Dear colleagues, 

In this email I draw your attention to research currently being undertaken in the IGF’s Internet Standards, Security and Safety Coalition (IS3C). It has not been able to find volunteers from Europe and North America, the reason why I call on you with the request to conduct one interview. IS3C’s working group on education & skills works towards these goals: 

• To detect and resolve cyber security skill gaps in tertiary ICT education curricula; 
• To encourage tertiary educational institutions to include in their ICT curricula the essential skills, knowledge and understanding of security- related Internet standards and ICT best practices, building on current best practices, in order to bring tertiary education in line with emerging workforce requirements; 
• To strengthen collaboration between educational decision-takers and policy makers in governments and industry in order to align tertiary ICT curricula with the requirements of our cyber future; 
• To ensure effective collaboration between key stakeholders in order to keep tertiary ICT educational materials in step with new technologies and standards and prevent new skills gaps from developing. 

To identify the skill gap and determine current good practices, we are in search of people who have the expertise asked for and can "self-interview" or interview one colleague with experience in recruitement of recently graduated youths entering the work force.

The workload involves asking five questions and to report the answers in an interview reporting tool. Should you be able to assist the working group members, please contact me at denatrisconsult (at) hotmail (dot) nl so I can share further information with you. The results are open source and will be shared openly. 

More information on (how to join) IS3C you can find on the IGF website: 

https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/internet-standards-security-and-safety-coalition-is3c 

Best regards, 

Wout de Natris 

IS3C coordinator 

IS3C: Making the Internet more secure and safer