Empowerment is the thing most desirable in the world, desirable citizenship, for you and you, for us and we, for our friends, "for our enemies?, for the disadvantaged, impoverished, excluded for the disadvantaged", rich, including and excluding?
What's so desirable for some people and so feared in others? Empowerment has to do with what we are all people and all people are able ... decision, assessment, objection, regulation, opinion, ACTION ... We can
better or worse self- the administering, in other words, we better or worse empowered to decide, evaluate, oppose, regulated think and act freely and authentically.
What is best ? We do not know, we believe more solidarity, more open, more inclusive, more loving, more responsibly ... it's better, that is, these are some of the characteristics of a better quality of empowerment .
ICT have no role in the quality of the empowerment of citizens, but the amount and form. The quality of the empowerment of people depends on the clarity and depth of its ability to be aware of their own way of being conscious.
Neither people nor the citizenship or better discern worse through ICT. More people can access through ICTs, much information, no guarantee that it becomes much less knowledge or learning.
Worse, ICT does not guarantee that those who acquire and transform information into knowledge and learning are empowered with better quality, much less that they are just friends and disadvantaged people who serve this empowerment ...
As emphasized several times in this blog, ICT is only a development tool.
A poor tool, but not just any tool. Every tool we used to interfere in history has had some characteristics that are reflected in the forms taken citizen empowerment.
ICT is as perverse as the wheel.
There is nothing more perverse than round. We never know where to begin or where to end ... also has the tendency to turn, dares to be on the move looking does not change. It is the repetition of the same "Do you know of any time that reflect the influence of the wheel in citizen empowerment?
What are the specific perversions of ICTs?
Virtual Ubiquity spatiotemporal . Through ICTs, it is possible to emulate the promised global citizenship: We (power, that's the key, for better or worse, but always able to) not just be here and there, but while pregnant, and not just in one time, but we can be here, there, now, before and later, in many combinations of these variables as the imagination can or be able to conceive.
This feature of ICT makes possible, like wheel design allowed the tradition, another form of historical memory, which is essential for better empowerment of the citizenry. Thus, citizens who are empowered by using ICTs, historical memory does not repetitive, but always and everywhere present .
virtually People can sign a petition in favor of a requirement that an invisible government in space is far more appropriate adjective to the time of the printing press, whose record-word that refers to the subjective search for information rather than an official history, again, more suitable to the public in the form of print, I can refresh my memory (brain, ram, removable ...) through a search of data, to add my action to that of many others impact together in a probable future.
How ICT enables the empowerment of the citizenry is ubiquitous, and while that is not anywhere . This little perversion allows us, in words of Idelfonso Mayorgas "The right to be represented and participate actively in decisions that affect them. Actions ranging from the inside out, as opposed to the artificial and foreign policy implementation. Stop seeing people impersonally grouped by color or economic level but as empowered individual citizens. "
Another of the peculiarities of ICT is to be the electronic analogy of what was in primitive times the drum, the flame spreads in a cathartic reaction . Panic and the consequent rush of fear spread by burning company once it has sounded the alarm, the difference with the oral rumor is that through ICT, the news caused emotional empathy, while the oral rumor is the story of what happens only to other people.
citizenship that are empowered through ICT reaction to the announcements of danger and, in the same way, ready for action when you hear the clarion call of battle to defend the rights of flag ... as alluded to react personally as global citizens. Not everyone respond to PETA's call as not all and not all respond to the call of Greenpeace, it's up to the quality of discernment, but form of so-called through ICT delas has this quality of contagious spread.
Finally, the feature of ICT that brings a whole different shade of citizen empowerment is the deliverance from the power . As the brain, ICT is a flexible electrical network, open, changing, dynamic and energizing, continuously fed back and transformative relationship with the personal environment, socio-cultural, economic, political, environmental ...
So, citizen empowerment using ICT as a tool, paradoxically, has the form of an organic flow . Feature that makes this tool one in which the thought and action can be deployed in a more complex, multidimensional eco-systemic knowledge and methods that challenges pre-established, thought and action in a plural subject "REALITY AS LIBERATION" (The Thought complex, Edgar Morin .)
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