Agents of globalisation
Hello, citizens of the world.
As a casual poster of my thoughts on the world wide web, I am an agent of globalisation.
This is according to Lord Anthony Giddens, who gave us a very nice keynote on Tuesday on the three crises which plague our times: the globalisation crisis, the climate crisis and the financial crisis.
It was a fascinating conference, and the result of his address was to suggest that in the future, countries will have to tackle two of the crises together: the climate and the globalisation crises.
Lord Giddens’s reasoning is as follows: those suffering the most of the financial crisis in the times to come will be those with lower skills, and with the emergence of new technology which is more eco-friendly, there will be the creation of jobs, many of which will not require high technical skills. If governments invest in the training of people for these jobs, Giddens sees it as a win-win situation.
Now, the second part: all citizens of the web are agents of globalisation. They propagate news, they tell their stories (and some write just like that, sometimes without caring if there is no reader but themselves – ahem*peter*ahem). They waste time on internet fora and game websites, and create a special “web culture”, by being more informed than many citizens. And through them, the system grows, reaching global proportions.
So there, a small lesson in sociology.
And another random note: the Kadi judgment by the European Court of Justice is the most awesome judgment I’ve heard of so far.
Sheesh, you can tell I study Law…
21 November 2008 at 21:39
Hmm, I guess that makes me an agent of globalization as well.
24 November 2008 at 17:27
Good note, too bad there’s no written doc…
Where did that “keynote” (^^) take place ?
24 November 2008 at 18:13
In the Aula Magna, during the “forum des acteurs d’entreprise”. Next time, François!
22 March 2009 at 04:20
>Hmmm…. I guess you’re right… But I quite don’t understand on the high technical skills part… Surely high-tech machines will need someone with high skills.. It’s just my opinion.. But hey, thanks for the information..
22 March 2009 at 08:27
Actually, not necessarily: operating a high-tech machine doesn’t always require high skills, because it depends on the usability of the machine. Also, don’t forget the whole infrastructure that accompanies the high-tech industry: factories, transport, maintenance.
Many such posts can be occupied by people without a university degree, and you can easily train people to acquire basic skills for such posts.