Securing Digital Future 21* forum initiative has been started in 2017 with the support NATO Science for Peace & Security Programme, G.5257 grant, along with the celebration of 10 Years Anniversary of the Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Being at the rise of the new technological and social revolutionary transformations the idea is combining both – research & educational efforts for a sustainable knowledge development throughout a proven expert community. Today the forum with the social network segment is encompassing more than sixty countries, spread around the world.

*The name of the forum could be used interchangeably both in the long 'Securing Digital Future 21' & short form 'Secure Digital Future 21'.