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Studying, promoting and experiencing solutions through organizational non utilized resources
Garry JACOBS
Friday, December 13, 2002 12:43 AM
(n. f. This message includes both a listing of ideas for a more effective
and successful global governance and ideas about what a world parliament
should actually do, which is the theme for the fourth month. We would ask
you to focus your responses on how such ideas can be used in the
development of a more responsible and effective global governance, rather
than on how such ideas could or should be carried out or implemented by a
world parliament ? which we will again be discussing in the fourth month.
Thanks)
ººº WP should be a place for actively researching on solutions for the
development of the World and the poor countries. In this sense, development
is in proportion to the extend people become conscious and the level of
organization build up to support higher levels of activity. Deep analyses
should be done and solutions to be promoted and experienced for take a
better profit of the organizing resources of these countries. ººº
World Parliament is a centre of mental light, not an organisation that can
implement anything. UN itself is a forum of that type, since its power is
only in persuasion. In this sense World Parliament is capable of an
effectivity which information or ideas possess.
World Parliament can enhance * information * in areas where information is
efficacious. It can offer ideas that will readily be received.
World Parliament can try to further activities which were initiated already,
but which have come to a stop or are moving slowly.
The very first thing World Parliament can do is to
1. Spotlight what an organisation like UN (which has no power) has achieved
in health, education, pollution, science, etc. Comparing it with fields of
global activity where no such effort was undertaken by UN.
2. Development is in proportion to the extend people become conscious and
the level of organization build up to support higher levels of activity.
World Parliament can create * scales * (indices) of accomplishment in
various fields, similar to the Human Development Index, Freedom Index, etc.
Creating scales for these in every field like human rights, health (for
every disease), utilization of supportive social systems such as insurance,
education (for different categories and levels, and for different
expressions of education in society such as education in newspaper reading,
education on women's rights, health education, etc.) Such information
converted into quantitative scales can become a useful tools for nations to
assess their strengths and weaknesses and further their development.
3. List out what every nation can usefully emulate from any other nation and
develop it into a detailed list.
4. The integration of two or more sectors of social activity, organization
or technology leads to a multiplication of their productive power, as the
combination of computer and telecommunications has given rise to the
Internet which integrates multiple functions including news delivery,
education, commerce, and entertainment. World Parliament can identify all
instances of such integration and emphasize the productive * power * that
issues from integration of two or more sectors.
5. Sponsor the cause of Internet and computer as the invention which can
most dramatically transform society as the car and electricity have done
early in the 1900's. Quantifying their potential impact wherever possible,
WP can help out bring their potential in a manner so that nations can
readily act on that information.
6. Fight superstitions of all kinds. a. Terrorism -- Show the destructive
value of terrorism. Explain it theoretically. Terrorism arises from the
frustration of poverty. Carry out a study covering the past 500 years to
show how futile terrorism is as a means of progress for a community. b.
Science -- Superstition in the name of Science is more dangerous than
illiteracy as it creates an organisation of educated Ignorance. c. Collect
two lists of superstitions over the ages and post them against opinions of
today on modern development. Disenchant people about ideas and practices
based on the superstition of social conformity, such as the prevalent
practice that society accepts any scientific theory only when eminent men
approve of it. d. Medicine, Democracy, Education and every other field is
replete with such bygone ideas that are anachronisms which retard further
development.
7. Highlight the fact that UN is non-democratic.
8. Examine and highlight the unconsciousness of society about the crucial
role of social organization in development and its contribution to past
achievements. For example, after achieving phenomenal success during Green
Revolution, India fails to understand the crucial role which social
organization played in that achievement and therefore is unable to extend
that success to other fields. Evaluate every country, every sector globally
and nationally on the scale of organisation.
9. Objectively and dispassionately examine the role of co-operation,
imitation, emulation, help and service in development to identify its
rightful, constructive role when free from our preferences, conventional
beliefs and dogmas: a. In which fields and to what extent does aid,
imitation, humanitarian service actually result in or assist development? To
what extent and in what ways does it undermine or short-circuit the
development process? b. As in any other field there are unexplored areas
under each head, positive roles and negative impacts. Do a historical study
of facts. Do not take for granted that either service is of value or that
each one should stand on his own legs without external support. Let it be a
factual study.
10. Study the scope of economic cooperation between adjoining states and
their value to defuse conflicts.
11. Study and quantify how much poor nations can benefit by * organisation *.
12. Approach each problem of the world to identify information and ideas
that can readily be of direct use.
13. Create an imaginary * model * in one country on a small scale of about
million people, a model to show the immediate possibilities for accelerating
development by providing information and enhancing organization. Document
the process to illustrate the difference between Before and After.
14. Assess the unutilized excess of social organizational potential which
can be harnessed to accelerate development. For example, Princess Diana's
popularity was an unutilized potential that could be harnessed to support
elimination of land mines. The Internet has brought out such a potential for
education of the neo-literates and adults. Physical exercise has such a
potential for improving the health of the population. Education has such
potential to reduce fertility rates and improve child nutrition. A
comprehensive list of such unutilized potentials of all types will help
societies become conscious of the possibilities to increase the speed of
development.
15. There are at least 100 potent new educational methods available over 50
or 100 years to which the world is blind. Emancipate education from the
shackles of reactionary conservatism on the theoretical front.
16. Save democracy from the slave mentality that pervades all existing
fields. Plead strongly for the removal of monarchist anachronisms by
providing a long list of examples.
17. Show the great potentials of backward nations and the deep reactionary
mentality of modern nations. Exhaust the list.
18. Examine the immediate possibility of making graduation the compulsory
minimum education if military expenditure is abolished and all the existing
potentials of national material resources, especially organisational
resources, are fully utilised.
19. Plead for the Century of the liberated * individual * and show he can
abolish all the problems himself when freed.
When World Parliament finalises a list of recommendations, it should
endeavor to address * all * the Parliaments of the world through its
delegations * simultaneously *.
Garry Jacobs
Pondicherry, India
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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