0800-HOW-IS-MY-DIPLOMACY? Technology and humanitarian action

Published: August 6, 2007, 5:47 am

Tags: humanitarian impacts, humanitarian action, disarmament as humanitarian action, decision making, borrie, human security, altruism, civilians, accountability

Regular readers of the Disarmament Insight blog will have gathered that, among many things, we're interested in the impacts of technology on international decision-making. Patricia Lewis, for instance, has offered some of her personal observations about the changes mobile phones and Blackberries have wrought on interactions in multilateral meetings she's attended (See "Zapped! Mobile technology in the conference chamber").There seems little doubt that continued improvements to wireless communications have radical implications for the coordination of international activities at many different levels.For instance, The Economist newspaper ran a story on 26 July entitled "Flood, Famine and Mobile Phones". In it, the Economist argued that technology is transforming humanitarian relief - and shifting the balance of power between donors and recipients.It all sounds great. But the Economist conceded that - beyond anecdotal evidence - there isn't a definitive verdict yet on how much of a

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