Thursday, November 13, 2008

Internet as a saviour

Today, we have to make a point about e-culture. On this blog, I wrote different posts about this Internet characteristic. We have to remember that e-culture is the symbol of free culture. In other words, it means that we can have access to the culture without paying anything.
It’s also a means to broadcast a lot of news and it can be used to sort out a major international problem.

- Global warming
In fact, we can take the example of global warming which is a serious issue. It concerned everybody. That’s why, more and more companies use this tool to communicate about climate change. We can quote a not for profit company which name is “climate change solutions”:
www.climate-change-solutions.co.uk/contact.php . This is only a web platform. It has different goals :
- Developing and promoting sustainable local and global climate change solutions.
- Developing a broad based public, private and community partnership with a view to maximising engagement and participation of the mainstream in local and global climate change solutions.


- Internet : a means to solve a problem
To my mind, this kind of process can solve a major international problem. As a matter of fact, Internet is a real tool to create proximity with people. It can touch our intimate sphere even if it deals with a public problem. This is a means to give us a sense of responsibility.


- Creating a "transparency strategy"
Moreover, different means are used to reach this goal. In fact, global warming is a complex issue so it has to generalize it to be more popular. In fact, Internet is a good tool to create a transparency strategy. For global warming, this strategy is necessary because it permits explaining a difficult issue which has a lot of scientist concepts.


- Participation of people
Finally, Internet is a good means to increase people in actions. It means that they can participate to the struggle against global warming. It creates a community because we know that Internet is an interactive place.

1 comment:

Nicolas Beretti said...

But how can a community exist with billion and billion people? This "community" isn't a kind of myth?