The issue of outsorcing is based in economics. Companies are attempting to reduce their costs while producing a consistently good product or service. More interesting to me, is the situation surrounding IT companies hiring foreign citizens to work in the United States. The companies believe that there are more jobs than there are American workers. This very well may be. Many countries are educating their students in a more rigorous and focused manner than Universities in the United States. This is leading to a growing workforce of qualified and skilled labor.
I believe that hiring more foriegn work is a good thing. It is ensuring that the workforce is highly skilled. In turn, the US education system will have to compete. This will improve the quality of our education system.
I am not worried about my future job being outsourced. I hope to work as a studio artist. There is no real way I could hire people in foreign countries to create my paintings and call them my own.

The issue of the disposal of e-waste is an important topic to our modern society. Many people do not think of the environmental and sociological consequences of the growing amount of discarded electronic products. Today, there are huge dumps in developing nations, that have poisoned the water supply, tainted the soil, and that have caused enormous health problems.
The United States has strict regulations regarding the disposal of electronic products. However, there is little regulation of selling the waste to other nations. This leads to companies trying to turn a profit and eventually sending the items to places where they are dismantled without proper safety practices.
I am familiar with ewaste, as I am a recycler at USF. We pick up discarded computers, batteries, telephones, toner cartridges, etc. We had a meeting discussing the problem of ewaste exportation. Our university, does make an effort to make sure that the electronic waste it produces is disposed of properly. I am happy that I am doing my part.

ICANN is a non profit organization that is in charge of assigning domain names to different websites around the world. ICANN is run out of California in the United States. There is ongoing controversy surrounding the effects of having the internet regulated by a primarily North American organization.
Many groups and countries are pushing for the denationalization of ICANN and passing its duties off to the ITU (the International telecommunications union). This is a controversial topic. Many people believe that the way the internet works right now is perfectly fine. They also believe that splintering the duties of ICANN into the control of different countries or organizations could fragment the structure of the Internet itself. Countries could use internet issues as bargaining chips in unrelated diplomatic matters.
On the other hand, supporters of the dismantling of ICANN believe that it is time for non US groups to have control over their own web content and format. They believe that they are to a point to where they have the technical know how to operate and regulate the Internet.

ICANN is a non profit organization that is in charge of assigning domain names to different websites around the world. ICANN is run out of California in the United States. There is ongoing controversy surrounding the effects of having the internet regulated by a primarily North American organization.
Many groups and countries are pushing for the denationalization of ICANN and passing its duties off to the ITU (the International telecommunications union). This is a controversial topic. Many people believe that the way the internet works right now is perfectly fine. They also believe that splintering the duties of ICANN into the control of different countries or organizations could fragment the structure of the Internet itself. Countries could use internet issues as bargaining chips in unrelated diplomatic matters.
On the other hand, supporters of the dismantling of ICANN believe that it is time for non US groups to have control over their own web content and format. They believe that they are to a point to where they have the technical know how to operate and regulate the Internet.

The current privacy issues affecting our personal information are interesting and complex. The NSA has bypassed laws set up to ensure that our right to privacy is not violated without justification. I find this threatening and scary.
Our society is now faced with a new threat to freedom. The new threat is not terrorism but our own government and its ever increasing power. We are now in a forced position of compliance with these unconstitutional actions.
As citizens of this nation, we must take a step back and compare the decrease in privacy to the increase in national security. Is the diminishing of personal privacy justified to prevent further violence? Is there a compromise? Why should law abiding citizens be treated as suspects? There may not be answers to these questions.
One thing is certain. Life in America has and will continue to change, and I do not like the direction in which we are heading.