[bestbits] Is everything bright about the ICT revolution

[parminder]

"The authors of the proposal also cite the 2013 Oxford University report 
‘The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to 
computerization?’, where 47% of all jobs in the US are said in danger of 
extinction at the hands of technological progress. The fields of 
transport, communication, office work, administration and production are 
all predicted to be heavily affected. “It is clear,” states the 
exposition, “that the current social security system will not be able to 
handle the costs of this immense technological progress.” "

http://grapevine.is/news/2014/10/08/pirates-propose-guaranteed-minimal-income/

Issues that civil society needs to be discussing most. There is a world 
beyond "Internet freedom", even if we provisionally consider this 
concept apart from its current capture by the most dominant global 
economic and political forces .

Has anyone really thought through what the virulent anti-governmentalism 
of the multi-stakeholderist front does to the future prospects of the 
poor? (Yes, I know the WEF ists have thought it through, I mean other 
more innocent followers.) Does it not at some level mean dismantling the 
welfare state, when it may be needed even more than before, with global 
corporations escaping all regulation and much of their taxation 
obligations. Where are these agenda in global IG, and which civil 
society speaks about them?

Not only we need the global Internet corporations to pay their proper 
taxes, at places where value accures and not at the places of their 
incorporation (whether some fancy pacific island or the US), we also 
need people of the world to be able to appropriate the value that 
accrues from their information and their data which illegally siphoned 
value today runs the Internet economy....

parminder