LIFT: Paul Oberson: Technology in the humanitarian world.

Polycrate’s son: his son is thought to be the source of democracy…which is basically an evolution of the structure of information from tyranny to democracy…

In this new model, there are different levels of involvement: there are delegations > headquarters > communities > individuals… and then different types of categories of those agents: development, emergency, general public, victims. The relations between these elements are either job related duties, then internal communication and Internet.

There could be a relationship between people and delegations with the Internet. In some countries there is more of a societal structure that the internet does not need to support and less technology is needed as the social richness and a lot of information is circulating naturally.

The difference with the digital divide there is now a direct link between victims and the general public so the mediation that was usually done on the part of NGO’s is no longer needed.

There is a real need to move to a model of post-modernism that we need to move to a model of service offer rather than objects as the old industrial model used to advocate.

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