India issued a warning on Saturday about the danger of using various technologies for terrorist activities as they grow “cheaper and more easily available.” The new and developing technologies, according to India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, have fueled economic growth and provide the potential to lessen existing disparities, but they have also brought up a number of concerns that require our attention and prompt response.
As various technologies become more affordable and accessible, the use of new technology for terrorist goals is growing, diversifying, and adapting, Kamboj said in her opening remarks on Day 2 of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting.
She continued, “Proliferation in online activities, particularly during the epidemic, has provided terrorists the opportunity to promote their harmful narratives and propaganda, particularly targeting young and children, including through gaming platforms.
“UN Security Council, in the past 2 decades, has evolved an important architecture built primarily around the Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Regime to combat this menace. This has been very effective in putting those countries on notice that had turned terrorism into a state-funded enterprise,” the minister said.
“Despite this, the threat of terrorism is only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa, as successive reports of the 1267 Sanctions Committee monitoring reports have highlighted,” “Another add-on to the existing worries for governments around the world is the use of unmanned aerial systems by terrorist groups and organised criminal networks,”.