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Part II: Society, Information Technology, and the Global University
Chapter 9: The Global University and the Network Society
The concept of the network society gained critical importance at the end of the twentieth century, becoming central to information society theory. For Manuel Castells, network logic is a defining feature of the information technology paradigm, alongside properties like information, pervasiveness, flexibility, and convergence.
Castells defines this shift: "As an historical trend, dominant functions and processes in the Information Age are increasingly organized around networks... Networks constitute the new social morphology of our societies". This logic fundamentally modifies operations in processes of production, experience, power, and culture. The network society is thus the definitive result of informationalism, a new technological paradigm.
The Global University must operate within and reflect this morphology. The World University and School (WUaS), by developing approximately 200 online, MIT OCW-centric, world-class wiki universities, embodies this networking logic at an extreme scale. Its mission—to offer these universities not only in all 200 countries' main languages but in virtually all 7,159 known living languages and beyond, potentially supported by initiatives like a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program—demonstrates the university’s capacity to fully adopt the planetary, networked structure of the Information Age.
World University and School, and The Global University
The transition to the Information Society compels us to focus on the key institution driving and reflecting this change: The Global University. We must begin by addressing its foundational identity: What is the global university, broadly conceived, and how does it fulfill its role as an active leader in driving innovation, guiding social discourse, and promoting social equity?
To fully understand this modern form, we must investigate its origins. This requires tracing its history—how it developed, who were its chief creators, and what has been its process of diffusion into the economy and society? Ultimately, this chapter seeks to explain the most critical questions in this evolution: What has been its unique geography, and how and why did The Global University take its current shape?
A global university, broadly conceived, is a higher education institution that operates on an international scale, transcending national borders in its mission, operations, and impact. Unlike traditional universities that are primarily rooted in a single geographic location, a global university's value is derived from its ability to serve a worldwide community and address global challenges. This concept can manifest in several ways:
Global Presence: The university has a physical presence with campuses or research centers in multiple countries, like a global network university.
Transnational Market: It operates within a globalized marketplace for students, faculty, and knowledge, drawing talent and research from around the world.
Relational Focus: It prioritizes authentic relationships and collaborations with other institutions and stakeholders globally to create unique and compelling value.
Global Mission: The curriculum and research focus on solving complex global issues, such as climate change, sustainability, and public health, preparing students to be global citizens.
World University and School
World University and School (WUaS) fits this concept by embracing a decentralized and free-to-students’ model, aiming to provide accredited online degrees to people in all countries. Its mission is to offer free education and training through a global, digital, and open platform. Instead of physical campuses, it leverages open-source educational resources, such as those from MIT's OpenCourseWare and Wikipedia, to create an accessible learning environment for underserved communities worldwide.
World University and School as a Global University
The MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (WUaS) emerged in the context of the Information Society, tracing its origin to a "Society and Information Technology" course I, Scott GK MacLeod, taught around 2007. This course was conducted on Harvard University's Berkman Island within the 3D virtual world of Second Life (with initial references at: http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/17175578/FrontPage).
WUaS was founded upon two key open resources: the roughly seven languages of CC-BY-NC-SA licensed MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) at the time (around 2007), and the collaboratively built, open-licensed Wikipedia (which then had about 342 active language communities). Crucially, the school also emerged from a Quaker leading or calling—an unprogrammed, friendly spiritual motivation to engage these open resources for global education. The vision for WUaS was shared early on, notably in a talk I gave in the spring of 2007 to Quaker friends at the main Carnegie Library in Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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#ToddSchaeferCEOGaiaGlobal: I found the Malawi mobile clinics of https://www.gaiaglobalhealth.
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Cheng & Moira,
Greetings, and further, I both blogged about some of our networking, in the 3rd item, - https://scott-macleod.
How best to explore growing China World University and School - https://wiki.
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How best could #WUaSCorp #WUaSEducationalServicesStores #WUaSAcademicPress @WUaSPress - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (see #StateOfCA #WUaSTaxID #) LIST on #NASDAQ w @johnrchurch Previously CTO at Jet.AI (NASDAQ JTAI.))?
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@johnrchurch
Hack for Social Impact is back!
Last year's hackathon produced solutions that went on to YC and
@UN
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Nov 8-9 in SF - build something that matters!
