Participation and Action as a Global Citizen in the Workplace

In this post we will discuss the global citizenship in the workplace.

What is a global corporate citizen?

A global corporate citizen always try to place their work in a global context in order to make the difference in the world. It is a person who always work respecting the global ethics, their own ethics and the ethics of the company. So in the first instance it seems hard because there are three kind of ethics, however they are really close with each other. Another important characteristic of a global corporate citizen is that they are engaged with a broad world, they have a good awareness about different cultures and interconnections (tree of life).

What the companies do for support that?

Most of the companies have a special department called by Human Resources (HR) that cares about their employees and the work place. The HR helps the company to show clearly to the employees what are their goals and ideals, they also provide courses in order to improve their employees as good citizens and also have more knowledge about the world situation. Many companies also work in volunteer programs with their employees, which is really good because it motivate people to do good things without receive money, it is just for the humanitarian improvement. Moreover, many companies realize that sometimes the knowledge can come from outside the company, it means that the flexibility is an important factor in regards to the global corporate citizen.

What kind of action help to improve the global citizenship inside the workplace?

For answer this question we will divide the actions in 4 areas that are shown below.

• Workplace actions

The work place must be composed by diversity, equal opportunity, respectful by the human rights and good work environment.

• Governance actions

The company must have a code of conduct offered for the employees and also they must offer a feedback to the employees in order to keep the motivation and conduct them for the focus of the company, always working with ethics.

• Environment actions

This area I reckon that it is not necessary to explain deeper, because it is widely known that every corporation that are following the principles of a global corporate citizenship they must try to improve their efficiency and technology in order to reduce the damage caused to the environment (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions).

• Community and social actions

This is also an important area that make the difference in the world. Most of the biggest companies in the world have some programs related to the social pillar where they give funds to community programs in order to help the poor people with food, health and education. For example, the corporation ExxonMobil funded some institutions in order to work against some diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa.

During the lecture of the block 9, they presented the company Cirque du Soleil as a good global corporate citizenship because they offer programs such as every year they give 1% of the company gross revenue into social and cultural action. According to Daniel Lamarre (CEO and President of Cirque du Soleil) is not just a commercial company but a company that has to play a major role as a global citizen.

Therefore, these actions above are how the companies can support corporate global citizenship

Now we are going to move to the Business Ethics.

What is Business Ethics?

As we already study in our last posts, the business ethics is the ethics applied to the business. For instance, it is the right and wrong thing that we saw before.

How to be a good professional with good values of global citizen?

Basically, in nowadays to be a good professional and also a good global corporate citizen you must have some characteristics such as respect by each other, efficiency in the work place, awareness about the environment and equality between genders (no discrimination).

Conclusion:

From my point of view, I reckon that the principles of ethics can be applied to all human activities where no business can be useful without ethics. Everyone, including the employers, have their benefits with it, however, sometimes an ethical issue will occur and it will be kind of hard to solve in an ethical manner, so you must be able to solve it by use the ethical principles of your company and never lost the mind when treating it.

Team work report

Report on team process

Our group was composed by four members that were Carolin Tzschaschel, Fernando Rocha, Renan Pelosi and I. First of all, when the teacher divided the groups we discussed about how we could make sure that we would have time and a place to do the meetings and work together. So we decided to create a group in the mobile software called by WhatsApp and also in the Facebook to make the communication easier. Secondly, we knew that we would have just two classes then we decided to do three classroom meetings before the presentation. The first meeting occurred in the day 15 of January, the second meeting was in the day 21 of January, and the last meeting was in the day 23 of January.

In the first meeting we discussed what should we present to the class and what was the main point that we would focus on. Our group came up with the idea of do a research about four companies that are considered as global corporations in the world. We discussed about which kind of companies it should be and also what kind of aspects we would analyse. The first decision that we had made were about the kind of companies should be about energy, food, clothes and transportation. We have choose those areas because they are presented in everywhere in the world and also they affect many people. After decided that, we had to divide the area that each team member would research and explain in the presentation. We just had a conversation about which topic each member was feeling comfortable to talk about. Therefore, I have got the energy area that is related to my university course (Renewable Engineering), Carolin got the food area, Fernando got the Clothes area and Renan got the transportation. Our group also divided the introduction and the conclusion for the first and the last member, Fernando and Carolin, in order to make it easier and with good flow of ideas.

