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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Nigeria’s Chance of Catching Up With The Globalised Society is Being Hampered By The Persistent Strikes In The Country.

AS nations of the world continue to strive to stabilize their economies, the effect of industrial action of any kind negates the aim of the evolving Information Society (IS).

Though IS may mean different things to different people, the generic understanding connotes that it is a society in which all citizens of the world are recognized as human with access to use of information resources for sustainable, economic and social development. This is especially so, now the world has been reduced to a global village through deployment of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Like the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, who is the chief host of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), noted recently, though technologies through ICT could bring human beings together, to share veritable information to better their lives, it would not bring food on our tables, but humans could.

Governance should, therefore, encourage good living both economically and socially of their citizens to bear on decisions and actions taken by leaders of the world culminating into good governance and transparency.

This brings to mind the issue of industrial actions in a third world country like Nigeria at this time in point.

Strike as it is also known is defined as a period of time when a group of workers deliberately stop working because of a disagreement about pay, working conditions, according to the new edition of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

Strike in Nigeria dates back to the pre-independence era when Nigerian workers led by Pa Michael Imodu, went on strike to protest poor treatment by the then colonial masters. This has since become a frequent occurrence especially in this dispensation.

The impact of strikes to a third world nation like Nigeria, would not only devalue her economic system, but widen the digital divide which Information Society attempts to bridge by encouraging ICT deployment and recognition of equal rights as enshrined in almost every constitution of most nations in the world today and Human Rights Declaration of the United Nations.

To some industry analysts, strike does not just occur, it takes literarily poor leadership of governments in military and civilian dictatorships settings to occur.

This is because, dictators are known to always have their way no matter whose goose is gored. This was one of the reasons why the United Nations encouraged democratic governments all over the world.

posted by Arch Bishop, Dr J. O Faola @ 12:59 PM

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