@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/cat.5.1.06car, author = "Carrelli, Claudio and Van Dijk, Jan and Gray, John and Majo, Joan and Pestel, Robert and Radermacher, F.J.", title = "Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society: A European Perspective", journal= "Concepts and Transformation", year = "2000", volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "43-63", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/cat.5.1.06car", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/cat.5.1.06car", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1384-6639", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "information society", keywords = "politics", keywords = "sustainability", keywords = "European way", keywords = "globalization", keywords = "social economy", keywords = "frameworks", abstract = "We examine the challenge of identifying a route towards a sustainable global Information Society: a society that adequately meets economic, social, cultural and environmental concerns of the world, with a long-term perspective. Clearly, a model of development which simply extends the current resource-intensive lifestyles of the OECD to the entire population of the world would threaten both global ecological stability and many local cultures, eventually posing a threat to social harmony in Europe. The present patterns of economic globalization are forcing ever more deregulation, increasingly short-term orientation and an ever faster rate of change, which makes sustainability increasingly hard to attain. However, European experience can make a valuable contribution to developing a global sustainable Information Society, and to the work of policy-making bodies around the world.", }