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#ToddSchaeferCEOGaiaGlobal: I found the Malawi mobile clinics of https://www.gaiaglobalhealth. org/ per CEO Todd Schaefer's very relevant for World University and School's future development of Malawi World Univ & Sch, emerging from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Nation_States - and Malawi WUaS Medical School potentially with MD professors of surgery / all ~24 sub-specialities in medicine, potentially brainstorming as Toyota Humanoid Robots' THR3s and even for free WUaS Medical Schools in Malawi in the back of Toyota Ambulance Vans or large buses (for surgery for example) and even in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForMedicine ... I also found networking about World University and School like Wikipedia in 342 languages with MIT OCW in 7 languages and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program
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Cheng & Moira,
Greetings, and further, I both blogged about some of our networking, in the 3rd item, - https://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2025/11/bingdi-lotuses.html -
How best to explore growing China World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/China and the China Law School at WUaS etc - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS - and in Traditional Chinese - https://opencw.aprende. org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/ from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) planned in the Mandarin language ... (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Languages)? And how to grow China World Univ & Sch for free online WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / sim, AA/AS, and Master's degrees - at scale and online from homes in China & in a #VirtualChina in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics + and see again - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306? ~
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Hack for Social Impact 2025 SF feedback
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Thanks, here's some related feedback I shared on the Hack for Social Impact 2025 feedback survey -
I appreciated the partner organizations' clear social impact focus ...and I found the Malawi mobile clinics of https://www.gaiaglobalhealth.org/ per CEO Todd Schaefer's very relevant for World University and School's future development of Malawi World Univ & Sch, emerging from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and Malawi WUaS Medical School potentially with MD professors of surgery / all ~24 sub-specialities in medicine, potentially brainstorming as Toyota Humanoid Robots' THR3s and even for free WUaS Medical Schools in Malawi in the back of Toyota Ambulance Vans or large buses (for surgery for example) and even in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForMedicine ... I also found networking about World University and School like Wikipedia in 342 languages with MIT OCW in 7 languages and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program with many people and organizations a big highlight
An email from Marzieh Nabi via Stanford Law CodeX, and it executive director Roland Vogl
501 c 3 non-profit World University and School WUaS, like Wikipedia in ~342 languages with MIT OCW in ~7 languages, and planning to offer free online degrees in all 200 countries and in their main / official languages, and wiki schools in all 7159 living languages for people-to-people free universal education, and from there to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet not only to facilitate universal free education, but also even to end poverty worldwide by distributing Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily to most of these from - https://minepi.com/sgkmac (with Pi cryptocurrency / WUaS partnering email), and see too https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university (in daily blog) and http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.
Thanks, Scott GK MacLeod
Some related social media posts
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#MoiraFeng & #ChengShen #HackForSocialImpact2025 SF Glad to be in communication! Will #LightMatterChips -
Hi #MoiraFeng & #ChengShen #HackForSocialImpact2025 SFGlad to be in communication! Will #LightMatterChips - https://news.mit.edu/2024/startup-lightmatter-accelerates-progress-toward-light-speed-computing-0301 help pot. w #RealRealTime #MusicMaking, say betw say #XiAnChina in #MandarinWUaS, #SFBayArea & #Scotland in #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicMaking?
Hi #MoiraFeng & #ChengShen #HackForSocialImpact2025 SF
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Glad to be in communication! Will #LightMatterChips - https://t.co/WZ5ysEB1eO help pot. w #RealRealTime #MusicMaking, say betw say #XiAnChina in #MandarinWUaS, #SFBayArea & #Scotland in #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicMaking?
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check out the iterating MIT OCW courses eventually for credit at WUaS for free degrees in Chinese too with - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/ from https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ )
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Great to overlap @ #HackForSocialImpact2025 SF: How best could #WUaSCorp #WUaSEducationalServicesStores #WUaSAcademicPress @WUaSPress - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (see #StateOfCA #WUaSTaxID #) LIST on #NASDAQ w @johnrchurch Previously CTO at Jet.AI (NASDAQ JTAI.))?
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A WUaS Business AA / AS degree to come ...
- Associate in Science in Business Administration and Management, General: This program offers a comprehensive overview of business functions including management, human resources, and accounting.
- Associate in Science in Marketing: This program focuses on marketing principles with courses in professional selling, advertising, and social media marketing.
- Associate in Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: This program is designed to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and is suitable for students interested in starting their own businesses or working in new ventures.
- Management and Leadership: While not a degree, this program focuses on supervisory and management skills, including human relations, leadership, and communication. It can lead to career advancement or the ability to operate one's own business.
- Transferability: Most credit courses are transferable to four-year colleges and universities.
- Flexibility: Some Associate Degrees for Transfer (AD-Ts) are available online.
- Curriculum: The programs provide students with a broad understanding of business concepts, leadership, and management.
- Visit the CCSF Business Department website for more detailed information and to view a full list of courses.
- Review the degree requirements and curriculum for each program to see which one best aligns with your career goals.
- Check with an academic counselor to plan your course of study and ensure all credits will transfer to your desired university
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