The UN First Committee Cyber Negotiations
摘要
This chapter provides an overview of the case study in focus, namely the UN First Committee cyber negotiations on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security. In doing so, it concisely discusses the origin, structure, key historical developments, as well as the actors involved with this negotiation process from their inception in 1998 up until the conclusion of the second Open-Ended Working Group in 2025 (the period under study). This is then followed by an examination of the negotiations’ knowledge base, which is found to have an active as well as an institutional dimension and be both tacit and explicit in nature. In determining the type, diversity and location of inputs composing the knowledge base, this examination sets the study up for identifying any practices that can be conceptualized as acts of Knowledge Management within these negotiations.