involvement and sought to raise awareness regarding the illicit revenues generated from counterfeiting, illicit cigarette trade and criminal influence in software piracy. Law enforcement officials from Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia participated in the training. On 15-16 October, the TNTD/SPMU participated in the “6th Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime”. At the conference, UNODC, inter alia, presented a new review mechanism to monitor the implementation of the UNTOC and its supplementing Protocols; as well as a new Digest of Organized Crime Cases. On 12-15 November, upon invitation from the Department for Intelligence and Security (DRS) of the Ministry of Defense of Algeria, a TNTD team comprised of representatives from the TNTD/ATU, TNTD/BU and TNTD/SPMU, together with colleagues from External Cooperation, visited Algeria. The visit was a follow-up to a meeting held in Vienna on 16 July 2012 between the TNTD and the DRS, who expressed interest in exploring possibilities for closer co-operation with the OSCE in the areas of anti-terrorism, borders management and combating drug trafficking and money laundering. Cyber Security/Cybercrime In February, the TNTD/SPMU visited Israel, one of the OSCE Partner for Co-operation Countries, for a series of meetings to discuss co-operation in the area of cybercrime. The meetings were organized through the Israeli Cyber Defence Institute. The experts represented a wide assortment of technical areas, ranging from basic cybercrime investigation curriculum developers to highly specialized investigative software designers. Along with discussing potential co-operation in the area of police training the participants also spoke about cybercrime country assessments and pre-instruction screening methodologies for students. On 7-8 March, the TNTD/SPMU addressed the “Anti-Phishing Working Group Seminar” in Dublin, organized by the University College Dublin’s Centre for Cybercrime Investigation. The event served as an opportunity for networking and exchanging ideas for researchers and professionals. The TNTD/SPMU supported the attendance of a total of 17 specialists from the participating States of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Montenegro. Several participants in the meeting were cybercrime investigators from the OSCE’s ongoing training projects to improve the capacity of cybercrime investigations in South-Eastern Europe. Topics covered during the event were: emerging transnational threats, trends, and forensic methods for combating cybercrime. On 8 March, the TNTD/SPMU, in co-operation with the TNTD/CC (POLIS Team), started an online expert discussion forum on “Developing an Online E-learning Module on Combating Child Abuse Online”. 45 registered experts participated in the forum that was running until the end of December. The module was expected to be used by law enforcement officers, police training institutions and other interested parties for blended and distant learning as well as for self-education purposes. On 6-7 December, the TNTD/SPMU organized an expert meeting in Vienna in the framework of the online forum project to discuss the e-learning module. The expert meeting brought together experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT), EUROPOL, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), INTERPOL, UNODC and the Austrian Police, contributing to the module’s content in separate chapters based on the specific expertise of their organizations. Project implementation was planned to continue during 2013. 27