scholarly journals Creating Model Citizens for the Information Age: Canadian Internet as Civilizing Discourse Policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Flows ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Le Canada

Abstract: In the late 1990s, the Government of Canada launched a string of initiatives to usher its citizens into the “information age.” Recently, the federal government has announced “mission accomplished” in its pledge to become a “model user” of information technology, recognized around the world as the country most connected to its citizens. This paper interrogates the term “model user” as a marker of the changes occurring to techniques of government in our expanding information society. It proposes that the “model user” represents ways to negotiate the changing relationship between nation, state, and citizen associated with economic restructuring and signals a new civilizing discourse for citizen conduct amid the dynamic flows of information and ideas. Further, the “model user” suggests an emphasis on innovation that is implicated within larger discourses of economic globalization and the premium placed on adaptability and creativity. Finally, this paper makes vivid the connections between the “model user” and emerging discourses of Canada as a “model democracy” and Canadians as “model citizens” within the global context. Résumé : À la fin des années 90, le gouvernement du Canada a créé une série d’initiatives afin de lancer ses citoyens dans « l’ ère de l’information ». Tout récemment, le gouvernement fédéral a proclamé « mission accomplie” en ce qui concerne son objectif de devenir un « utilisateur modèle » des technologies de l’information, reconnu à travers le monde comme étant le pays le plus connecté à ses citoyens. Cet article interroge le terme d’ « utilisateur modèle » en tant que marqueur des changements qui affectent les techniques de gouvernance dans notre société de l’information toujours grandissante. Il propose que « l’utilisateur modèle », d’une part, illustre les façons de négocier la relation changeante entre nation, État et citoyen qui est associée aux restructurations économiques et, d’autre part, signale un nouveau discours civilisateur pour la conduite du citoyen plongé dans les courants dynamiques d’informations et d’idées. De plus, l’ « utilisateur modèle » met l’accent sur l’innovation et s’insère dans un discours plus large sur la globalisation économique et sur la valeur accordée à l’adaptabilité et la créativité. Finalement, cet article met en lumière les liens qui existent entre l’ « utilisateur modèle » et les discours émergents qui présentent le Canada comme une “démocratie modèle » et les Canadiens comme « citoyens modèles » au sein d’un contexte global.

scholarly journals Canada’s Role in International Organizations, Trade Negotiations and Sanctions

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Kreshnik Aliaj ◽  
Genc Mekaj
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
International Context ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Review ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada

In this era where international regional integration and processes to promote globalization are at the forefront of political issues on the world stage, every region of the world, whether sovereign or non-sovereign, is seeking in this globalization mechanism to promote its interests, be they cultural, political or economic. At various levels, Canada, like other territories around the world, is trying to play its game well in this international context, as well as placing its pawns on the world stage. Canada is distinguished for a difficult relationship with the multilateral world, renounced by a number of international councils. The Government of Canada should be more cautious about complicated multilateral processes and should have a good review of all the organizations it is part of.

scholarly journals Towards a better understanding of socially responsible behavior among young Saudi Arabians: The case of energy saving

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Tlili et al. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Saudi Arabians

Energy consumption in Saudi Arabia is still almost three times the world average today, and the government is seeking to instill a culture of energy saving in the rising generation. Our research's main objective is to expose young people's explanatory attitude antecedents towards energy saving. Indeed, with reference to the current global context of dwindling resources, it is relevant to identify the levers of action to guide consumers towards socially responsible behavior. A quantitative study among 217 young Saudi Arabians and modeling structural equations highlighted the significant impact of subjective norms, cognitions resulting from awareness campaigns as well as the power of habits and the need to preserve comfort. This research has important implications for a country orienting its strategies towards greater social responsibility.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dalam Peningkatan Mutu Pendidikan Islam di Madrasah

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aji Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
World Society ◽  
Global Village ◽  
New Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Community Information ◽  
Information And Technology

