Communicating, Networking: Interacting: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU (SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding)

Annotation This book illustrates the benefits to be gained from digitally networked communication for health, education and transitioning economies in developing nations (Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea) and developed nations. Growing powers of e-citizenship can help build sustainable futures. This small volume provides a collection of examples and ideas from which the authors hope will help build a wider resource. Understanding how to link everyday lives with global networks in the digital world in ways that add benefit for the world's people, and the health of the planet, is an ongoing project. IYGU recognises the integral roles of networking and communication systems, as well as interactions between people, near and far, as fundamental for building better futures. The global penetration of digital devices means everyday life, present and future, is inextricably linked with information technologies Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Our Natural Systems: The Basis of all Human Enterprise....Pages 3-12 Technology Trends: Working Life with ‘Smart Things’....Pages 13-20 Citizenship, Governance and Communication....Pages 21-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Changing Cultures: Changing Lives—Mobilising Social Media During a Health Crisis....Pages 31-38 Bridging the Digital Divide: Everyday Use of Mobile Phones Among Market Sellers in Papua New Guinea....Pages 39-52 Business, Commerce and the Global Financial System....Pages 53-59 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Everyday-ing Health Literacy and the Imperative of Health Communication: A Critical Agenda....Pages 63-70 Imaging an E-future: Education as a Process Towards Understanding....Pages 71-75 Epilogue....Pages 77-77

Communication Studies; Sustainable Development; Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks