Technological Innovation and Global Security.

PRINCIPLES.

Aboubakar YARI & Venus YARI

An Abstract from the UN Scientific Task Forces Report.

PP 23-25.

Sciences, technology, and innovation.

Principle: any attack toward the principles discussed below will interfere with the UN Security Council and the US pentagone global security interests, and make of the attacker a terrorist by definition.

Abstract:

An Abstract from the UN Scientific Task Forces Report.

PP 23-25.

Sciences, technology, and innovation.

Contribution to Political Stability and Global Security

Scientific and technical innovations can enhance national stability and international security.7 Over time economic growth fuelled by innovations in science, technology, and innovation can increase social cohesion, stability, and democratization.

In Brazil and the Republic of Korea, for example, economic growth over the past 40 years led to a virtuous cycle in which first labor and then an emerging middle class began to insist on greater social, economic, and political participation.

Advances in education, science, technology, and economic growth in these and similar economies are improving the prospects for both democracy and stability.

Increases in democratic practices, economic growth, and innovation normally lead a nation to increase its participation in international trading regimes.8 As this

occurs, the trading countries must establish a wide range of harmonized practices, such as standards, regulations, and tariffs. Trade ties usually have positive effects on political relationships between countries. Indeed, democratic countries with trade interdependencies are usually less likely to go to war with one another (Maital 1995).9

As scientific and technological innovations work to foster economic growth and political stability and democracy, countries become better international citizens

and stakeholders in security (Commission on Human Security 2003). Theyalso become more open to understanding that security often has important non-military dimensions. The recent redefinition of HIV/AIDS by the United States

as a security crisis is one example of this broadened view of security in the twenty first century.

Most international disputes and conflicts have revolved around access to land, commodities, and natural resources. These economic factors continue to play a role today. But increasingly, the world will be made up of societies in which economic value will be derived from knowledge, especially scientific and technical knowledge. Unlike traditional sources of wealth, knowledge is not scarce and can

therefore grow at exponential rates. Knowledge-based societies will not develop without conflicts of their own, but warfare based on mercantilism or land grabswill take different forms.

One of the major new forces emerging today is global civil society, which promises to become even more important a force. Many of the nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and NGO networks that make up this global civil society derive their capacity from their use of advanced ICTs; many have a keen interest in seeing science and technology serve peaceful democratic purposes and create open societies. One of the key challenges ahead is to better integrate NGOs into policymaking mechanisms and forums at the local and international levels, forums that have been traditionally dominated by state and corporate actors.[1]

An Abstract from Juma et al; science, technology, and Innovation; for the United Nations Millennium Project.

See also, George W. BUSH and the United States Millennium Challenge Account.

Today, I call for a new compact for global development, defined by new accountability for both rich and poor nations alike….The United States will lead by example. We will increase our development assistance by $5 billion over …

the next three budget cycles…The new money … is above and beyond existingaid requests in the current budget I submitted to Congress.[2]

George W. Bush,

March 14, 2002

References:

[1] Juma et al; Innovation: Applying Knowledge In Development. PP 23-25.Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation.Innovation: applying knowledge in development.

[2]James W. Fox AndLexRieffel. The Millennium Challenge Account: Moving Toward Smarter Aid; The Brookings Institution Washington, DC