In this context, the Latin American and Caribbean Cyber Competence Centre (LAC4), together with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies of Colombia, is promoting an initiative to strengthen the country’s capacities to address challenges related to the electoral information environment. The rapid spread of content through social media platforms, messaging applications, synthetic media, and other digital platforms presents new challenges for electoral authorities, public institutions, civil society, and cybersecurity actors.

The program aims to strengthen Colombia’s capacities to respond to electoral disinformation and influence operations through a practical and interactive methodology that will include case studies, group exercises, simulations, and expert-led sessions.

The program aims to:

• Develop a shared understanding of key concepts such as disinformation, misinformation, illicit influence operations, hybrid threats, and electoral information risks.
• Enhance participants’ ability to identify the actors, tactics, techniques, and procedures used in electoral influence operations.
• Introduce practical OSINT, detection, documentation, and behavior assessment methodologies, including DISARM Red and incident logging.
• Provide participants with practical tools and templates that can be adapted to their institutional context, including incident templates, escalation matrices, and stakeholder and priority mapping tools.

By invitation only