{"id":28483,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/citizenshop-new-aspen-review-is-published\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:11:13","slug":"citizenshop-new-aspen-review-is-published","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/citizenshop-new-aspen-review-is-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenshop \u2013 new Aspen.Review is published!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0release the 2nd\u00a0issue of 2019\u00a0Aspen.Review<\/a>,<\/strong> a summer edition with the\u00a0<\/strong>title Citizenshop<\/strong>.\u00a0A gripping\u00a0wordgame\u00a0of citizenship and shopping!\u00a0We are happy to share\u00a0this topic in the newest Aspen Review articles, interviews, and comments. And of\u00a0course,\u00a0we\u2019re looking forward to your feedback!<\/p>\n

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Citizenshop<\/h1>\n

The idea of citizenship has its roots in the Roman Empire. Governments these days are more often perceived as mere\u00a0service providers.\u00a0New technologies allow for the use of government marketing and communications while using segmentation methods common in advertising. As citizens, we should not grow accustomed to\u00a0being treated\u00a0as customers. Or should we?<\/p>\n

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Take Bulgaria: fast track citizenship can be acquired in just one and a half years, you need to buy government bonds for half a million euros, then double the investment the second year\u2014Ivaylo Ditchev<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read\u00a0Ivaylo Ditchev’s<\/strong>\u00a0thoughts on whether\u00a0The Marketplace of Citzenships<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0necessary consequence of modernization. Did citizens turn into customers of public services, feeling entitled to change the shop and vote with their feet if not satisfied?\u00a0Let’s buy a new citizenship or nationality if you are not satisfied with your old one anymore!<\/p>\n

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We’re very glad to reprint the\u00a0Data Dictatorship<\/a> article on the power of data in hands of authoritative regimes by Gianni Riotta\u00a0<\/strong>that appeared\u00a0in our\u00a0Italian sister-journal\u00a0Aspenia<\/a>. The governments are proving to be far more skilled and unscrupulous than the democracies in the use and manipulation of the web. The West seems to have forgotten that technology spawns\u00a0culture and politics and that it is not neutral: if the free exchange of information and the debate are distorted by fake news, maybe the data democracy turns into data dictatorship. Read more in the article<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The challenge between Politics and Technology remains crucial for geopolitical hegemony in the twenty-first century. In the West, the ideological battle raging over computers, the web, social media, AI, blockchains fake news, and the power of large corporations and central governments over data is going to end up blinding our strategies\u2014Gianni Riotta<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Czech Republic Has a Hangover<\/h2>\n

How citizenship can turn into torture describes our AYLP<\/a> alumnus\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 Posp\u00ed\u0161il<\/strong>, the co-founder of the initiative Exekutor m\u00e1 sm\u016flu.cz<\/a>.\u00a0In the interview\u00a0The Czech Republic Has a Hangover<\/a>,\u00a0he explains that every tenth Czech is chased by a debt collector. Many of the one million debtors work illegally in\u00a0the shadow economy, do not pay taxes or insurance. „You have to think about what these people will do in their old age. What will society do with so many people on the verge of poverty?“<\/em> he asks. Tom\u00e1\u0161’s\u00a0iniciative managed\u00a0to stop three thousand illegal distraints\u00a0amounting to 350 million\u00a0CZK.<\/p>\n

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I think it would be too ambitious to believe that 100% protection of some kind against cyber and information threats can be developed\u2014for that we would have to return to the pre-internet era.\u2014Petr Pavel<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Did you realize there has been quite a strong shift within NATO to acknowledge their own weaknesses exploring new areas on which the Alliance had not focused before?\u00a0There Should Be No Limit to NATO Expansion<\/a>\u00a0proclaims\u00a0Petr Pavel<\/strong>, the former chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Read more in the\u00a0promising interview.<\/p>\n

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And then turn to Russia: The Russian society has a great capacity for inventiveness, creativity and ingenuity, this is being well demonstrated in their prowess with computers, software and information technology. „The young are similar to the old when it comes to approval of Putin\u2014they\u2019re very pro-Putin. Additionally, they\u2019re supportive of the government, sometimes even more so than the older generation<\/em>,“ says\u00a0Marlene Laruelle<\/strong> in the interview Human Capital Is a Weapon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Social media, especially YouTube, serves as the main platform for expression, taste-making and production of identities\u2014Marlene Laruelle<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also look at other current topics such as\u00a0The Digital Silk Road<\/a>\u00a0by Dalibor Roh\u00e1\u010d<\/strong>,\u00a0how the Europe will look after Merkel<\/a> by Hans Kundani<\/strong>, the\u00a0CEE experience of\u00a0Living with the Euro<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Bart\u0142omiej E. Nowak<\/strong> or\u00a0Can It Happen Here?<\/a>\u00a0article continuation\u00a0from the previous issue by Aviezer Tucker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Read the whole articles at the Aspen.Review<\/a> website, download the eBook version or get a hard copy at one of our events<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read Aspen.Review now!<\/a><\/p>\n

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And the next issue? You can already be looking forward to us\u00a0Shaming the Europe<\/strong>. We’ll look at what Europe will bring to us after\u00a0the recent\u00a0elections and in the nearest future. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

And please, if you like our work, spread the word! Let’s share\u00a0some of the texts with at least one friend or on social networks.\u00a0Thank you a lot!<\/p>\n

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Jenda<\/strong> \u017d\u00e1\u010dek
\n<\/strong>Publishing Editor of\u00a0Aspen.Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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