[Legacy Report] The Strategic Challenge of UN Military and Civilian Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) in Peacekeeping Operations

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Over the past decades, United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations has evolved globally. The spectrum of contemporary peace operations is becoming increasingly broad and complex in scope. At the sam e time the exponential growth of new technologies and innovations have improved the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service delivery and mandate implementations of UN operations.Peace operations are conducted in inherently volatile and dangerous environments. Contextual and situational
information from all missions units (Military and Police component ) are critical to effective operations, and are required to support informed decision-making. There is an ever-increasing demand for accurate and timely situational awareness information (both internal and externally provided), combined with the analytical capabilities to interpret it.
UN peacekeeping aimed at concerted effort to ensure reliable, high-end, but still robust and easy to use communications technology to ensure both efficiency gains and cost saving mechanism under a backdrop of present austerity and reform.
With the use of new and emerging technologies dawn of new cutting edge features available to the ICT support of field m ission, the UN faces the advantage of competing solutions that share many features, such as data enabling,
location-based position tracking systems , emergency functions, self-configuring networks, remote administration or high level encryption. Thus, the UN needs to re-align its technology roadmap, to seek new approached to old questions and to
adjust our internal operations models to the new technology landscape. At the sam e time, UN peacekeeping needs to aim for a unified com munications landscape to leverage and enable its missions to respond to increasing number of multidimensional and complex operation. Since troops and police contributing nations have wide ranging ideas about
standards to implement command and control, and have very different levels of access to state-of-the-art equipment and technology, this imposes a significant challenge to the UN. Therefore, UN field missions need to be able to bridge generations of communications technology while capitalizing on cutting-edge commercially available solutions to make peacekeeping more efficient and more successful.

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