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A General Introduction |
United Nation
conferences and trade
negotiations to agree on
the broad lines, the
rules, the
socio-economic goals and
environment policies
lacked mechanisms and
accountability and were
biased to the advanced
countries and the
stronger companies.
“A good example for this
is the bias of the rules
of trade liberalization
of the WTO, which
usually forces the
developing countries to
open their markets to
the imports from the
developed countries, but
does not open or widen
the developed countries
markets to the exports
of the developing
countries”
Source. |
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A parallel globalization
of social movement: |
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Information and
communication technology led to a parallel
globalization of the social movements.
Organizations of the civil society, female
organizations, syndicates, environment
protectors, farmers’ unions, social justice
campaigns-gathered and united in international
nets as a one side opposition to the
globalization, which leads to inequality |
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Meeting points:
These movements have met on the Internet and in
the NGO forums for the United Nation
conferences, and sometimes in streets like what
happened in Seattle in 1999. |
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Table : Internet Users (Thousands) by region
2000-2002 |
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2000
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2001
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2002
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% of Change
2000-01
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% of Change
2001-02
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Africa
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4559
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6510
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7943
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42.8
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22.0
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Asia
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109257
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150472
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201079
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37.7
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33.6
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Europe
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110824
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143915
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166387
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29.9 |
15.6
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Latin
America &Caribbean
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17673
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26163
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35459
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48.0
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35.5
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North
America
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136971 |
156823 |
170200 |
14.5 |
8.5
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Oceania
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8248 |
9141 |
10500 |
10.8 |
14.9
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Developing
Countries
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93161 |
135717 |
189882 |
45.7 |
39.9
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Developed
Countries
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294371 |
357307 |
401686 |
21.4 |
12.4
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World
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387531 |
493024 |
591567 |
27.2 |
20.0
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More Resources |
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Hafkin,
Nancy and Nancy Taggart.
(2001)
Gender, Information
Technology, and
Developing Countries: An
Analytic Study.
(USAID's Office of Women
in Development) |
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James,
Jeffrey.(1999)
Globalization, information technology and
Development (London: Macmillan
Press) |
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Kirkman
Geoffrey S., Cornelius Peter K., Sachs
Jeffrey D., Schwab Klaus. (2002)
The Global Information
Technology Report (London: Oxford
University Press) |
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