Cyber Security as Development Assistance - Growth and Vulnerability

June 9, 2016

NUPI Report
Themes
Security policy  Development policy  Economic growth  United Nations
Written by

Niels Nagelhus Schia

Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Research group on security and defense, Head of NUPI's Centre for Cyber Security Studies

 

Niels Nagelhus Schia

Diplomacy  Foreign policy  International organizations  United Nations  Cyber  Peace operations  Development policy  Africa

Summary:

The importance of digital technology underpins most of the social, economic and political development goals of most donor countries and international organisations today. Cyber Security Capacity Building (CCB), an approach aimed at advancing, cultivating and encouraging growth and stability in developing countries through digitalization, seems set to play an increasingly important role in future foreign policy considerations and government programmes. In the NUPI project ‘Cyber Security Capacity Building (2015-2016) we have mapped out concrete risks and challenges, proposed recommendations for dealing with them, and provided suggestions for implementing the adequate tools effectively. This policy brief presents a summary of the final report, which draws on project reports produced by NUPI related to this project.