Dear Patriotic Global Citizens and Friends of Ethiopia:
It is interesting that the season and the time is forcing the UN Secretary General to address Cyber hate and intolerance at its core.
It is becoming clear that the most critical challenge of good governance across the world is Intolerance and the Cyberhate networks that has flourished since 1980s the advent of public Internet access.
As the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is debating about using the Internet for Gospel (Good News) Communication, the Church Service, Confessions, donations to the poor and reaching the most vulnerable youth with its presence in the Cyber world, the Intolerance and Cyber hate groups have already flourished there capturing young brains in their own homes to their malicious criminal propaganda.
When advocates of Good Governance, Good News and the Synagogue, Churches and Mosques are debating whether, how and when will they ever have a presence in the Cyber world, the enemy of good, that is intolerance and Cyber hate groups are flourishing and even taking over some communities and civilizations.
I believe it is time to assert Good News and Good Governance in the Cyber and real world of young minds and recreation centers. As the summer is upon us, the School system is discharging the children into unsuspecting and unprepared parents and the community about the savvy and well connected youth via Face-book, Twitter, my-space, you tube and the general Internet cyber world, parents will have to catch up and the worship community need to be ahead of the game by engaging the youth in their own world.
Here the Secretary General is taking a bold step and I believe the Pope, Archbishops, Imams, Sheiks, Rabbi and old the do good progressives should spend time with the youth and the Cyber world.
Believe it or not the future world is going to be cyber dominated. The recent Iranian Election Fall out is being organized by Cyber world communication, and no one should ignore it.
Voice of the Patriots, (Hager Fiker Radio) at www.wmet1160am.com/hagerfikerradio has began the debate whether churches and religious institutions should or should not have a cyber presence and make their services including the Good News and Gospel teaching, confessions, and counseling to youths and young people available on the net.
Last week the conservative wing led by two brilliant ladies of Ethiopian Orhtodox Church have put forward why the interview of Archbishop Samuel of Addis to NewAdmis journalist of reaching the youth via the Cyber world was not appropriate to a very classical and conservative Orthodox Civilization.
We are taking the conversation forward this week by sharing the news from the UN and Secretary General fGoorward and see how the public reacts to this new phenomenon of cyber communication and social networking tools availble for forces of Good Governance, Good News and Cultural diversities.
It is time to address the future of our civilization, young people and share in their cyber world, which new technologies have exposed them in school.
Here is the message from Banki Moon and I look forward to see your alternative ideas and suggestions on this topic.
Dr B
EVERYONE MUST HELP ELIMINATE CYBER HATRED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL
New York, Jun 16 2009 2:10PM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that parents, the Internet industry and policy makers all have a role to play in eliminating hate speech from cyberspace.
“Some of the newest technologies are being used to peddle some of the oldest fears,” Mr. Ban <"http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=3927">said at a seminar in New York entitled “Cyberhate” – the latest in an ongoing series on combating intolerance, organized by the UN Department of Public Information (DPI).
“We have seen it time and again,” he said, “targeting innocents because of their faith, their race, their ethnicity, their sexual orientation.”
The Secretary-General said everyone has a role to play in eliminating cyber hate.
Parents have a responsibility to teach their children to safely surf the net, he said.
The Internet industry can help ensure that hate speech does not proliferate online, and policy makers must “take a hard look at this problem and work to safeguard people while balancing basic freedoms and human rights.”
Among the other speakers scheduled for the full-day gathering were Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information; Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer, News Corporation and MySpace; and Marta Santos Pais, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children.
The UN began the “Unlearning Intolerance” series in 2004 with discussions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and has continued the programme with lectures and seminars since then.
Jun 16 2009 2:10PM
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