Tackling National Security Challenges Using Information Technology

ABSTRACT
Information Technology (IT) is the bedrock for rapid development in a nation, and challenges us to devise bold and courageous initiatives to address a host of vital socio-economic issues such as national security, reliable infrastructure, skilled human resources, open government and other essential issues of capacity building.
 The measures adopted to maintain national security in the face of threats to society has led to ongoing dialectic, particularly in liberal democracies, on the appropriate scale and role of authority in matters of civil and human rights.
Although nationa…