BGA and UNDP have signed a two-year agreement to strengthen cybersecurity knowledge and support safer digital services.
The Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA), a non-profit initiative founded by Bybit, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement to strengthen cybersecurity capabilities for the responsible use of digital technologies in development.
The two-year programme was announced at the Cybersecurity, Trust and Digital Safety Launch Summit in Singapore. The agreement was signed by Edward Vrkić, UNDP’s Resident Representative to Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, and Helen Liu, Founder of BGA, at the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development.
The initiative comes as public institutions increasingly rely on digital systems to manage identity and payments. The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is also creating new cybersecurity challenges, with attacks becoming more sophisticated.
The programme will be implemented by UNDP’s Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab) in collaboration with BGA. Over two years, it will draw on cybersecurity expertise from BGA’s ecosystem to support learning through the SDG Blockchain Accelerator and the Government Blockchain Academy, as well as dedicated sessions for interested UNDP country offices and relevant government counterparts.
The programme will provide learning and advisory support covering data protection, secure digital payments and the security of public digital services.
Robert Pašičko, UNDP AltFinLab Team Lead, said: “Strengthening cybersecurity capacities and building resilient, trusted digital systems are essential to addressing these risks. We welcome the opportunity to deepen our collaboration with the BGA, drawing on its expertise and experience.”
Helen Liu, Founder of the BGA, added: “The industry BGA comes from has learned about cybersecurity and digital safety the hard way. This partnership puts what it learned to work for the public good.”
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