After the first meeting we keep in touch by using the WhatsApp software to discuss about our presentation. Then we decided to do another meeting to complete the presentation and also show which company each team member had choose plus some material that we research about it. The second meeting occurred on the day 21 of January. In that day we were in the university library showing to our group what we have got after our research. Each team member came up with a company and a brief abstract about it business as shown below.

Fernando Pelosi: Jetstar is an airline, which provides everyday low fares flights across Australia, New Zeeland and the Asia Pacific region.

Carolin Tzschaschel: Mondelez International is the world`s largest manufacturer of chocolate, candy and biscuits and the 2^nd largest maker of gum and coffee. They sell their products in over 170 countries.

Fernando Rocha: Nike is an American multinational company engaged in the design and development of footwear, sports equipment, apparel and accessories.

Airton Matos: ExxonMobil is an American multinational oil and gas company and is consider as the world`s 5^th largest company by revenue and the biggest refinery in the world.

 After that we discussed about each positive and negative point of the companies that we had chosen and we started talking about the preparation of the PowerPoint presentation. Our group also came up with three main factors that we called by pillars that a good global citizenship corporation must have. They are economy, environment and community pillars. The first one was economy, but we decided to avoid the explanation because it was clearly enough that the companies had a really good economic plan and they were among the bests companies in the world. The environment pillar is one of the most important because it is clearly related to the global citizenship. For example, as a global citizenship we need to preserve our natural resources in order to offer it for our future generations. 

All the companies had a good plan for the environment pillar, for instance Nike has products made by recycled materials; Mondelez also do recycling of the materials utilised and programs that promote the biodiversity; Jetstar is using aircrafts that consume 20% less fuel and ExxonMobil has some environmental programs such as goals to reduce the footprint of oil and gas exploration and energy research efforts in order to maximize the efficiency and reduce the waste and greenhouse gas emissions. However, ExxonMobil is also involved with oil spills and according to Fortune Magazine it is considered one of the 20 worst corporate air polluters (http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/06/10/americas-20-worst-corporate-air-polluters/2/). In terms of the Community pillar, all of them also have good programs and goals against the poverty in the world, sexual diseases, humanitarian programs and social awareness.

 In the last meeting each member came up with a different style of presentation and their slides but we decided to use the one that Fernando came up, because it had a better design. After it we had put all the slides in the same file and we did a division of the time that we would need to present. We also complete the design of the poster (http://i.imgur.com/I9dwDQu.jpg?1 ). We had two guys in our group that worked with graphic design so the poster was the easier part of the work for them. Renan and Fernando created the poster using special software and Carolin and I we helped with the ideas and opinions about the design. Our poster it is composed by the basic information of each corporation and the global corporative citizenship scale that we gave to each company. We also decided to do not use the economy pillar in the poster because it was not necessary to mention.

Our meetings were helpful for our development as a group because we had time enough to discuss and explain our ideas about the course and the presentation.

We did not have enough time to do a deep research about those companies; however we found much information that helped us to create our final conclusion about what makes a company a global citizenship corporation.

First of all, it was possible to see that all the team members found positive aspects about the companies. However, we realised that the positive aspects were really easier to find than the negative. One question that came up to our meeting was, ``Why is so easy to find the good points and so hard to find the negative points? `` You might fall in that trap and think that it is because they do not have enough negative points to exposed, but our group realised that it was, actually, something related to control of the negative information against the huge corporations. For instance, in the case of ExxonMobil, I have found many positive aspects in terms of global citizenship corporation, such as programs that helps poor people in poor countries, scholarship for poor kids, programs that help the development of the science and technology, fight against diseases and discrimination, educational championships, programs to motivate the women as a global leader and etc. You can also find a lot of histories and information about how ExxonMobil it is a good global citizenship corporation in their website (http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/community/corporate-citizenship-report/global-stories). 

