The slides tell how technology and politics complement and contradict each other, as well as how technology is used as a tool to serve particular political interest. The slides also show how technology can be perceived in a different context of a country's culture and priority.

1. Politics and
Technology
Jay Ilagan - 11
Mario Rance -18
Bernadette Sueno - 23
TM281 F6-9PM GAI
UP Technology Management Center

2. John Street
Political Scientist
Professor, University of East Anglia, England
Macmillan Publishers Limited
1992

3. Technology and Politics Definition
Technology and Politics
Technology and Culture

4. Technology is designed with a
purpose of solving problems; it
has to meet human needs and
wants.

5. The row of trees
in the old
American
Embassy in
London is used to
break up student
protests
demonstrations

6. Cutteslowe Walls
in Oxford. It is a 2-
meter high wall
with lethal spikes
to enforce political
discrimination from
private
homeowners and
slum-dwellers

7. 1930s
Government offices
in Quezon City.

8. Technology refers to the way in
which the parts are organized,
through the application of
knowledge, to realise their
particular purpose.

10. Technology includes the
structures which enable it to
operate within the society.

11. ● Road infrastructures
● Road and driving policies
● Traffic regulations

12. Politics are activities
associated with the
governance of a country or
other area. This is a
particular set of political
belief or principles.

13. Technology, in a
national set-up, is a
long-term
investment.

14. Government can
help or kill your
technology.

15. How Technology and
Politics intertwined? 1960s - 1974
Alternative Press or
underground press
2007 - present

16. Broad Technology Definitions
- The organization of a hospital or an international trade system is a
social technology, as the automobile or a numerically controlled tool
is a machine technology. An intellectual technology is the substitution
of algorithms for intuitive judgements. (Bell, 1973)
- The application of scientific and other knowledge to practical tasks by
ordered systems that involve people and organizations, living things
and machines. (Pacey, 1983)

17. Politics and Technology Relations
Technology discloses man’s
mode of dealing with nature,
the process of production by
which he sustains his life. And
thereby also lays bare the
mode of formation of his
social relations and the
mental conceptions that flow
from them.
(Rosenberg, 1981)
Technology is a human
activity. Far from being
apolitical, the technology that
gets developed is a direct
result of political choices that
could be made differently.
(Goldhaber, 1986)

18. Social and Political Impact of the Phases of the
Industrial Revolution:
● Anarchism, Capitalism, Communism &
Socialism (First Phase)
● Labor Unions, Monopoly, Pension, Tariff
was introduced as so were strikes
(Second Phase)
● Distributed Capitalism,
Continentalization, From Geopolitics to
Biosphere Politics (Third Phase)
● The fourth is evolving at an exponential,
rather than a linear pace. Moreover, it is
disrupting almost every industry in every
country. And the breadth and depth of
these changes herald the transformation
of entire systems of production,
management, and governance.

19. Technology Impacts on Politics
Technology as a tool for
political actors…
i.e. , Ex-US President Barrack
Obama victory in US 2008
(web-based campaign) &
2012 Presidential election
using data analytics.
Technology as a political
topic and campaign platform.
i.e., Trump blocking of
acquisition of tech infra giant
Qualcomm by Broadcomm
citing national security.
Technology as a tool for the
public.
I.e., the role of social media
platforms in political uprising
like the Arab Spring and
Occupy Wallstreet in NY
both in 2011.

20. Technology Impacts on Politics
The development of new
technologies creates new
possibilities, it enables people to
dream new dreams or develop
new fears. (George Orwell, 1984)
New technology also makes
possible new form of political
expressions.

21. Personal computers and the speed of the
optic cable in the transfer of information
has marked the modern revolution and
almost removed the limitations of time and
space. (Thomas L. Friedman)
(Source - Social Media - The New Power of
Political Influence, Center for European
Studies)
Internet traffic in Egypt. Facebook usage in Egypt and Tunisia during Arab Spring.

22. Thoughts in upcoming 2022 Election using
technology-based approach methodologies.

23. Technology and
Culture

24. Culture cannot be separated
from Technology.

27. People care about technology,
about how it looks, and what it
means to them. We invest
[technology] with all kinds of
meaning and symbolism; it
can be made to evoke a whole
range of emotions.

31. Technology and its political
importance also depends upon
the way it is integrated into
the understanding individuals
and groups have of
themselves and the world
they inhabit.

32. Sources:
https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/motoring/from-a-bugatti-to-lamborghinis-the-supercars-of-the-uae-police-in-
pictures-1.738842#10
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/11/03/Taxi-Dubai-cab-fleet-gets-Lamborghini-Ferrari-boost.html

33. Andrew O. Urevbu
Professor of educational psychology and curriculum analysis at the University of Benin (Nigeria)
“What then is the relationship between culture
and technology? The culture of a society
determines the nature (form and content) of
technological development and the evolution
of technological culture. Hence technology is
a cultural enterprise that exists in varying
degrees in all societies.

34. Societies use [technological]
innovation to solve problems
Source: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/culture/how-culture-determines-technological-development
● Kenya was to become one of the world leaders in mobile
payments because of limited access to debit cards and
even bank accounts
● An ecosystem of start-ups focused on originality has been
created in Israel that many other nations have been
unable to replicate.
● More and more start-ups developed in Silicon Valley
aimed at “replacing mums” because of the population
profile

35. Technology is invested with
meaning and expectations. Its
effect on the way we live is
partly determined by the
images, ideas, and practices
which are incorporated in it.

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