Perkembangan masyarakat dunia telah memasuki masyarakat informasi yang merupakan kelanjutan dari masyarakat modern dengan ciri-cirinya yang bersifat rasional, berorientasi ke masa depan, terbuka, menghargai waktu, kreatif, mandiri, dan inovatif, atau biasa disebut dengan global village yaitu Perkawinan antara teknologi transmisi mutakhir dengan komputer melahirkan sebuah era baru yaitu era informasi, yang dapat dikatakan sebagai world of the year. Disebut masyarakat informasi ditandai dengan penguasaan teknologi informasi, mampu bersaing, serba ingin tahu, imajinatif, mampu mengubah tantangan menjadi peluang, dan menguasai berbagai metode dalam pemecahan masalah. Sebab, problem yang muncul dizaman globalisasi ini jauh lebih kompleks dan memerlukan respons yang lebih beragam dan akomodatif, dan dengan menggunakan perangkat teknologi Informasi tersebut untuk mencari, mengeksplorasi, menganalisis, dan saling tukar informasi secara efisien dan efektif, siswa akan dengan cepat mendapatkan ide dan pengalaman dari berbagai kalangan dan pendidikan atau pembelajaran akan lebih berkembang dan terbantu terhadap proses pembelajaran bagi setiap siswa. The world society development has entered into information society as a continuation of modern society. The characteristics of the information society is rational, future-oriented, open-minded, appreciate the time, creative, independent, and innovative. The time of global village will be born is the fusion of sophisticated transmission technology with a computer that yield a new era of information age, as the world of the year. Community information society is characterized by the mastery of information and technology, is able to compete, inquisitive, imaginative, and able to turn challenges into opportunities, and master various methods in problems solving. These challenges require a response that is more diverse and accommodating. Information and technology are solution and response that serves to find, explore, analyze, and exchange information efficiently and effectively. Thus, students will quickly get the ideas and experiences of the various circles, so that learning will be more developed and assisted with the process of study by student. Kata Kunci: Teknologi Informasi, Pendidikan Islam, Pembelajaran

The African Information Society Initiative: A Seven-year Assessment (1996-2002)

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hafkin
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
African Countries ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The World

AbstractThis paper provides a contemporary historical analysis of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), the first systematic and comprehensive effort by African governments to bring their countries into the information age. Covering the period 1996- 2002, it is based on interviews, documentary and statistical sources, press reports, parliamentary records, and participant observation. For the first five years of the time-span of the study, the author was a senior official of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in charge of coordinating the AISI. While this may put the objectivity of the author in question, it also brings the advantages of direct personal knowledge of the events and processes described. The paper examines the origins of the Initiative, its content, the process of its implementation, its achievements, and its constraints. The paper's narrative looks at how and why the Initiative developed as it did, in particular with relation to policy decisions. Additionally, the paper presents an AISI progress index, which represents an attempt to measure the relative positions of African countries on each of the major dimensions of the Initiative. It concludes with a brief analysis of how Africa stands in relation to the rest of the world in the utilization of information technology for development and what it needs to do to accelerate its progress.

scholarly journals The Absentee Minister of Education of Canada: The Canadian federal government’s constitutional role in First Nations education

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Ron Sydney Phillips
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
First Nations Education

In Canada, education is generally referred to as being the exclusive constitutional responsibility of the provinces and territories. However, the federal government has a constitutional responsibility. This responsibility comes from the Constitution Act 1982 and Treaties 1 - 11 between the Crown (i.e., The Government of Canada) and First Nations throughout Canada. It is very difficult to find any mention of the federal government’s constitutional education responsibilities in the literature or documents. This has allowed the federal government to downplay their educational responsibilities throughout Canada and the world. This paper examines the federal government’s constitutional responsibilities in First Nations education and makes recommendations.

scholarly journals Alexa, Please: Babysit My Child

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Kayla Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
At Home

According to the Statistics Canada report from 2019, when it comes to the amount of time spent online, Canada beats out every other country in the world. This has likely been amplified due to the stay-at-home order caused by the COVID-19 crisis, hence why the new Bill C-11 will strengthen the current policies defending Canadians from corporate digital overstep. Alexa, Please: Babysit My Child will explore, analyze, and evaluate Amazon's neuro-capitalistic technologies, specifically pertaining to the technologies made for child-use. Neuro-capitalism is dangerous as it speaks to controlling the mind through the current hyper-technological society. Jurisdictional complexity surrounding A.I. and cybersecurity can be mitigated by government-funded education. Therefore, my research explores the question: From a neuro-capitalistic & digital-colonial standpoint, to what extent are Amazon's child-targeted technologies' (such as Kindle 4 Kids) consistent with the privacy policies of the new, proposed Bill C-11? This policy analysis will consist of three sections—first, an analysis of Amazon's Kindle 4 Kids Terms and Conditions (Site 1). Second, an evaluation of Bill C-11’s ability to protect children from the pernicious aspects of neuro-capitalism (Site 2). Lastly, a compare and contrast section of the two entities, ending with a discussion of the findings. Particularly during the COVID-19 crisis, we must be sure that the Government of Canada is doing everything in their power to aid the youth of the country that spends the most time online and the most time with their babysitter: Alexa. 

