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    Gordon Brown advocates for using modern technology and communication tools to promote a global ethic and work towards the common good. He argues that technology has transformed the world into a global village and gives people the power to organize internationally around issues like poverty and climate change. Brown references a global ethic outlined in the Declaration Toward a Global Ethic that promotes principles of non-violence, respect for life, solidarity, tolerance, and equal rights. The reaction paper supports Brown's message that technology provides opportunities to contribute to a more just, sustainable and interconnected world.

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    Gordon Brown advocates for using modern technology and communication tools to promote a global ethic and work towards the common good. He argues that technology has transformed the world into a global village and gives people the power to organize internationally around issues like poverty and climate change. Brown references a global ethic outlined in the Declaration Toward a Global Ethic that promotes principles of non-violence, respect for life, solidarity, tolerance, and equal rights. The reaction paper supports Brown's message that technology provides opportunities to contribute to a more just, sustainable and interconnected world.

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    Gordon Brown advocates for using modern technology and communication tools to promote a global ethic and work towards the common good. He argues that technology has transformed the world into a global village and gives people the power to organize internationally around issues like poverty and climate change. Brown references a global ethic outlined in the Declaration Toward a Global Ethic that promotes principles of non-violence, respect for life, solidarity, tolerance, and equal rights. The reaction paper supports Brown's message that technology provides opportunities to contribute to a more just, sustainable and interconnected world.

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    CHED Faculty Training for the New General Education Curriculum

    Purposive Communication-Second Generation Training

    Prof. Jocelyn Perida-Castro

    May 12, 2017

    REACTION PAPER ON GORDON BROWN’S WIRING A WEB FOR GLOBAL

    GOOD

    Submitted by:

    Hizon, Carolyne L.

    Page 1 of 4
    Gordon Brown: Wiring a Web for Global Good

    The rapid development in modern technology has revolutionized our world that has

    tremendously contributed to the progress toward an actual global community. Our digital

    world increases in speed and accuracy enabling people from various nations and cultures to

    have the opportunity to share common experiences almost instantaneously.

    Technology has transformed the one big and far world into a tiny global village. With modern

    technology, we have the power to communicate with anybody on the sides of the world. With

    modern technology, we can work for the common good contributing to a sustainable world.

    This is exactly what Gordon Brown addresses in his Tedtalk: Wiring a Web for Global Good.

    For his advocacy on poverty and climate change to name a few , he has promoted technology

    as vehicles for economic and environmental recovery. He has used communication tools like

    Twitter and YouTube as a means to communicate global issues. He has emphasized human

    interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethics.

    One of the points he raised in his video is what modern technology is capable of: the power

    of our moral sense allied to the powers of communication and our ability to organize

    internationally.

    This he believes gives us the opportunity to fundamentally change the world like in the case

    of Nelson Mandela. This man believed that the change we want to see in the world must be

    the change we want to see in ourselves. How did people know about Mandela’s life? Well, it

    is through modern communication tools. The social media, the interest, the youtube and all.

    Another one, noteworthy to be looked into is how St. Teresa of Calcutta’s love for the

    unloved spread.Her life mirrored to the world, it has overwhelmingly contributed to the

    global challenge of contributing to the creation of a truly global society.

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    Brown said that with modern technology, it has the great power of increasing a global ethic

    with the power of our ability to communicate and organize together, a truly global society,

    built on that ethic but with institution that can save that global society. And what is this

    global ethic all about? This is embodied in the Declaration Toward a Global Ethic drafted

    individually by Hans Kung, President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic. Drawn on many

    of the world’s religions, spiritual and cultural traditions, the declaration identifies the global

    rule: “What you wish done to yourself, do to others” as unconditional norm for all areas of

    life and the four principles which can be affirmed by all persons with ethical conviction,

    whether religiously grounded or not. These principles pronounce the commitment to culture

    of non-violence and respect for life, a culture of solidarity and a just economic order, a

    culture of tolerance and a life of truthfulness and a culture of equal rights and partnership

    between men and women.

    Indeed,this global ethic is very important to achieve fairness and responsibility across the

    generations.

    On the whole, the video on Wiring a Web for Global Good by Gordon Brown undoubtedly is

    a call to everyone to make use of modern technology to promote a human cause for a global

    good.

    At the end of the day, it would be good to ask ourselves what have we contributed to the

    betterment of the world with all the modern technology available to us. To quote Steve Job’s

    line, “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night,

    saying we have done something wonderful, that what matters to me.”

    REFERENCES:

    1. www.techi.com/blog2013/global-impact-4-ways-tech

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    2. study.com/academy//how-technology-affects-global

    3. https://www.google.com.ph

    4. https://www.ted.com

    5. www.huffingtonpost.com//tedtalks/gordon-brown-wiring

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