Law, Tech, Humanity, and Trust

Event desciption

As armed conflicts increasingly extend into cyberspace, the imperative to protect medical and humanitarian digital infrastructure has become more urgent than ever. The protection of medical and humanitarian activities are among the oldest rules of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and requires parties to conflict to not only refrain from attacking them – but to respect and protect them. The distinctive emblem of the Red Cross, Red Crescent, and Red Crystal signal this specific protection in the physical world – but today, there is no way to signal it for digital assets.