About Us

The Read-Online.Org Team

Our motivation

Today, more than ever before, the world we live in faces a lot of challenges. More than ever before, there are social, political, economic and environmental issues among others which are creating insecurity for large parts of our world, and requiring urgent attention. Complex problems of the nature that had never been seen before are, today, tasking the available resources, capacities and capabilities of our leaders.

As the world becomes progressively more globalised, as new information and communication technologies open new opportunities and new ways to interact, the world has been turned into one global village. The possibilities afforded by round-the-clock live broadcast of news on events round the world have meant that actions taken on both domestic and world issues and their impacts are now available and can be monitored real-time by anyone who takes any interest in them.

Political leaders, at local, regional, national and international levels are tasked with the functions of making policies, monitoring them and ensuring that we all have the benefits resulting from these policies. Most of these leaders perform their functions efficiently and judiciously and to the best of their abilities. Yet, serving the direct interest of those who elected them might not necessarily mean serving the interest of the global village. For example, embarking on large deforestation in order to create industrial centres might bring good reward to a local area. Its elected leader might actively pursue this goal. The environmental impact of such actions would no doubt be felt beyond the borders of the local area.

Acting locally in the overall interest of the global village is important. Acting globally in the interest of the people at the local and grass-root levels is important. Being able to find the balance between these objectives, often tasks the political capital of most of our elected leaders.

Recent events have shown the difficulties faced by leaders who attempt to please their local or national electors, while at the same time, trying to please a world with a diverse range of demands.

In the current difficult financial and economic climate in most parts of the Western world, how does a leader balance being a local hero with being a world player at the same time especially when the interest of both do differ? In the current political climate around the world, how does a leader rise above national sentiments to engage in transparently honest peace-making efforts? On the issue of the common good for the global village, how does a leader persuade his constituency that making sacrifices is not only good for the region, but also for the world as a whole?

Read-Online.Org is a think-tank. The group is built on the concept of pooling together experts in order to research and discuss issues of importance to our world. We are an interactive forum that challenges you to contribute your part to the world debate, not just as a member of a local or national constituency, but as an inhabitant of the global village.

Our posts

Read-Online.Org posts are presented by contributors who have clear understanding of the issues on which their contributions are based, and who wish to open up a debate on their points of views. Every contribution received is reviewed by Read-Online.Org editors in order to help the author achieve the maximum impact from the contributions, and also to ensure that these comply with our editorial policy.

Read-Online.Org website acts as a reference point and resource centre for discussions which you will find in various other blogs. URLs of these discussions are “shared” and form the basis for discussion across the blogosphere.

We invite you to join us in discussing very actively, issues of great importance to our world. We invite you to share the links on Read-Online.Org and to be a part of the community.