However, we need to keep our eyes wide open because even though they are showing some good programs and strategies to help people and act as a global citizenship, we also need to pay attention in what is behind all of this. We realised that almost all of the biggest companies in the world have really good programs to `help` poor people, but in the same time they also have much more bad things than good to the humanity and the world in a general way. For example, Exxon is responsible to one of the most damage oil spill in the world that occurred in Alaska 1989 and killed more than a billion of fish and more than 300 thousands birds. They are involved with problems related to human rights and illegal foreign business as well.

We can conclude that it is possible to be a really good global citizenship corporation and some of them are doing it well (e.g. Nike, Coca Cola, Mondelez, Jetstar, etc.) however many companies are trying to show a good side of being a global citizenship corporation in order to attract more investment and hide their negative points, such as ExxonMobil, that are involved with some bad points that put their image in doubt.

In the overall all the companies have got a good score in our scale because all of them have programs to help the social and environmental awareness. However, we still think about why the bad information is so hard to find in the internet? Do they hide it? Is it possible? What a company would do in order to hide their weakness and negative aspects (that sometimes overcome the positive)? Are they real global citizenship corporations?

To be considering as a good global citizenship corporation it must have a balance between the economy, environment and community pillars. In the currently world even though some companies do not care about the global citizenship it has become an important factor since the past decade that makes the difference in the world.

Working in a group was a good experience to show that when we have more people thinking about the same thing we can have more chance to broad our minds and enjoy new ideas and experiences. Working as a group is an important factor when we talk about global citizenship, because the world is too big for hold it with just our arms.

Our group was well organised and we completed the assessments in time, as well as the presentation. Every member did their part in time and attended the meetings as well as agreed before. I would say that our team members did a good job working as a team.

Poster about Global Corporate Citizenship

Link to see better: http://i.imgur.com/I9dwDQu.jpg?1

World Issues of Concern to GCs

This post is going to expose some world issues of concern to global citizens. 

So first of all, let's start talking briefly about global concerns.

What are global concerns?

Global concerns are issues that have the power to affect a huge number of people in different ways. They can be directly or indirectly related to all or most of the countries in the world. Generally, those issues need a global attention of the world to be solved.

We can divide the global concerns in areas such as shown below.

• Global economy;
• Global human development;
• Global environment and natural resources;
• Peace and security;
• Global governance.

Now I would like to focus on the main issues on those areas.

• Global economy;

The first and main problem related to the global economy, as we already explained in the last post, it is the poverty and inequality. According to UNICEF around 22 thousands of children die each day due to the poverty. I did not know about this statistic and when I realise how big is this problem I started to feel sad about it. I reckon that the poverty is one of the huge problems in the world because the money is not being well divided between the countries and the people. However, as we saw in the posts before, there are a lot of NGO's that are trying to figure out how to solve it and also trying to bring money and food for the poor people around the world. According to the lecture of block 6, around 80% of the world population are living with less than $10 per day. It is also impressive if you think how much money you earn per month in comparison with those people. Moreover, another important factor that is also related to the issues is the food security. Food security aim to ensure the access to essential nutrition.

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• Global human development;

The biggest issue of this area is related to communicable diseases and humanitarian emergences. Nowadays, the biggest disease that has led to many deaths is the Ebola, but we can also talk about the bird flu, influenza, HIV/AIDS, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis. In order to maintain and care about those diseases, the government needs to invest more money in the human health and also in the researchs in order to find a cure or at least useful treatments. According to the lecture, over 60% of the people that are living with HIV/AIDS are in Sub-Saharan Africa. It just keep showing that the poor areas of the world are suffering the worst issues.

The humanitarian emergences are related to local conflicts, epidemics, famine and natural disasters. To figure out those problems it is also necessary to do more investments in infrastructure and reseachs in order to prevent it to occur again or at least try to reduce the damage.

