Information and Communications Technologies for Development

Research and Projects

This program explores information and communication technologies (ICTs) - in particular the internet and mobile networks - in low-income and low-infrastructure countries and contexts. This field is sometimes referred to as ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development). We are always on the look-out for new and exciting research prospects!

Sam Nunn Security Program Mission and History

Mission Statement

The Sam Nunn Security Program, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Science, Technology, and Security Initiative, exists to expand the role of scientists and engineers in the realm of international security policymaking. The program is guided by a belief that the solutions to problems such as arms proliferation, critical infrastructure protection, and economic and environmental security will not be revealed in the absence of adequate scientific and technological understanding.

Global Energy Security

The Global Energy Security program explores issues at the nexus of energy security and international conflict and cooperation. Our current research revolves around discerning different drivers, dimensions, and strategic consequences of tectonic shifts in the oil and natural gas landscapes. Research foci include:

  • The unconventional oil and gas boom, and implications for rewriting different approaches to national energy security;

Emerging Technology and Security

This program focuses on understanding the impact of emerging technologies on national and international security, as well as on the prospects for defense transformation. For example, what role will nanotechnology, cognitive science, biotechnology, and converging sciences have on states vs. non-state actors, manned vs. unmanned systems, balances of power, the offense-defense balance, deterrence and coercive strategies, security doctrines, nonproliferation regimes, and national defense programmatic choices?

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