Social Media and Stabilization

According to an article by The New Internationalist, it cites how technology has actually stabilized countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

"Each element of the digital technology used in communication has a particular function.  The internet is useful for information dissemination and gathering social media for connecting and coordinating groups and individuals, mobile phones for taking pictures of what is happening and making it available to a wide global audience and satellite television for instant global reporting of events. For dissedents all of these digital tools allow them to bring together remote and often disparate groups, and give them channels to bypass conventional media which is usually state controlled and unwilling to broadcast any news of civil unrest and opposition to the government and help stabilize the Middle East and North Africa since 2010."

In summary of the video, the spokesman basically said if we are to stabilize this world we are going to have to catch these poverty stricken countries up to our economic level.  And we can do that through technology. We need to quit thinking Western Europeans are something special and start equalizing all people of this globe.

I did learn in History 1700 that countries that manufacture have strong economies. Nixon opened China for trade with the vision the US would be manufacturing for Chinese consumers. As it stands China turned the tables and we became consumers for their manufacturing. Our economy has struggled since we became a service oriented country. And as the video highlighted, Asia is now fast becoming a world power because of their economy.

We as a global community need to figure out how all countries can contribute economically.