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• Global environment and natural resources;

The most important point here is the access to safe water. The weak sanitation or even the lack of water available has led to many deaths every day around the world. The water scarcity it is also relevant to this topic. For intance, in my country, Brazil, special in my city that is São Paulo, they are fighting against the water scarcity because there were not enough rain periods to fill the dams. However, is not possible to compare this problem of my city with, for instance, a poor region in Africa. There are also some NGO's that are working in that area. For example, I read an article few years ago about an young boy that had created a NGO in order to create water wells in a special region of Africa to help the fight against the water scarcity. The depletion of fisheries it is also an important issue because it feed over 200 million people in the world. We can also point out here the oil spills that have contributed to kill billions of fishs in the world.

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• Global governance.

One of the main issues related to it is the avoidance of human rights in same areas of the world. However, according to April Carter (2001) this is one of the most successful areas of global action. I have upload a link of a video that I found interesting about this. Whatch it below:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTD52oqIv68

Challenges to Global Citizenship

As we have seen during the course, there are some challenges to Global Citizenship. In this post I will briefly explain what challenges and how could we overcome it.

First of all, I have point out below the issues that challenge the global citizenship according to the lecture of the block 5 and 6.

Issues that challenge the Global Citizenship

1. Universal moral order
2. Economic forces
3. Multiculturalism
4. Nationalism
5. The media 

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The universal moral order is certainly an important issue that challenge the global citizenship because we always try to see the world with our eyes based on our own culture, however as we have studied in the lectures before we firstly need understand our culture for then try to understand another. Therefore, the problem is that how can we have a universal moral order in a world with so many different cultures? According to Hutchings (1999) the world has a moral law commonality that means that we all share a common need or desire. I would say that I partly agree, because we have a common desire and need however we also are composed to so many different cultures that is hard to point out something that would fit all the universal needs. Therefore, that why it can be consider as an issue.

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The economic forces are another important issue that challenge the global citizenship. First of all, it is widely known that the money is no fairly distributed around the world. It means that we have some really rich countries and a lot of poor countries that are suffering with so many problems that the money could solve. Moreover, those rich countries can use their economic force in order to explore the poor countries. For instance, we know that some countries inside Africa are being widely explored by Europeans and Americans in order to extract minerals and oil. Secondly, the capitalism even though it has led to the development of certain areas such as technology, it also have a bad side that is the exploration of the human right among the poor people.

The inequality among the world it is a problem that is going to be hardly solved because there is no way to distribute the money fairly around the world. However, we as global citizens can try to change it by avoiding certain brands that are well known for sweatshops, child labor and other scandals. 

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The multiculturalism, in Australia, is basically to make sure that all the different cultures are going to have the same rights in order to live and work here as a citizen. The lecturer also point out that there are three dimensions of the multiculturalism, which are cultural identity, social identity and productive diversity. From my point of view, Australia can be consider as a Global Country Citizenship, because they have a lot of policies that protect and encourage the difference of cultures. I would say that the multiculturalism is how the Australians are living. However, the multiculturalism also bring some issues to the Global Citizenship such as the clashing of cultures, the poor socio-economic positions of migrants, the racism and different social treatment for some cultures.

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The nationalism is used to push up the racism in certain countries where they use it in order to isolate and reject people that are not from that country. I reckon that United States of America is one of the most nationalist’s countries in the world, and I have heard so many cases of racism against non-Americans that I realize that it is also a huge gap between the global citizenship and the world.

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The mass media is the responsible of communicate the world about the global issues and topics related. However, sometimes it works against the view of a global citizenship because it is possible to control what is going to appear to the world and also control what it is going to be, a good thing or a bad thing. We also can point out that the access of the news is an important factor. Are the news being spread for everyone? What about the people who has disabilities? 

From my point of view, even though the mass media works as the biggest way to improve the communication of the news, it also works as the biggest manipulation tool for the government and powerful people where they are trying to control ourselves by spreading what they want to say or sell. It also gives even more power to the western culture upon other cultures.

