SLEEPWALKING TO A CONTROL SOCIETY 10 TRENDS WE NEED TO KNOW KAI EKHOLM, Chair of FAIFE, National Librarian of Finland.

SLEEPWALKING TO

A CONTROL SOCIETY

10 TRENDS WE NEED TO KNOW

KAI EKHOLM, Chair of FAIFE, National Librarian of Finland

We cannot solve the dilemmas

with the same thinking that created them.

  Albert Einstein

TO THE CENSORSHIP IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

• Journalists without barriers inform that the Internet censorship increased last year rapidly.

• More than 60 countries censored Internet in 2010.

• Many countries have new laws to prevent the freedom of speech of the citizens.

INFORMATION as

• Freedom

• Control

Two basic assumptions

1800 - 1900 1945 - 2000 2010 2015

Media diversity and presence

ERA OF ICT AND INTERNET

Classic censorship and control of publishingas punishment and ruling

Censorhip and cold war:Soviet censorship, Mccarthyism in the USA

Net censorship doubled : 60 countries use net censorship

Age of terrorism and fundamentalism : USA Patriotic Act, Sweden FRA-lakiraise of Islamist fundalism

Fundamentalism in USA

Wikileaks: ’Controller of controllers ’

Captive societies:(China, N-Korea, Iran, Myanmar)

Ubiq technologies

ERA OF PRINT TECHNOLOGY

Interactive technologyIn use of dissidents(and the rulers)

Social media

Security/conflict filtering

Social filteringPolitical filtering

IndiaMorocco

Yemen

South Korea

ChinaEthiopiaIranMyanmarPakistan

Saudi ArabiaSyriaTunisiaUAE

OmanSingaporeSudan

ThailandUzbekistanVietnam

Bahrain

Figure 1.7 Content fitlering choises

OCCASIONS REACT

WHAT IS GOING ON?

TRENDS PREDICT

HOW DO WE COPE WITH THE CONTEXT?

STRUCTURES PLAN

DEEP THOUGHTS DISCUSS

What is supporting the negative trends in our behaviour?

1. "Internet is dead"

Free  use of Internet is limited to the Western

world.

2. Western countries have resorted to excess of justifiable defense

3. The threshold for the control has become

lower

• Powerful new technologies• Weakening privacy laws• The "War on Terror”• Courts that are letting

privacy rights slip away• Big corporations willing to

become extensions of the surveillance state

4. The unbearable presence of the

ubiquitous information society

5. Database Citizenship –

a new form of citizenship

6. Commercial control set restrictions on the

data

7. Copyright issues and patent quarrels have become questions of

surveillance.

8. The role of the controller moves over

to those who disseminate information

9. The paradoxes of openness and transparency

10.  Media freedom calls for a defense of e-

citizenship   

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