FPRI Summer School

The Foreign Policy Implications of Information and Communications Technologies

July 7, 2010 / Philadelphia

Lawrence Husick

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) allow people in many nations to participate in a rapidly changing world in which economic, political, and social activities are increasingly transformed. ICT tools are used to find, explore, analyze, exchange and present information and give users instant access to knowledge, information, ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. As a tool for development, diplomacy, human rights, and education, efforts to spread ICT have been very successful. The dark-side of ICT, which has seen these technologies used for repression, propaganda, crime and terrorism is less-well explored.

Lawrence Husick, FPRI's Senior Fellow in the Center on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, and Wachman Center Co-Director of the History of Innovation Program will provide an overview of Information and Communications Technologies, and explore the foreign policy implications for the rapid dissemination of ICT across the globe, with special attention to non-governmental agency programs in ICT and their impact and prospects for bringing about social and political change.

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