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dalam Peningkatan Mutu Pendidikan Islam di Madrasah

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aji Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
World Society ◽  
Global Village ◽  
New Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Community Information ◽  
Information And Technology

Perkembangan masyarakat dunia telah memasuki masyarakat informasi yang merupakan kelanjutan dari masyarakat modern dengan ciri-cirinya yang bersifat rasional, berorientasi ke masa depan, terbuka, menghargai waktu, kreatif, mandiri, dan inovatif, atau biasa disebut dengan global village yaitu Perkawinan antara teknologi transmisi mutakhir dengan komputer melahirkan sebuah era baru yaitu era informasi, yang dapat dikatakan sebagai world of the year. Disebut masyarakat informasi ditandai dengan penguasaan teknologi informasi, mampu bersaing, serba ingin tahu, imajinatif, mampu mengubah tantangan menjadi peluang, dan menguasai berbagai metode dalam pemecahan masalah. Sebab, problem yang muncul dizaman globalisasi ini jauh lebih kompleks dan memerlukan respons yang lebih beragam dan akomodatif, dan dengan menggunakan perangkat teknologi Informasi tersebut untuk mencari, mengeksplorasi, menganalisis, dan saling tukar informasi secara efisien dan efektif, siswa akan dengan cepat mendapatkan ide dan pengalaman dari berbagai kalangan dan pendidikan atau pembelajaran akan lebih berkembang dan terbantu terhadap proses pembelajaran bagi setiap siswa. The world society development has entered into information society as a continuation of modern society. The characteristics of the information society is rational, future-oriented, open-minded, appreciate the time, creative, independent, and innovative. The time of global village will be born is the fusion of sophisticated transmission technology with a computer that yield a new era of information age, as the world of the year. Community information society is characterized by the mastery of information and technology, is able to compete, inquisitive, imaginative, and able to turn challenges into opportunities, and master various methods in problems solving. These challenges require a response that is more diverse and accommodating. Information and technology are solution and response that serves to find, explore, analyze, and exchange information efficiently and effectively. Thus, students will quickly get the ideas and experiences of the various circles, so that learning will be more developed and assisted with the process of study by student. Kata Kunci: Teknologi Informasi, Pendidikan Islam, Pembelajaran

scholarly journals “Visible” ethnic communities in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemics

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Tatyana Kuzmina
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada

The author turns to the aspect of the development of the pandemic in Canada, which rarely becomes the focus of attention of political reviewers of the COVID-19 strategy of the Canadian government of J. Trudeau – the situation in visible ethnic communities and among first-generation immigrants from South Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, etc. The universal multicultural strategy of the Government of Canada has left these groups underrepresented and, thus, made them marginal from the socio-political standpoint, which resulted in an increase in infection and mortality rates among them. The federal and regional governments” official documents and independent surveys in Canada have been analyzed including the opinions of Canadian specialists in medicine, politics and sociology for the period from 2020 to 2021. Canada's experience may be applicable for planning antivirus measures in other regions of the world.

On retroeconomy

2017 ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
V. Papava
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

This paper analyzes the problem of technological backwardness of economy. In many mostly developing countries their economies use obsolete technologies. This can create the illusion that this or that business is prosperous. At the level of international competition, however, it is obvious that these types of firms do not have any chance for success. Retroeconomics as a theory of technological backwardness and its detrimental effect upon a country’s economy is considered in the paper. The role of the government is very important for overcoming the effects of retroeconomy. The phenomenon of retroeconomy is already quite deep-rooted throughout the world and it is essential to consolidate the attention of economists and politicians on this threat.

Information society in Ukraine in the world rankings: status and challenges

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Natalija Vasileva ◽  
◽  
Viktor Kavura ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
The World
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