foreign policy. The President issued a National Cyberspace Policy
Review in 2009. In May 2011, the
Administration released an International Strategy for Cyberspace, which lays
out our foreign policy priorities regarding cyberspace. Secretary Clinton has
described these priorities as “a new foreign policy imperative for which the
State Department has been exercising and will continue to have a leading role.”
The United States' International Cyber Policy Priorities
* Promote innovative, open markets
* Enhance security, reliability, and resilience of
global networks
* Extend law enforcement collaboration and the rule of
law
* Prepare for 21st century security challenges
* Promote effective and inclusive Internet governance
structures
* Build capacity, security, and prosperity through
international development
* Support fundamental freedoms and privacy
Vision for the Future
As detailed in the International Strategy for Cyberspace, the United States
seeks a cyberspace environment that rewards innovation; empowers individuals;
strengthens communities; builds better governments; expands accountability;
safeguards human rights and fundamental freedoms; enhances personal privacy; and
strengthens
national and international security. As Secretary Clinton has said,
building a global consensus around this vision will take “patient, persistent
and creative diplomacy.”
Cyber Diplomacy
The Department of State’s “cyber diplomacy” encompasses a wide range of U.S.
interests in cyberspace. These include not only cyber security and Internet
freedom, but also Internet governance, military uses of the Internet,
innovation, and economic growth. Cyberspace has also become a foreign policy
issue in multilateral fora, in our bilateral relationships, and in our
relationships with industry and
civil society.
What the State Department Is Doing
In partnership with other countries, the State Department is leading the
U.S. Government’s efforts to build consensus around international norms of
state behavior in cyberspace. To more effectively advance the full range of
U.S. interests in cyberspace, Secretary Clinton established the Office of the
Coordinator for Cyber Issues in February 2011. The office’s responsibilities
include bringing together the many elements in the State Department working on
cyber issues; coordinating the Department’s global diplomatic activities on
cyber issues; advising the Secretary on cyber issues and engagements; and
serving as a liaison to public and private entities on cyber issues.
Secretary Clinton and Cyber Policy
Secretary Clinton is a leading voice in international cyber policy. Under her
leadership, the State Department is integrating cyber issues into programming
across the board, from our cooperation with other nations to stop criminal
cartels to our economic diplomacy to our support for women and girls worldwide.
The Department is sponsoring capacity-building efforts to help more countries
play a role in the development of the Internet. It is supporting the efforts of
human rights and democracy activists to ensure they have access to an open
Internet. And it has created a 21st century statecraft agenda to harness new
technologies to achieve our diplomatic and development goals.
For more information, go to www.state.gov/cyber.
James Ssemakula
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