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Date: 2024-07-17 Page is: DBtxt001.php L0300-W

ISSUES ... WWW
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Listing WWW of the ISSUES that impact world affairs and quality of life

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WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) This is a UN agency, and focal point for discussion and regulation related to intellectual property. While intellectual deserves a certain degree of protection, there also needs to be regulation that ensures that there is fairness in its application, and that legal rights do not dominate over natural rights. The protection of corporate rights to intellectual property should be balanced with the rights of natural discover by indigenous peoples who do not have access and understanding of the IP regime that has been established.

War War is almost always a result of failure, and frequently aggravates the failure. The relief and development sector has done a lot of work over the past decades helping to make peace after war and violence has wreaked havoc in an area. Though the relief efforts are valuable, the favorable impact of relief is tiny compared to the aggregate damage and destruction caused by war. War is almost always a losing proposition, and should almost always be avoided. War is a result of failure ... and usually acerbates bad situations. What is needed is the information and action so that war does not happen ... not conflict resolution in the sense of stopping ware and violence, but conflict resolution in the sense of avoiding the level of conflict that produces war and violence.

Water Water is essential to life, and increasingly a cause of conflict. Water is a critical component of life, and there is a need to have the sort of infrastructure that makes access to water easy and efficient. But this investment has only been done in rich countries ... poor countries do not have the needed infrastructure and do not have adequate supplies of water. In many places water is wasted ... on other places there is no water to use, let alone waste. Like so many other things in the RDS, water is a subject of dialog and discussion, but there is a shortage of practical investment. Progress towards better water supplies is essential, and needs to be done community by community to get a reasonably improvement soon, especially where there are serious health problems associated with water supply. A lot of improvement can be done with small scale works, but large populations will need major civil works in order for the supply improvement to be to scale and efficient.

Water pollution Water pollution is a serious by-product of modern agriculture and industry. Water pollution was disastrous in Europe, the USA and everywhere there was industrial development until the 1950s when serious clean-up started. Modern industrial organizations need not be great polluters, but will be unless there is legislation, regulation and enforcement to operate to high water effluent standards. There is a lack of community information about water pollution and polluters, and no universal systems that can hold polluters accountable. The technology to operate in a pollution free manner is available, but it has costs ... but usually smaller than the societal cost of pollution.

Wealth creation Wealth creation has become a big driver of the rich economies, but is missing from poor economies. Wealth creation in poor economies is concentrated into a small local elite and/or is diverted to the internationally powerful. This is not an easy thing to change, but poverty does not get reduced when wealth creation is almost exclusively benefiting the already rich and the powerful. Wealth creation needs to be the foundation for socio-economic progress, but the allocation of wealth between the various stakeholders should be fair and equitable. Wealth creation should be subject to value chain analysis in order to see where the wealth creation is getting allocated, and steps taken to ensure that the value is not merely concentrated with the rich and powerful.

Welfare Welfare is sometimes needed, but it is not a good economic system for all. Essentially the modern relief and development sector is a welfare sector, with all the problems that come from a welfare approach to economics. In this model, more and more resources are needed where failure if the greatest, and the process of funding failure is never ending. Some situations justify welfare, but not many. Rather, effort should be diverted to helping to provide and fund opportunity, and then to have management information and accountability so that the wealth created from hard work and enterprise can be reasonably shared among all the stakeholders. With a wealth creating enterprise system, and an ethical framework, it is possible to fund local welfare without having to resort to international humanitarian relief or welfare.

Wildlife Wildlife is a wonderful gift, but increasingly endangered. The protection of wildlife by an international community of well-wishers is a start, but it cannot succeed without a lot of local interest and support. Generally speaking, wildlife is losing, though perhaps more slowly than at some times in the past. Wildlife in the context of history and habitat and wildlife tourism can become a profit center rather than a cost center in the overall relief and development scheme of things. There are ways in which wildlife and the environment can be brought into the socio-economic value equations to that everyone wins. Arguably, this is the best way.

Wisdom Wisdom is valuable, but in rather short supply Wisdom is not highly regarded, especially if it is contained in the body and brain of someone old and perhaps uneducated. Many people learn a lot, but few use what they learn to create wisdom. Wisdom is rare, but very valuable. It is the ultimate result of data ... that converts to information ... that becomes knowledge ... and ultimately wisdom. Decisions made with wisdom are perhaps the ultimate tool for the achievement of socio-economic development success.

Women's rights Women's rights should be little more than the complete portfolio of human rights, with no limits based on gender. Women have been marginalized in all sorts of ways by society, and the many institutions of society, including religious organizations. Women's role in society has become broader in the past few decades, but some of the progress is more perspective than tangible. Women's rights need to be integrated into the mainstream of society with no limit based on gender, and yet also with respect and consideration for the very central role that women do play in procreation and the role they play in forming future generations.

Workers' rights Workers' rights played a big role in making the north rich and economically and politically stable. Workers' rights are not getting a lot of attention from the relief and development sector actors, even though it should be clear that almost all wealth creation is built with worker involvement. The conditions of workers in many poor developing countries is disgraceful, yet it is not an issue ... in fact conditions are so bad in a lot of places that active efforts go on to keep the problems out of sight and out of the media. Community level management information can help to make worker conditions more visible, and for employers to be held to account. The goal is to have a universal reasonable standard of worker conditions ... and a workplace where competition does not drive standards down, but ensures that standards are universally acceptable.

Workshops (see also conferences and seminars) Workshops can help communication and facilities learning ... but it is not bound to happen. Workshops are very common in the relief and development community ... they provide a very tangible way of demonstrating that something was done. It is less easy to demonstrate that the costs of the workshop were low relative to the value of the workshop ... in fact to demonstrate that the workshop had any value at all.



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