Steven Livingston

Professor, George Washington University appearing on Panel 8: Prevention Dec. 3, 12:15—13:30

Steven Livingston is a professor of Media and Public Affairs specializing in advanced information technologies and policy effects. He is also a professor of international affairs in the Elliott School at George Washington University and in the School of Media and Public Affairs. Additionally, he is a senior fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

In 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. He also serves on the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His previous work has examined the use of mobile phones and digital mapping technologies by NGOs and community-based organizations (CBOs) in areas of limited statehood and places where the state fails to provide basic services. NGOs and CBOs use these technologies to fill in some of the governance void.

With Gregor Walter-Drop, Livingston edited Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood.

Currently, he is working on several projects concerning the use of advanced technologies by non-state actors in an effort to document war crimes and abuse.

Among other publications, including about 50 articles and chapters, he has written Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability and Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security.