1. Broadband speed
Important for job growth, innovation and regional development.
For every $5 billion invested in broadband infrastructure to create networks, new jobs in telecoms, computer and IT sectors are created.

2. The internet and the environment
152 KWH per year to power the data centres that keep the internet running
Computers and the internet could be responsible for 2% of all human made carbon dioxide emissions.

3. What’s the connection?

5. What is it and what do they do? Use ICT to find out!

6. Can social media save the planet?
Civil society
Learning objectives: To describe the role of ICT in civil society and the transmission and flow of information, ideas and finance
Can social media save the planet?
How has social media been used? Why? What’s the message? How could it help to promote change?

7. What’s it all about?

8. Global civil society – a definition
Any organization or movement that works in the area between the household, the private sector and the state to negotiate matters of public concern. Civil societies include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups, trade unions, academic institutions and faith-based organizations. Look at the definition on toppinggeography.com for a broader explanation of civil society.

9. Anheier, Glasius and Kaldor
Protest groups acting as a counterweight to capitalism – aim to ‘civilise globalisation’
Human infrastructure needed to spread development and democracy
Groups e.g. Save the Children or Medicins sans Frontiers providing humanitarian assistance – solidarity with poor or oppressed
Growing connectedness of citizens around the world

10. ICT and civil society Examples: Openstreetmap Wikipedia Greenpeace
Political protest groups

11. Watch the videos on youtube -

12. What was the impact of the Killer KitKat campaign?

13. What is the impact of the Lego campaign?

14. http://www. theguardian

15. http://www. greenpeace

16. what are the upsides to ICT use by protest groups?
Communication of messages can be instantaneous
Use of cheap communication – can take on TNCs with massive PR budgets
Sharing information on an unprecedented scale

17. The downsides Information doesn’t have to be reliable or verified
Can cause huge damage to TNC reputations – distrust by public
Some places e.g. China, North Korea have social media censorship – the have nots of civil society?

18. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures
Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both. (geographyalltheway.com)
What can this add to your understanding of the core, periphery model and the GDD?

19. ICT and natural disasters and disaster relief
1) Media:
Major factor in donations
Overcomes media constraints of:
Space to cover other stories
Time constraints for high interest news
Therefore interest is maintained for longer periods of time. 2)
Openstreetmap use of technology to provide information in the form of GIS to aid relief

20. Governments provide information and interact electronically with citizens
Political groups run online advocacy campaigns and parties
Media and portal sites provide news and online navigation
Private sectors – represents commercially driven connectivity, software and technology.

21. What is openstreetmap.org?
How is openstreetmap.org an example of civil society?
How has openstreetmap.org been used to facilitate a flow of images, ideas and information to benefit the international response to the 2010 Haitian earthquake?

23. Political participation
To what extent does ICT contribute to civil society? Use one link each to provide EVIDENCE for the role of social networking.

24. Describe the use of information and communications technology in civil society for the transmission and flow of either images, ideas, information or finance. [10 Marks]
Use the paper 3 part a) mark bands