International Conference on Crimes of the Digital Age to start on Feb 27

Kathmandu, Feb 25: The Office of the Attorney General is going to organize the International Conference on Crimes of the Digital Age: Anticipation and Response.     

Organizing a news conference on Tuesday, Attorney General Ramesh Badal said the two-day-long event will start on February 27 and is expected to unite experts to explore the growing intersection of AI, digital economic crime, and cyber-enabled crimes.     

It is said that the event will focus on innovative strategies for investigating, prosecuting, and preventing technology-driven crimes.     

The conference is expected to address the rapidly evolving challenges posed by crimes enabled by advanced technologies, with a focus on technology-facilitated sexual violence and abuse (TFSVA), cyber security crimes, cryptocurrency and related digital economic crime and AI-enabled crimes.     

More than 90 government attorneys, legal experts, judges and representatives from legal fraternities will attend from 13 nations including Nepal, the UK, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the Maldives, South Korea, Azerbaijan, India, China, Sri Lanka, Norway and Russia.     

From Nepal, the representatives from the Supreme Court, Nepal Rastra Bank, different ministries and other bodies will attend the conference where 16 working papers will be presented in various sessions.     

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is scheduled to inaugurate the conference.(RSS)