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Computing as Strategic Tool for Glocal Human Rights Movement?

Computing as Strategic Tool for Glocal Human Rights Movement?. Positioning Socio-Cultural-Ethical Aspects of Cyberpower in their Context On-Kwok Lai School of Policy Studies , Kwansei Gakuin U niversity, Japan. Globalization – driven Social Dualism.

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Computing as Strategic Tool for Glocal Human Rights Movement?

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  1. Computing as Strategic Tool for Glocal Human Rights Movement? Positioning Socio-Cultural-Ethical Aspects of Cyberpower in their Context On-Kwok Lai School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

  2. Globalization–driven Social Dualism • widespread poverty in affluent societies / localities, rural-urban divided • deregulatory policy initiatives favour commodification / privatization of social services  social dualism Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Challenged! • China: Economic Miracle: >8% GDP Growth since 1978 • per capita income of city dwellers in China increased by 8%, compared to rural residents of 2.5% (2000-06) • Working in cities accounted 70% of the total annualincrease

  3. Global Crisis – Local Solutions? • World ‘War’ for Economic Development? • Trading - Mobility Regime reduces People’s Eco-Humanity Sensitivity • Decoupling Production-Consumption Eco-Nexus and ESC Rights • Development Divides: Sourcing / Utilization / Mis-Match between Rich-Poor, Developed-Developing • Under-developing/investment for Future

  4. Against Human ESC Rights?Globalization  reinforces  Polarization? • Productivity Increase  ESC Rights Challenged! • Job Mobility  Employment Insecurity? • Winners and Losers in Globalization? • Promoting (Anti-)Globalization? • Which Versions of Globalization? • Globalization with Benevolence? • What ESC Rights, esp. Left for the Least Advantaged Groups?

  5. Humanity underSiegein a Globalizing World? • Regional/Global Divisions of Labors –cum- Competitiveness Discourse • Informational Society  Time+Space Compression • Hyper-Flexible Production Regime: Borrowed Time+Space Compression –/ Job–Life Course? • De-Skilling  Derived Job / Life-Chance: Redundancy, Early Retirement, Downsizing • Anti-Globalization Protests & Processes?

  6. Human (ESC) Rights in a Globalizing World • Globalization: problematic & contradictory  life chance / ESC Rights of people? • Globalization: a benign and automatic force  better economic benefits for everyone, even the poorest group can be better off. • Political Extreme Left: unbridled capitalism does produce effects of exploitation of the weak and socio-ecological degradation • Political Extreme Right: the malignant forces of globalization engender xenophobia, the demising local people’s jobs, culture, language and hence identity

  7. NGOs Questing for Social, Alternative Development!

  8. NGOs’ Anti-Globalization Communicative Actions & Process • Fair Trade for All? (G22 Agenda) • 1st May, Seattle & Other Protests • Global Peace Movement(15. Feb. 2003) • ‘Anti-G‘ information and ideas in/beyond cyberspace, bypassing the mass media, turn into global real time social actions

  9. Differential LOGICSof Globalization • Global Civil Society: Mobile Communicative Actions by NGOs – articulating their human, bio-eco ethical demands through non-institutional politics of protest movements • WTO though sticks to its multi-lateral summit (protected by strong police force), yet it has to deal with human (eco-social-cultural) rights & animal rights! • Bio-Diversity: Ethics of Bio-production (Bio vs. GM) • ICT: a crucial factor to empower the (presumably) powerless NGOs; global civil society has learned quick, adopting wire and wireless communication set up to champion their project, in cyber and mass media

  10. Anti- Pro-Development Advocacies:New Humanity?Deep-to-Shallow Ecology glo(bal-lo)cal communicative actions – using of all wired and wireless media of communications in both cyber / in real communications – enable people’s participation in bio-eco-ethical debates and communication Local – Global Dialectics of Development

  11. Post-Asian Crisis – Digital Capitalism‘e’-Strategy • Post-financial crisis: pro-growth development model for e-commerce, e-government, e-technopolis… • E-Singapore • ‘e-‘ project: e-Japan • South Korea tops cable connection • China is catching up its mobile communications networking, • Taiwan is becoming a silicon island

  12. Status of Diffusion of Mobile Phones - Japan

  13. Trend of Household Ownership of ICT Devices

  14. Total Internet User Population &Internet Diffusion Rate

  15. Globalized Space • Internet, the World Wide Web and the other electronic technologies that are shrinking the world offers considerable potential as a source of democracy... by facilitating the continued proliferation of networks that know no boundaries, these technologies have introduced a horizontal dimension to the politics of Globalized Space. They enable like-minded people in distant places to converge, share perspectives, protest abuses, provide information and mobilize resources – dynamics that seem bound to constrain vertical structures that sustain governments, corporation and any other hierarchical organizations (Rosenau 1998: 46).

