6.3. Local and global resilience
New and emerging possibilities for managing global risks
How perspectives vary on the severity of different risks and priorities for action
The success of international civil society organizations in attempting to raise awareness about, and find solutions for, environmental and social risks associated with global interactions
Environmental awareness: is an ideology that evokes the necessity and responsibility of humans to respect, protect, and preserve the natural world from its anthropogenic (caused by humans) afflictions. (Source)
Civil society: can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere. By other authors, "civil society" is used in the sense of the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens (Wikipedia)
International civil society organizations: are therefore non-government and non-business organizations aiming to promote the interests of people and the environment on a multi-national scale
Discuss:
- What examples have we discussed in the course where the possibility of managing social or environmental issues was:
- Raising awareness?
- Driven by civil society?
- What other examples do you know?
- How effective is raising awareness in tackling social or environmental issues? Have arguments for and against
Detailed examples of one environmental and one social civil society organization action
N&C will give you some background and criticism on both organizations (make sure to have a good understanding of each one)
Make 2 groups to complete the case studies below:
With specific details (places, people, initiative etc) use the websites to explain:
- The problem being tackled
- The awareness campaign
- Your evaluation of the campaign
1. Environmental
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF): Oceans
2. Social
OXFAM: Empowering women farmers to end hunger and poverty (and GCC)
Strategies to build resilience:
- Resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties
- re-shoring of economic activity by TNCs
- use of crowd-sourcing technologies to build resilience by government and civil society
- new technologies for the management of global flows of data and people, including cybersecurity and e-passports
Reshoring
What are the impact of reshoring on a country?
Crowdsourcing
What are the benefits of crowdsourcing?
How are the benefits and drawbacks of crowdsourcing as opposed to services provided by TNCs?
Moore's law
What is Big Data?
E-passports
What are the benefits for governments, citizens, globalization?
What are the possible issues related to e-passports?
Countries with e-passports
What is the trend?
What is the future of e-passports?
**a quick research has shown that Mexico and Saudi Arabia have already begun using e-passports
Further watching
Never mind the title, this is more new tech and crowdsourcing than cybersecurity