Double Journal entry #11

Why are networks better than hierarchies?

Networks are better because they adapt quickly and are much more flexible than hierarchies

What is a nation state and how is it being threatened?
 
     The new world economy and demographic forces are causing the economic and environmental systems to overflow the geographic borders of the nation-states. This causes the political system to weaken.

How is civil society gaining legitimacy over government agencies? Give an example of a NGO (Non-Government Agency) whose goals and services you think are beneficial to solving global problems.

Civil society, including non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, religious organizations, and unions, is becoming more powerful by the minute. One reason is because of its use of new technologies. Technology is making it easier to form, run, and recruit new members for civil society groups. The grassroots feel of these types of groups are make them seem more personal than governments. One example of an NGO is the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation is responsible for Wikipedia, and was ranked #1 in The Global Journal's Top 100 Best NGOs.

How can business be a helpful global enforcer?

Large global corporations have both the knowledge and the money to invest in research and concepts and charities to help the world. They also have the advantage over governments in that they are global, and governments are not. They can extend their hands much further than governments can.

What can too much economic and social change lead to?

It can lead to a backlash caused by too many people being left behind in the economic change.

What Global Issue concerns you the most? Why?

I believe that the inconsistency in new technologies across the globe is troubling. The fact that here in the United States we have access to the internet, and cell phones, and good food and clean water and medicine and hospital care, and that some people in the United States don't have any of those things, is disturbing.