  16. TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISMGlobal-Local • ‘Globalized Space’ thesis James N. Rosenau (1997, 1998) • ICT affects: the shaping of individual’s identity and actions that transcend territorial borders anchoring upon ecological issues (Katz & Aakhus Eds., 2002; Woolgar Ed., 2002) • Transnational Advocacy Networks Margarett E. Keck & Kathryn Sikkink (1998, 1999), Lai (2004)

  17. HUMAN SUSTAINABILITYCYBER-ACTIVISM • Participatory politics at global/local scale is possible with all forms of communications: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many. • Internet (cable, wireless and satellite) multi-modal of communications, representing both micro as well as mass media functioning.

  18. CommunicativeActions, Logics&Green PraxisofCyber-RainbowWarriorsin/out ofEveryday Life:e-Mobilizationfor Transnational Ecological Activism (TEA) in/beyondCyberspaceHuman ESC Rights’ Communication

  19. Eco-Cyber-Activism-Advocacy?!! • Association of Progressive Communications • Amnesty International • Human Rights Watch • Opendemocracy.net • South Korean Jinbo.net • Friends of the Earth International • Greenpeace International • PETA.org

  20. Redefining New Humanity?New Human Rights Movement • Questioning Economic Development? • Against outsiders on indigenous Development? • Questioning CSR of TNCs? • Against neo-liberal / Trading Regime? • Indigenous Rights? • Profits vs. ESC Rights? • Local Community & Ecology vs. Global TNCs

  21. Advocacies & Appeals forESC Rights • Choreographed - Visualized Reality • Sensational Advocacies & Appeals • Dramatized Clear Role for Victims - Predators • Binary Code(s) for Winner / Loser • Ethical & Moral Appeal – Support for Victims • “Normal-Natural” (Fundamentalist) Appeals • Appeal for Personal / Individual Actions

  22. COMMUNICATIVE Ethics PRAXIS@TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM • Communicative Praxis: Creation of new political activism of NGOs in global civil society, with the praxis of broad access avenues of civic participation at national, regional, international levels. • Ethical Communications! • e-platforms for exchanges of information, in-house action-strategies, and recruitment of volunteers for e-mobilization

  23. Communicative Praxis Action + Identity@ Time+Space • cyberspace (for novices as well as veteran activists) is a learning-by-doing, action-oriented media at both individual and collective levels. • just a few clicks, sending support and appeal letters or animated e-cards to the targets • Global Citizen (Guardian for Humanity)

  24. Glocal Communicative ActivismBoomeranging!!! Bio-Eco-Human Ethical Diplomacy!! • Transnational Advocacies Networks (TAN) for people empowerment - the global civil society: Boomerang Strategies: Local  Global Local • ICT (mobile communicative actions in a progressive mode) in enabling Global Communicative Activism • ICT - the leverage for the resource-poor and/or under-privileged groups in articulating their justifiable demand for a fair / equitable life chance.

  25. Outsiders -as- InsidersComputer-Comunnicative Ethics? • ICT enhanced cyber-cum-social mobilization extends the territorial (ir)relevance of human ESC rights issues • enables “outsiders”, non-reference-persons, to have influence in and beyond the locally and regionally specific, territorially defined, human ESC rights struggles

  26. Local-Global Eco-Humanity Links • Selectivity & Reversibility for Local Action – Global Outcome / Global Action – Local Consequence • Selectivity of Ethical Dialectics (Thesis – Anti-thesis – Synthesis • Individual Behavior  Collective Reciprocity  Global Action  Sustainability? • (Non-)Common Sense Approaches: • ESC Rights Compatible Consumption Consumerism • Ethics of New Modernity in the Informational Age?

