The Legal and Judicial Training Centre will hold the “Seminar on Internet Crimes: From Global Challenges to Small Countries Response” from March 28 to April 1, 5:00 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the Auditorium of the Law Reform and International Law Bureau (CNAC Building, 6th floor). The Seminar, being part of the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, will be hosted by Dr. Marco Gercke, Professor at the Cologne University and Director of the Institute for Cybercrime Studies in Germany; and Dr. Anna-Maria Talihärm, Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. The Seminar, conducted in English with simultaneous translation into Cantonese and Portuguese, will cover the following topics: 1. Development of Computer Crime and Internet Crime; 2. Lessons learnt from the past and recent trends;
3. Statistical information;
4. Challenges of Fighting Cybercrime;
5. New investigation instruments and strategies;
6. International approaches in fighting Cybercrime;
7. European legal instruments in fighting Cybercrime;
8. Small countries response to Cybercrime;
9. An overview about the response to Cybercrime in the Pacific and Caribbean – experiences from two EU-funded projects;
10. Case example: Estonia;
11. New trends and changing targets;
12. Attacks against critical infrastructure. The seminar aims to analyse the new phenomenon in the area of internet crime and its associated risks, vulnerabilities and challenges. In an ever-increasingly interconnected globalised world, this phenomenon is assuming an increasing transnational nature, especially from small countries' perspectives. The understanding of the measures taken in the international community to address these problems will contribute significantly to the prevention of that crime and heighten the capacity to fight it. The 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and will take place until December 2012. The execution of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the Law Reform and International Law Bureau, organized by the different MSAR's entities and public departments, namely, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services, the Financial Services Bureau and the Institute of European Studies of Macau.
