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Culture and Globalization
Culture is crucially affected by a globalized world. One impact i.e. is the private sector who, along with some governments in the North, wants to secure and broaden rights over intellectual property. Large parts of civil socitey and some international organizations, along with a number of states from the South, instead seek to broaden the global information commons and establish information and thus the basis of culture as a public, non-commercial good.
At the same time, globalization threatens cultural identities all over the world. Traditions and livelihoods of peoples for example vanish because ressources in their native areas are exploited. Instead, new cultural values can also simply take over through i.e. the media. |
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Finally: A UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity
The UNESCO has created a new international convention on cultural diversity. The step is seen as a big defeat for the US and the WTO, whose rules might be affected by the convention. Authors, actors and artists hailed the decision. more |
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Visions in process
The WSIS is devoted to the development of a vision of a global society and to finding ways to realise that vision through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). By Ralf Fuecks more |
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Living Globality: Focus on Arab Journalists
“Living Globality”, a project within HBF Beirut’s programme on cultural globalization, is meant to allow a circle of young journalists from Germany and the Arab World to create a long-term network for exchanging ideas and to co-operate in everyday work. more |
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HBF Beirut: International Symposium „Global Cities and Dislocated Citizenship“
Scholars from the Middle East, Europe and the US will meet in Beirut in December, 2005, at an international symposium to discuss the repercussions of globalization on the concept of citizenship. more |
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