What Is The Future Of Global Citizenship Essay

UNESCO MGIEP’s The Blue Dos Essay Contest 2014/2015

TOPIC TITTLE: “A FUTURE OF UNCERTAINTIES”

TOPIC 1: “What does a future of global citizenship look like, and what is the one thing the world can do today to build it ?”

INTRODUCTION

Global citizenship is a term used to describe the effects of globalization, -the information and communication technology age, and its effects on the interrelatedness of individuals cutting across the different countries of the world in terms of communication, doing business, sharing ideas, thus making the world a global village.

Global citizenship is a product of the information super-highway , being championed by satellite and fibre-optic technologies as its backbone, and the internet, mobile phone

Since man is a bond of possibilities, the meaning of global citizenship is yet to be fully grasped as technologies, innovations and ideas keep changing by the day.

With the liberal information age, l have access to whatever I want to know, at whatever time and wherever I chose. It has its advantages and also its down sides . But we must realize quickly, that those who will control this technology, will no sooner or later control the futures or destinies of mankind except some things are done to arrest any form of monopoly of the information super-high way.

It is either one is informed or one is deformed. Thus a global citizenship will ensure the gradual eradication of poverty across the globe, empowering of people, places and countries to reach their predestined heights of success and achievement.

The major challenge to global citizenship would be the loss of one’s privacy forever. It is obvious that my privacy and yours has to be sacrificed on the altar of global citizenship because of the three parties involved; myself, the other party from across the globe, and the controllers of the technological infrastructure, as no man would want to work in isolation and

• Increasing communication and internet access to rural and less developed/remote parts of the world through rural telephony and rural internet projects.

• Reduced cost of doing business for communication service providers through improved government policies.

• Democratization of control of access to all forms of communication technologies. By this the people would have a say on how they would be monitored and penalties to unjust usage of the internet. Let us all face the fact that the internet needs to be monitored and regulated to some degree,- just like every human society having its own courts and legal system to safeguard humans and the human society- there has to be some form of ‘internet jurisprudence’ and ‘internet court system’ to save guard the ‘internet itself and most importantly the future of the internet .

Conclusion

Respect to keep fundamental human rights and freedoms of the individual should be a guiding principle to future global citizenship. Man all through the ages has been a bundle of possibilities- that is , he can make or mar the tenets of global citizenship, depending on how his rights are upheld in the equation of