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Johan BergenäsDeputy Director, Managing Across
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1111 19th St., NW 12th FloorWashington, DC 20036
(202) [email protected]
Do Good, Keep Us Safe, Make Profit:Do Good, Keep Us Safe, Make Profit:
The Role of The Role of TechnologyTechnology and and CorporationsCorporations for Economic for Economic
Development and Global SecurityDevelopment and Global Security
1 Mars, 20121 Mars, 2012Uppsala UniversityUppsala University
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Technology is good and bad
Food or war Electricity or nuclear weapons
Question we should ask:
How and why do we use high tech and corporations as instruments to do good?
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Controversial topic
• Corporations only want to make money
• Corporations are only responsible to their shareholders
• Corporations don’t care about public policy or the common good
• Technology can help people, but it can also be used for immoral/illegal purposes, as a means to clamp down on citizens in dictatorships
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What to ExpectWhat to Expect
• Role for technology and the private sector in building a framework for security and economic development
• Sustainable development through security capacity building (using technology and corporations as instruments for good)
• Modern 21st century “whole of society” solutions: from a Military-Industrial Complex to a Development-Industrial Complex
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The Managing Across Boundaries ProgramThe Managing Across Boundaries Program““Whole of Society Solutions to Transnational Whole of Society Solutions to Transnational
ChallengesChallenges””
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Defining and Emerging Trends in International Relations Today
• Intensified focus on the nexus between security and development
• “Whole of government” “Whole of Society” solutions to global challenges
• Increased emphasis on technology as an antidote to 21st-century security threats and development challenges
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Increased Emphasis on Technology as an Antidote to 21st-Century Security Threats and Development
Challenges:Indicators From Multinational Organizations
Millennium Development Goal #8 target:
The private sector is an important collaborative partner in “mak[ing] available the benefits of new technologies” to “develop a global partnership for development.”
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Preventing this?
Increased Emphasis on Technology as an Antidote to 21st-Century Security Threats and Development
Challenges:Indicators From Multinational Organizations
Or furthering this?
The International Atomic Energy Agency
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Japan
Increased Emphasis on Technology as an Antidote to 21st-Century Security Threats and Development
Challenges:Indicators From Governments
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“Technology is part of every challenge in the world and a part of every solution.”
- Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas
Increased Emphasis on Technology as an Antidote to 21st-Century Security Threats and Development
Challenges:Indicators From the Private Sector
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Making technology accessible to the masses (partly through public-private
sector links)
Changing/improving lives and making societies more efficient
Do good, keep us safe, make profit
How to spread this model throughout the world?
Increased Emphasis on Technology as an Antidote to 21st-Century Security Threats and Development
Challenges:Indicators From the Private Sector
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Increased emphasis on technology as an antidote to 21st-century security threats and
development challenges:Indicators From the Ground
Key Challenges include:•Small arms proliferation and trafficking•Al Shabaab•Piracy, other maritime security issues
Capacity shortfalls:•Border insecurity•Lacking infrastructure•Weak government institutions
Consequences:•Security threats Development Challenges
David Kimaiyo, Director, President’s office, Kenya National Focal Point on SALW
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National/Regional Strategy IdentifiedNational/Regional Strategy Identified
• Technical capacity and training at border points and ports
- Arms-detection gear and techniques
- Surveillance systems and scanners
- More effective policing and patrolling at border hot spots (training)
• Maritime security
• Aerial surveillance
Sustainable development through security capacity-building
Which sector in society has the background/technology to fill the
capacity gaps?
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Increased emphasis on technology as an antidote to 21st-century security threats and development
challenges:Indicators From the Ground
Key Challenges include:•Transnational Crime•Inflation•Corruption
Capacity shortfalls:•Law enforcement•Communications equipment•Training
Consequences:•Security threats Development Challenges
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A Pakistani Border Guard’s Perspective on A Pakistani Border Guard’s Perspective on DevelopmentDevelopment
• Surveillance and detector equipment at border points (hardware and software)
• Entrance detection systems
• Mobile phones
• Sophisticate communications system to communicate along the borders
Sustainable development through security capacity building
Which sector in society has the background/technology to fill
the capacity gaps?
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Sustainable Development through Security Sustainable Development through Security Capacity Building around the WorldCapacity Building around the World
• Latin American transnational crime and development
• From a tourist- to a trade-based economy for security and development in the Caribbean Basin
• Middle Eastern and North African migration, non-state actor challenges, democracy, and development
• Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian energy security and development
• East African and Southeast Asian public health, security, and development
• Southeast Asian climate change adaption and development
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Sustainable Development through Security Capacity Building around the
World
Port security
Border security
Communications Freighter and container security
Airport security
Effective export controls
Financial control
Training and technology to law enforcement, police, first responders and emergency personnel
IT security
Technology to protect critical infrastructure
Maritime surveillance
Urban security and public transportation monitoring
C4I systems
Underwater security
Aerial Surveillance Command and control systems
What sector in society has the background/technology to fill the capacity gaps?
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Private Industry
Tailor-made solutions through partnerships with governments and civil society
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Higher Purpose Focus
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From a Military-Industrial Complex to a From a Military-Industrial Complex to a Development Industrial Complex: the Swedish Development Industrial Complex: the Swedish
ExampleExample
Technology as an Instrumentto Achieve National Goals:
Defense (1648 – 1945)
Cold War defense and security (1945 – 1991)
Trade security (1980 – today)
Sustainable development (today )
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The Development Industrial Complex:The Development Industrial Complex:
• Historic commitment to human security and sustainable economic development globally
• Robust high technology and communications sectors; use it as an instrument to achieve national/international goals
• Gunilla Carlsson wants “less talk, more action” with development assistance
• SIDA’s overall goal is to create conditions for poor people to improve their lives…sustainable development through security capacity building
• History of successful government and industry collaboration for the benefit of Swedish society
• A very strong, knowledgeable and engaged civil society
A new profile issue for Sweden?
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The Development-Industrial ComplexThe Development-Industrial Complex
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Back to Africa: Development-Industrial Complex in Back to Africa: Development-Industrial Complex in ActionAction
• SIDA and/or other Swedish government agencies would provide funding
• MSB would be responsible for capacity-building experience and oversight
• High technology corporations would design/provide tailor made solutions in terms of tech and training to backfill capacity shortfalls
• Swedish and local NGOs:- provide local ownership- Transparency- maximize the investments on the
ground for the immediately impacted communities
Sustainable Development through Security/Technology Capacity Building
Pic from Uppsala on msb, sida, kenya
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The question is not if technology and corporations are good or bad!
The question is…
How do we tap into high tech and corporations' potential and find innvoative solutions to use them as instruments to do good
Thanks for listening!
Send me an email if you are in Washington, or if I can help you with anything!