The global citizenship issues in Brazil

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As a Brazilian I can say that we are fighting, unsuccessfully, against a lot of problems that affect the global citizenship. First of all, we have an inequality in the education provided by the government and private institutions. There are a disparity between the poor and the rich. The government has been founded in so many cases of corruption that it can be consider as a shame to a country of that size. The inequality in Brazil make the things harder for everyone. For example, the education is poor, so if you want to learn another language, it is necessary to pay for that. The nationalism is not a problem is Brazil, because we are one of the kindest countries in relation to foreign people. The mass media in Brazil it is controlled by the richest people and they always avoid some facts in order to keep their image of good politicians. 

In order to solve all those challenges, we need to work together as a group and global citizens. The phrase below was said by the USA President, Barack Obama and in my opinion it is a good way to fight against some of the issues treated in this text.

Partnership and cooperation among nations is no a choice, it's the only way to protect our common security and advance our common humanity. - Barack Obama

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Ethics, Leadership and Global Citizenship

When I first read the texts and watched the video provided at Moodle of this block I have just remembered that I did a course (Computers, Ethics and Society) in my University that we have studied exactly the same subject.

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What is the meaning of Ethics?

According to the Oxford Dictionaries the word Ethics is defined by: 

''Ethics means the moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.''

From my point of view, Ethics means the group of behavior and attitudes that a person has to follow in order to live in a community and it also help to maintain the social order. In other words, ethics can be consider as the reflection about the values of the social actions in a group and individual way.

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Ethics and moral, both can be related to two kind of conducts that are the Right and the Wrong.

When you think about the social actions in group or in an individual way it is always going to be two choices, one that is the right decision that comes with ethics and the one that is the wrong decision and it will come without any principle of ethics. Generally, the second choice also come with future problems. When you do something without ethics you are probably crossing the rights of someone else.

It is possible to rank many principles of ethics, however ethics can be really broad and also have different principles for specifics areas. For instance, each kind of work have their own ethics principles. I would say that one ethic principle that could be apply for every area in the world is the one that say about the respect between each other. For instance, your right finish when the right of someone starts. It means that we need to be respectful with each other. Furthermore, we also can point out some principles of ethic among the nature and environment such as the respect about our natural resources that can lead to the sustainability.

What is the difference between Ethics and Moral?

Ethics is the rules related to something in special (e.g. profession) for maintain the social order. Moral is the own rules that each one have inside their minds, in other words, their own principles to act. 

Ethics and the Global Citizenship

In the block 3 of the Summer Course, we have studied some texts that were about NGO's (non-governmental organizations), Loyalty, cultural beliefs and time (TED video), cross-cultural awareness and globally competency. First of all, we can easily point out that all of them can be discussed in terms of Ethics. Manly, the text about loyalty (see http://theconversation.com/kids-and-divided-loyalties-what-we-can-learn-from-the-sydney-riots-9662) can be consider as the most questionable. When we talk about loyalty we are also talking about culture. For instance, the author of that text point out that the loyalty can be rank in a hierarchy way where the family comes in the first stair. What happen when the loyalty comes before the Ethics? This is a question that is hard to answer, because it is always possible to refute saying that the Ethics could be changed by the culture. For example, in my country we eat some animals that in another part of the world could be seem as a non-ethical action. Furthermore, how can we say what the truth about the ethics is in regards to the global citizen? I would say that the global citizen should focus on the global ethics that involve the human rights and the respect by each other and also for the nature. Moreover, Guillaume Gevrey do a comparison of the time. He helped people to cross cultures. He also point out the difference about how each individual perceive the time. In the Hindu representation, the time is infinite, it means that it never stops. In the Judeo-Christian representation the time has the right starting and the end, which is in the apocalypse, it means that the time is finite.

What is the relation between Ethics, Leadership and Global Citizenship?