  27. Individual makes Difference in the Global Humanity Politics– • multiple linkages of TAN in and beyond the cyberspace stretch geographical localities… Global - Humanity Citizenship? • extending to numerous individuals who used to be passive observers (of the mass media) and call upon their participation in a less militant, yet supportive, role for the protest movements

  28. Rediscovering Biodiversity - Humanity?Expanding Asian Cyber-Space: Embryo for Cyber-Activism? • Geo-Politics Anchorage of Social Agencies? • Asian state’s e-government projects • Burgeoning ICT Market in Asia • Wired + Wireless Access for Communication Expansion???

  29. BARRIERS AGAINST GLOBAL ESC Rights-(CYBER-)ACTIVISM • Censorship + Control the Internet • Cyber-Imperialism • Geo-Comparative (Dis-)Advantage of (i)NGOs • Digital Divides & Regional/Local Differences • Differential State-Society Conflicts

  30. Age-Specific Digital Divide: Mobile Phone Users by Age (2005) - Japan

  31. Hyper-Modernization forNew Modernity – Eco-Humanity • Re-organization or disorganization of Socio-Economic Life through ICT? • Facilitating Differential Cultural Formation and the Change of Everyday Social Practice in Various Domains

  32. Dynamics of CyberspaceMultiple Differentiated Engagements • Individualistic, Profit-Seeking, Self-Promotion and Greedy Encounters • Enlightened Individual driven e-Mobilization for nano-scale objects to yotta (1024)-scale Global Sustainability • Wired and Wireless Communication to develop Size, Power Base and Influence of Critical Mass for Alternative Politicking

  33. Cosmopolitan Participatory Democracy versus / for Individual Existence? • Creation of new political institutions and a diversity of NGOs in global civil society  Global Governance for one’s Survival? • New democratic – participatory (critical engaging) principle and praxis of broad access to avenues of civic participation at national, regional and international levels

  34. e-MOBILIZATIONGlobal/LocalSustainability • Transnational Advocacy Networks & Activism – a powerfulchallenge/reminder for supra-national bodies to abide the basic condition/morality for development • But the question is how to do it, by market force, the supra-national state or civic forces?

  35. Positioning Humanityin Hyper-Modernization • High Economic Growth – Social Change • Economic Liberalization - Globalization • ICT Sophistication – Mobile Communication • Communicative Actions in Mobile ICT Regime • Cyberspace – e-Mobilization • Articulating One’s Presence & Ethics in Blogs, SMS, MMS, SNS onto e-platform of YouTube, MySpace, MSN

  36. Eco-HumanRights Ethics & Norms: Ideas / Ideals of New Humanity • Questions revolve around / against Corporate and/or State Agencies forSustainable Development/Progressiveness: towards next (Eco-)Modernity? • ICT’s Articulation of Animal - Human Existential, and International (humanity and bio-ethics) Norms and Justice, for a more Open and Participatory Regime of Global Governance • Science (Knowledge) or Religion (Belief)?

  37. Humanity: Objects as Subjectivity?Human Value versus (ICT) Knowledge • Cultural, ideological and value base of scientific knowledge questioned? • Disorganized-Uncoupled Communications on Scientific, Humanity and (Eco-System) Sustainability Risks • Emerging or Ending of Paradigmatic Shift? • Whose Value? What Scientific Knowledge? Individual, Church, Community, NGOs, Market or the State as Proxy of Final Appeal and Judgment?

  38. New Ethical-Communicative Praxis@ New Humanity-Modernity? • New Communicative Praxis:Promotion of Communicative Independence - guard against the expert- imperialist controls. • Cyber-Activism towards Socio-Eco E-quity & Justice: call for normative development agenda for the humanization of the informational society and global sustainability: equity, participation and social justice in the system of global/local governance

  39. New Humanity & SustainabilityNew Praxis? • Pooling of ‘Global-Flexibility’ Risks? • Diversified Regime of Development? • From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency? • New Socio-Eco Contract for Sustainability! • Beyond Market Approaches: CSR? Local Capacity Building, Self-Help Cooperatives, Benevolent Regime for Development

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