Monday 07/09/12
Selamat Malam!!! (Goodnight!)!
Who starts with saying goodnight?! Well me obviously! It is the LAST WEEK of classes this week and I am already excited about the fun that begins this Friday! Well before then let me tell you about today’s lectures. It had to be the most slap you in the face lecture to wake us about about the truth about world politics (after Consumer Action Penang [CAP], then again the President was just rude in my opinion). The thing I like most about this lecture is that we were sat around a table without a powerpoint, presentation, or any type of additional assistance to make us comfortable during the lecture. The office, which was a house, was surrounded by a busy roads and construction.
Anyways, the Itinerary:
- Third World Network (http://www.twnside.org.sg/)
- Free and Easy
- Personal field trip with a few other ladies and Fieda (Mrs. Fieda will get her own personal post, love that lady!!)
- Once upon a time, before we started referring countries to developed and developing; they were known as First-, Second-, and Third-world countries.
- The gap widened between First World and Third World because the Second World either progressed or regressed, so it switched over to developed and developing. (Along with a whole other story to why the terms switched).
- Third World Network (TWN) came into existence to give the developing world a voice.
- TWN consists of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. There is a small office in the U.S. but mainly for U.N. proceedings.
- TWN is to voice concerns and collaborate on how to assist developing countries to become developed.
- Primary concern is primary healthcare.
- To become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a country had to change patent laws to where developing countries loss the little bit of rights totheir own products.
- Since the developing countries new products were no longer protected by patent laws, they were left vulnerable. The new patent laws only protect the processes not the products.
- Most developed developing countries gave in to WTO pressures to open for world trade because they needed the network to sustain their countries (at that time). Slowly but surely, those up and coming countries (Brazil & India) were abused by more powerful countries and left to regress back to a developing countries.
- Google: Reconciliation – written by press chief of India. He left India and produced South-North Development Monitor (SUNS – a daily bulletin:http://www.sunsonline.org/).
- Third World Resurgence is a publication from TWN. Seems corporations always trying to take advantage of the developing world.
- Developing countries need physical, spiritual, and intellectual property protection in order to thrive.
- TWN is a great idea but most developing countries are fed news through developed country’s news. Meaning developing news or local truths are rarely heard by the “West” and when it is finally heard, people become shocked.
