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Friday 10th March 2000 9.30pm gmt
PASSPORT TO A GLOBAL VILLAGE
Until now, humanity has never had such scientific and technical potential at
its
disposal, capable of transforming the world into a global village. There is
enough
accumulated knowledge to allow humanity to enjoy widespread equitable
welfare,
but the singular paradox is that inequality is increasingly immense
Can the 300 million people in the world without running water consider
themselves
inhabitants of this alleged global village? Or the 35 million unemployed,
not
counting the other ten million who have lost hope of finding a job and
therefore do
not even figure in official figures?
Do the 235 million poor of Latin America, half the population of the region,
have
access to this global village? Only finance capital, highly qualified
professionals of
the first world and those immigrants who are willing to take on work
rejected by
comfortable citizens in wealthy nations have passports giving them access to
this
macro world.
"NGOs of the South must exchange scientific knowledge, we cannot lag behind
in
technology," said Winston Mison, researcher at the Institute of African
Studies,
based in South Africa.
The South African representative also went on to urge "restructuring the
North-
South discourse to achieve greater transparency in the International
Monetary
Fund and the World Bank."
Unity among the representatives...
http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/pas/pas.html
