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Outsourcing and Insourcing: Strategic thought
Scientific and Research Association for Art, Cultural Educational Programmes and Technology EPEKA
(SRA EPEKA)
Association for Culture and Education KIBLA (ACE KIBLA)
MARIBOR 2012 – European Capital of Culture 2012 Public Institute
Creation Process
Open vs. Closed
Collaboration vs. Competition
Free vs. Ours / Theirs
Copy YES vs. CC, CopyLeft or CopyRight
Public vs. Privat
Wideness vs. Deepness
Tangible vs. Non-tangible
Material vs. Virtual
Syntactic vs. Semantic
Internet 2010
2 billions users on-line
255 millions web-pages
21,4 millions new web-pages in 2010
107 trillions emails
294 billions emails daily
Facebook has doubled – 600 millions users
100 millions photos uploaded to Facebook daily, 3+ billions per month
2 billions videos watched on Youtube daily
35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
Five of the Largest Libraries
Library Millions of Books
Library of Congress 17
Russian State Library 16.5
British Library 13
Bibliothèque Nationale 12
Beijing: National Library 24
Five of the Largest University Libraries
Library Millions of Books
Harvard 15.5 million
University of Toronto 15
Yale 12.1
University Illinois (UIUC) 10
University of Chicago >10
Millions of Books in Full Text (by 2020)
The European Library 6+
Universal Digital Library - Japan 8+
China Digital Library 2+
Universal Digital Library - US-India 0
Google 20
Open Content Alliance 1
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Co.) 4
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Networking
collaboration vs. competition
local – regional – national – international – transnational / multinational
Business (and Economics)
Maximize and Grow Profits
Grow Sales
Grow GDP
Globalization
A company can buy or sell everywhere
but:It is responsible for the world’s mankind
(= human race)Profits vs. Responsibility = Ethics
Responsibility:
Social – to mankind
Environmental – to our world
Present System Grows Economic Inequality currently 0.14% of people own 80% of world assets
and The wealth is further concentrating
What Does Economic Inequality Mean?
poverty – hunger – death
1 billion (out of 7) are starving
36 million people die every year of starvation (No.1 cause of death)
6 million children under age of 5 die every year of starvation (over 80 during this presentation)
Money Needed to Stop People Dying
15 Billion $ per year
=2% of profits of world top 50 companies
Action Plan: a Paradigm Shift in Economics
Growth is NOT an increase in profit or GDP but Improvement of (global) social conditions Preserving or improving our environment
Employment
One of the biggest problems of today: rising percentages of unemployed – highest among youth children work precarious work social tensions, protests, revolutions
