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Digitalisation and human security dimensions in cybersecurity: an appraisal for the European High North

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2018

Mirva Salminen  and
Kamrul Hossain
Mirva Salminen
Affiliation:
The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland (mirva.salminen@ulapland.fi)
Kamrul Hossain
Affiliation:
The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre, and Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
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Abstract

Overarching digitalisation is producing significant socio-cultural, economic and policy changes in the European High North. These changes create new opportunities, but also challenges and concerns for people and communities living in the region. Digital development is guided by supranational, national and regional digital policies and is secured through national cybersecurity agendas. These frameworks concentrate on advancing overall economic growth and safeguarding critical information infrastructure and information security, but pay inadequate attention to the interests, needs and fears of people and communities experiencing digitalisation in everyday life. In order to generate a more comprehensive cybersecurity agenda, which focuses on human security and empowering people to influence the digital development, a research framework highlighting the actual ways people use, wish to use, or are unable to use information and communication technologies is needed. The focus of this article is therefore on regionally contextualised digital opportunities and threats as they may be experienced by local people and communities. It utilises insights of securitisation theory to grant people a say in the direction of digital development in their region. The aim is to introduce issues of human security to cybersecurity agendas, for a more comprehensive understanding of the societal changes that digitalisation generates.

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Polar Record , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , March 2018 , pp. 108 - 118
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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