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Course

Activism in cyberspace as a hybrid threats counter

Academic year 2023-2024

Jean Monnet Module Erasmus+

“Civil society in conflict resolution process:

the EU experience for Ukraine”

101084973 — EURoCoRP — ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH

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ACTIVISM IN CYBERSPACE AS A HYBRID THREATS COUNTER

Course Content (1)

Topic: 1: Hybrid threats in social networks: the realities of the XXI century.

Topic 2: Classification of social networks.

Topic 3: Mechanisms of inciting conflicts in social networks.

Topic 4: Types of information influences.

Topic 5: Infodemia and Information Chaos.

Topic 6: Public practice of counteracting misinformation and propaganda.

Topic 7: Media literacy.

Topic 8: Development of Soft skills to counter misinformation and propaganda.

Topic 9: European information policy.

Topic 10: Information policy of Ukraine.

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Topic 11: Regulatory regulation of information security.

Topic 12: Anti-disinformation policy: EU practice, implementation in Ukraine.

Topic 13: EU Disinformation Organization.

Topic 14: Information warfare and operations of influence.

Topic 15: Cyberwarfare - threat awareness and counteraction.

Topic 16: Attacking information weapon.

Topic 17: New technologies in mitigating and countering hybrid threats.

Topic 18: Information security and cybersecurity.

Topic 19: Regulatory and Legal Enforcement of Cyber Security in Countries of the European Union: The Experience for Ukraine.

Topic 20: The vulnerability of cyberspace: Ukraine.

ACTIVISM IN CYBERSPACE AS A HYBRID THREATS COUNTER

Course Content (2)

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Topic 10: Information policy of Ukraine

  • Legal support of the state information policy in Ukraine
  • Institutional support of information policy in Ukraine
  • Ukraine's integration into the European information space
  • Foreign political factors influencing the information policy of Ukraine
  • Information presence of Ukraine in the world

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Legal support of the state information policy in Ukraine�

LAWS OF UKRAINE:

“On information“

“On access to public information“

“On the appeal of citizens“

“On state support of mass media, guarantees of professional activity and social protection of journalists“

“On ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens and the legal regime in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine“

“On ensuring the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons“

“On public media of Ukraine“

“On media"

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Institutional support of information policy in Ukraine

  • The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine (MCIP) is the central executive authority which activities are directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
  • The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy is the principal body within the system of central executive authorities responsible for shaping and implementing state policies in the fields of culture, state language policy, promoting Ukraine worldwide, state foreign-language broadcasting, information sovereignty of Ukraine (in terms of managing the integral property complex of the Ukrainian National Information Agency “Ukrinform”), information security, as well as for shaping and implementing state policies in the areas of restoring and preserving national memory, arts, cultural heritage protection, museum affairs, export, import, and return of cultural values.

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Ukraine's integration into the European information space

  • EUROPEAN INTEGRATION is the rapprochement of Ukraine with the European Union both at the level of laws and customs existing in society. Its ultimate result should be accession of Ukraine to the EU.

Strategies and programs for the formation of the European information society

  • Сentral contact service;
  • Publications office of the European Union;
  • The «European Union around me» map;
  • eEurope – An Information Society for All;
  • European strategy for data;
  • EU Digital Strategy 2030.

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��Foreign political factors influencing the information policy of Ukraine�

Communications related threats in relation to the pursuance of the needs of an individual, citizen, society and the state in terms of production, consumption, dissemination and development of the national strategic content and information are as follows:

  1. external negative information influence on human and public consciousness through mass media and the Internet, exerted to the detriment of the state with the aim of: attempting to alter an individual’s mental or emotional state, their psychological and physiological characteristics; influencing freedom of choice by cultivating a culture of violence and cruelty, insolence and contempt for human and national dignity, inciting religious, racial or ethnic hatred and discrimination based on any ground such as ethnic origin, language, religion, etc.; calling for separatism, overthrow of the constitutional order or violation of the country’s territorial integrity;
  2. information influence upon Ukraine’s population, including military personnel and mobilisation reinforcement pool, to impair defence readiness and undermine the image of service in the military.

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Information presence of Ukraine in the world

The issue of image policy of the state is emphasized to be able to quickly transform into significant negative consequences for national security, and thus, state government bodies should make informed decisions to have qualitative and efficient influence on the formation of the positive image of Ukraine in the world. Therefore, the idea under which the international image of Ukraine shall be formed due to business relations, via cultural exchange, mass media, which are powerful forces of formation of a positive view of Ukraine, is offered. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is stated to be the central institution engaged in the problem of formation of the image of Ukraine. Obviously, this arouses above all from functions and tasks, which are traditionally set before the the foreign policy department of the state.

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Sources

  1. Bruggemann M. Information policy and the public sphere: EU communications and the promises of dialogue and transparency. Javnost-The Рublic. Vol. 17. № 1. 2010. Р. 5-22.
  2. Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93. EUR-Lex. URL: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32008R0765 (дата звернення: 21.05.2022).
  3. Roshko S. Problems and prospects of the European integration of Ukrainian economy. Krakow, Polska, 2018. P. 113-118. URL: https://dspace.uzhnu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/lib/22246 (дата звернення: 15.05.2022).
  4. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area: A New Legal Instrument for EU Integration Without Membership by Guillaume Van der Loo. Boston/Leiden, 2016. 434 p.
  5. Yakymenko Y. Ukraine on the path to the EU: citizens’ opinions and hopes. TEPSA Briefs. 2018. 6 p. URL: http://www.tepsa.eu/wpcontent/uploads/2018/10/Ukrainian_brief_finalversion.pdf (дата звернення: 21.05.2022).

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Jean Monnet Actions

Useful links

EURoCoRP

Ostroh Academy, NU

European Commission

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Thank you for attention!

Prof. in charge – Dmytro Shevchuk, Doc. Sci.

Co-Lecturer - Sergii Ishchuk, Doc. Sci.

Co-Lecturer - Tetiana Sydoruk, Doc. Sci.

Co-Lecturer - Kateryna Yakunina, PhD

Co-Lecturer - Olena Shershnova, PhD

The National University of Ostroh Academy

https://www.oa.edu.ua/

https://eurocorp.oa.edu.ua/