Arab and African efforts to confront cybercrime in the period 2010-2023

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the Arab and African efforts related to confronting cybercrime, especially in light of the difficulty faced by investigation procedures in this type of crime represented in concealing the crime and the ease and speed of erasing or destroying evidence and features of the crime and the extremely large amount of data to be examined on the network, and to achieve the objectives of the study The researcher relied on the descriptive research method, by analyzing the texts of the conventions on cybercrime and judicial rulings, if any, and the study reached a set of results, most notably: that the Arab countries have intensified their efforts to reduce cybercrime due to the dangers that these crimes entail. Exorbitant losses are inflicted on institutions and individuals, as it aims to attack data with its broad technical implications (data, information, and programs of all kinds). The countries of the world, regardless of their distance and proximity when they were committed, and the necessity of qualifying and developing the judicial police officers on the technical and modern methods used in these crimes, and training them on the measures that must be taken in this field, in order to expedite the detection and tracking of the crime, in order not to lose the evidence. More advanced technology.