Arctic: Cultural Identity, Technology, Values

• Main Author: RONCHI, ALFREDO
• Other Authors: Nord Eastern Federal University (NEFU) Yakutsk, Russian Federation, Anatoly Zhozhikov, Ronchi, Alfredo
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Nord Eastern Federal University (NEFU) Yakutsk, Russian Federation 2014
• Subjects: Arctic Regions; Information Tecnology; Information Society; Arctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11311/968033; http://www.s-vfu.ru/en/

Digital networks have vastly increased the speed at which it is possible to communicate, providing real and tangible benefits to power users. Communications, information and assets exchanges, commerce and many other activities have increased their own potentials using such networks. The rise of the Internet has triggered the development of new skills, as well as new job opportunities, new services and new enterprises, all pillars of the so-called e-economy, an economy based largely on intangible goods (which sometimes even disappear completely, as in the case of investors that have lost their capital) but not limited to them because, thanks to the recent trend termed ”Makers”, the delivery of tangible goods is now feasible. This is one of the effects of the global inter-communication in the digital era. Moreover software tools are unleashing everyday creativity no regards about citizenship, language, gender or census. This is not enough; the digital era has broken geographical barriers. In 1990 on the occasion of a conference devoted to urban mobility and pollution I wrote a paper entitled “Telecomunicando (Telecommunicate)” stressing the idea that thanks to telecommunication a large number of tasks may be performed remotely. It is not by chance that northern countries use to have the best telecommunication networks. Activities based on digital data may be performed anywhere, anytime. Bit-streams may run over the network and reach destination almost instantaneously. From an ontological point of view, we are dealing with a new class of objects. Digital information and its related technologies have the potential to make a huge impact on culture and society. Everything that can be turned into digital format may be replicated perfectly almost at zero cost and broadcasted worldwide over the network in real-time. Such a revolution may involve both content and services and a number of new professional areas. Thanks to information networks remote or severe climate areas may find out models of stable social economic ...