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Scenarios for a Sustainable Information Society Strategy for the Mediterranean Region Jesse Marsh Atelier Studio Associato [email_address] www.atelier.it

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Globalisation <ul><li>Three main centres of power: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>USA </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>European Union </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>South-East Asia </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Sources of competitiveness in the global economy: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Systemic technological capacity </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Access to a large, integrated, affluent market </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Differential between production costs and market prices </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Political capacity to steer growth strategies </li></ul></ul><ul><li>The new international division of labor : </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Producers of high value , based on informational labor ; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Producers of high volume , based on lower-cost labor ; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Producers of raw materials , based on natural endowments ; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Redundant producers, reduced to devalued labor … </li></ul></ul>From Manuel Castells, “The Rise of the Network Society”

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Technology Definitions from The American Heritage Dictionary, Microsoft Bookshelf 1. a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives. B. The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective. 2. Anthropology. The body of knowledge available to a civilization that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials. A humourous invention for a fork-pen that allows employees to work during lunch. A material object produced for an industrial objective (shipping wine), transformed by social practice.

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Creativity of milieu From Charles Landry/Comedia, “Helsinki: Towards a Creative City, Seizing the Opportunity and Maximising Potential”

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Sustainability

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Cultures: Centrum CENTRUM

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Cultures: Peripheria CENTRUM PERIPHERIA

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Cultures: Mediterranea CENTRUM PERIPHERIA MEDITERRANEA

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Creativities

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An example: tourism <ul><li>What are people buying from other people? </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>In relation to sustainable well-being, in increasing order of local added value and not considering getting there... </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Nice pictures of the natives </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Redundant producers, reduced to devalued labour” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>A week on the beach </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Producers of raw materials, based on natural endowments” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Cheap carpets, ceramics, etc. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Producers of high volume, based on lower-cost labour” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>New knowledge about other cultures </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Producers of high value, based on informational labour” </li></ul></ul></ul>

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Knowledge Economies KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION KNOWLEDGE “ MINING” CENTRUM PERIPHERIA MEDITERRANEA Metaphor: patents per year of T. A. Edison Metaphor: mining gold in the Mekong river Raw Material: Capital Resources Raw Material: Cultural Resources Transforming “embedded knowledge” into global niche market products Creating “new knowledge” for global mass market products

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Policy directions <ul><li>The promotion of open local networks which can interlink different types of actors </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Political capacity to steer growth strategies” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>Emphasize cultural added value rather than lower cost of labour </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Differential between production costs and market prices” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>Integration of electronic commerce and international networks with local realities </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Access to a large, integrated, affluent market” </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>Diffusion of media and communicational competence for bottom-up empowerment </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>“ Systemic technological capacity” </li></ul></ul></ul>

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Enabling trends <ul><li>INFORMATION  COMMUNICATION </li></ul><ul><li>PRODUCT  PROCESS </li></ul><ul><li>SECTORIAL  INTEGRATED </li></ul><ul><li>HOMOGENEITY  MOLTEPLICITY </li></ul><ul><li>LINEAR  CYCLICAL </li></ul><ul><li>COORDINATION  ANIMATION </li></ul><ul><li>EVOLUTION  RUPTURE </li></ul>