To be a global citizen you must have ethics principles in your mind. For example, the global citizen care about the environment and also about the humanitarian subjects, both of them must be worked with ethics to be sure that it is going to be a useful change in the world. The behavior of a global citizen is also an important thing, because he needs to be aware that there are global ethics and morals. The respect about the human rights and the culture are essential behaviors. The leadership with ethics make the work much fairer and the actions probably will be much more related to the way that the global citizenship work about.

We can also say that the principles of ethics and morals (manly western) are becoming globalized. However, it can lead to problems related to cultural genocide that is when one culture imposes the ethics and morals upon another culture.

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Examples positives and negatives of universal ethics and moral order.

From my point of view, I think that the universal ethics and moral order can help a lot the global community. For example, the poverty intervention realized in global scale in order to help to stop the starving in poor communities around the world. Moreover, as I point out before, there are also the NGO's that can keep the focus on social problems such as violence, poverty, healthcare, humanitarism, etc. Some NGO's can be consider as international aid, because they have a broad area of work and huge investments. The spreading of the human rights and the institutions that make it works can be consider as a positive point as well.

However, there are also some negatives point of the spreading of universal ethics and moral order. For example, even though the NGO's are helpful for many people, there are also a lot of problems related to the funds that should be used in those NGO's that are receiving a lot of money, but not spending the same amount in what they should. Some of them are well-known as 'money wash machine', it means that they are created just to have a reason to explain the money that someone have.

Furthermore, with the globalization of the ethics and moral order, some cultures are being overwritten by other cultures, and this is not really fair. The western culture has been the strongest one and it does not make some countries happier.

Globalization

What is Globalization?

According to the Business Dictionary:

 ''Globalization means the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, it may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.''

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I reckon that everybody knows what is the meaning of globalization, because it has been treated as a global term since the past few decades. In my opinion, the word globalization means the connection between countries through the goods, services and common interests in order to improve their interests. The globalization it is a result of the growth of the international trade.

What is the connection between Globalization and Global Citizenship?

Both terms are strictly connected because they are interdependent terms. As I have explained before, to be a global citizen you must think that you have a world nationality, it means that you think about the world as a big nation and you know that you are part of that and can make the difference throughout your acts. The globalization make the global citizenship a possible thing to be part of, because we could not be able to think about and do things for other countries if we did not have a connection that makes possible the communication between the countries even though they are located far.

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With the advanced technology and increased communication between the countries we now are able to do some actions even though we are really far from a place. For instance, in nowadays is possible to be part of non-government organizations (NGOs) and make donations without travelling. It makes the actions easier than before. Another important factor is the internet. The internet has been the number one in terms of connecting people. For example, we can think about the social websites that are making the difference in the world as shown in the picture below.

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Is there any problem related to the globalization in the world?

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The answer is YES. Although the globalization have many positive impacts in the world and make the communication and trade easily between the countries, it also come with some issues that must be point out. First of all, the globalization may provide the weakness to the local commerce. For instance, some products that were produced in their countries few decades ago stopped because it was cheaper to buy it of outside the country, it has led to increased levels of poverty and making the money going overseas instead of stayed in the country. Secondly, with the increased globalization our resources are going down faster than before. For example, in order to produce more products to sell it overseas some countries, such as China, have increased their emissions of greenhouse gases, which has led to more pollution in the atmosphere and huge environmental problems. Moreover, the globalization have been made the countries think that they do not need to produce their goods because it is cheaper to buy from elsewhere in the world than produce it. It creates dependence between countries in order to have the goods and services. Furthermore, can you think about how many countries are REALLY dependent of China? I cannot even think about it, but if one day China collapses, it is going to be a huge problem in the world.

From my point of view, the globalization is a good think but it has to be controlled in order to do not cause the dependence between the nations as far we are going to. To be a global citizenship it is necessary to have certain dependence of others but it has to be controlled in the mode that you can provide good things to the world but you also can survive without the good things that they provided to you. I also thought about the social difference that it has made in the world. For example, to make the production and communication possible to be executed, many people, mostly poor, are working as 'slaves' and it is a huge problem related to the human rights.