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Mit dem Argument:
größere Verbreitung des Internet -> mehr Bildung/Chancen/Integration ->
weniger Terror
RB
Clinton called for a recognition from legislators in the U.S. that as
well as all the money being earmarked for defense spending, a healthy
proportion should be set aside to "spread the benefits, using
technology, so there are fewer terrorists."
RB
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174799.html
Clinton Links Net To Terror, Digital Divide Policies
By Adam Creed, Newsbytes
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA,
27 Feb 2002, 5:21 AM CST
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton today called on the global
information technology (IT) industry and governments to consider the
ways in which technology can develop globalization into a force toward a
more integrated world.
Clinton was speaking on the first day of the World Congress on IT, the
flagship annual event of the World Information Technology and Services
Alliance (WITSA).
In a speech laced with references to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
Clinton's theme was the potential and power of IT - particularly the
Internet - to build a world with "more partners and fewer terrorists."
"We are more and more connected in a web of possibility that has not yet
run its course," Clinton told the audience of 1,800 delegates and media
representatives.
"The challenge is to make an interdependent world integrated," he said.
Clinton, who reminded the audience that his presidency was blessed with
economic growth of 30 percent thanks to the IT boom, backed information
and communication technologies as the main facilitator of this
transformation.
While concentrating on the global digital divide, he didn't
underestimate the power of technology in the more immediate, so-called
"War on Terror."
The former president said that during his time in office, the security
services prevented terrorist attacks that would have resulted in more
deaths than on Sept. 11. And yet, he now recognized that the
administration never really made the most of the information technology
at its disposal.
He said the FBI was using a 30-year-old computer system that wasn't even
integrated with other law enforcement agencies.
"So IT is of enormous importance in the ability of nations to defend
themselves ... and to strike back, as the world saw news reports of
robot-guided warfare in Afghanistan," he said.
But Clinton called for a recognition from legislators in the U.S. that
as well as all the money being earmarked for defense spending, a healthy
proportion should be set aside to "spread the benefits, using
technology, so there are fewer terrorists."
He called for a new round of debt relief for developing nations so more
remote places in the world can access a computer or the Net, get
education and health information, and expand their choices.
Out-of-date text books, or no text books, would no longer be a problem
if the world could ensure that every remote village had just one
computer and printer, he said.
"Distance education may be the only route to higher education in some
parts of developing countries," Clinton added.
Likewise, distance learning has a huge potential to address health
problems and education, including by delivering AIDS prevention
programs. Clinton told of one Indian villlage he had visited that had a
PC for new parents to print out a guide to the first six months of
parenting.
"They can't do this in every village," he said. "But if they did it
could change the health outcomes for millions and millions of people."
It's a basic start, he said, and technology has a huge role to play
addressing the digital divide, defense and the environment.
Clinton was speaking in Adelaide, Australia at the World Congress on IT.
WITSA represents national IT associations from 41 countries.
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