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G20 members offer a number of practical ideas on how digital security can be improved.

The G20 digital economy ministers, who met in India last Saturday, proposed an interesting idea — to develop a concept for digital public infrastructure systems that includes three elements:

• Technologies in the form of interconnected and reusable digital systems and applications that can be applied in different areas.
• Governance standards that establish human rights, personal data protection, and intellectual property.
• A community of private sector and civil society actors that will effectively cooperate with each other in this area.

Read more about the concept in the final document of the meeting. It is described as the principles of creating a reliable, inclusive and sustainable digital state infrastructure.

The ministerial meeting also proposed a set of"High-level Principles to support businesses in ensuring security, resilience and trust in the digital economy." This document highlights ways to improve the private sector's information security capacity to protect supply chains, improve the resilience of critical services, and encourage mechanisms to compensate organizations affected by cyber attacks.

Another fruit of the meeting was the "Toolkit for Cyber Education and cyber Awareness of children and young people" - the result of a study on how to minimize the risks that young people face on the Internet.

The toolkit recommends five approaches for consideration by policy makers developing cyber education and awareness-raising initiatives for children and young people:

• Classification of risks and responses by age group;
• Investing in response, referral, and support systems;
• Implement a multi-stakeholder approach throughout the entire decision-making process;
• Promote global collaboration to ensure children's online safety;
• Recognition of the crucial role of business and online platforms.

Thus, at the G20 meeting in India, another step was taken towards developing global approaches to creating a secure and inclusive digital environment.

Although the adopted documents are advisory in nature, they demonstrate a growing understanding that the challenges of digitalization require governments, businesses and civil society to join forces to make new technologies work for the benefit of humanity.