Global Citizenship and Its Impact

The project report discusses various aspects of global citizenship, including its benefits in making the world a better place, how businesses are focusing on fulfilling society's requirements, and the negative impact of AI on humans. The report also touches upon differences in laws across countries due to cultural, beliefs, and ancient customs.

REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Explaining the idea of global citizenship....................................................................................3
What is the purpose of business ? ..............................................................................................4
Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the future? ......................................................................4
Laws relating to abortion, death penalty and assisted dying.......................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Global citizenship is an idea that is loosely defined as recognizing the interconnectedness
of life, respecting the diversities in cultures around the globe. The present report is going to
discuss about the global citizenship, the purpose of conducting business, the impact of artificial
intelligence on humanity in the future and the laws relating to abortion, death penalty and
assisted dying.
MAIN BODY
Explaining the idea of global citizenship
The global citizenship concept can be referred as a thought that says that each person has
civil rights and responsibilities which comes from being a member of the globe. In simpler
words, the terms refers to the idea that proposes responsibility of an individual towards global
issues. This concept promotes humanity at the global level by advocating for the social justice,
empathising with the people suffering from different issues, respecting religion and cultures of
different nations (Dower and Williams, 2016).
The idea of global citizenship is important because it allows people to access the global
opportunities that world provides along with the responsibilities it imposes for being a citizen of
world. The opportunities are in the form of conducting business worldwide because of
globalisation, opportunities of making careers in foreign countries for the young people etc.
Another reason why it is crucial is it's the purpose of promoting humanity at the global by
making people empathise towards global issues such as poverty, life threatening diseases, mental
illness, etc. The concept also encourages peace around the world by suggesting people that each
individual needs to respect other's religion and culture.
However, there are arguments against this concept such as people believe that there is no
such thing as global citizenship. In reality, nations and national citizenship comes first.
Globalisation, an aspect of global citizenship has affected the world in negative ways such as
unhealthy competition amongst the nations in respect of trade & business, rapid depletion of
world's scarce resources etc. The other challenge that comes up is financial resources for solving
the global issues like food & hunger, inequalities, environment sustainability (Tan, 2017).

What is the purpose of business ?
Business can be defined as a commercial activity by which a person earns its living. This
commercial activity includes person's regular occupation, profession, trading of goods and
services etc.
The purpose of business for entrepreneurs is to earn profits and make their lifestyles
better. People work for earning money by which they could afford the basic necessity of life. But
in the recent times, the purpose of conducting business has shifted from solely profit
maximization to wellbeing of society as whole (Dyllick and Muff, 2016). The modern
organisation needs to shift their focus on social welfare instead of maximizing returns because it
will help the firms in focusing on global warming concerns which is leading major damage to
climatic condition and natural calamities.
Social enterprises undertake commercial activities for the purpose of improving and
enhancing the environmental and social well-being. These organizations conduct business
operations for fulfilling the social causes for which it has been formed, it supports communities
and focuses on improving the lives of the people that are somehow connected to them. Managing
support to people in need will helps in gaining attention of government, volunteers and society
which is effective for growth and aim of the firm which is not profit making but managing
welfare of society.
Corporate Social Responsibility is now of the most significant aspect of business
organizations by which they try to fulfil the requirements of society from the profits these firms
make by utilising society's resources. The aim of CSR is to guide the companies to conducts its
operations in the most ethical manner. This ethical manner involves avoiding exploitation of
human capital, leaving minimum carbon footprint on the environment and its sustainability,
serving the society with supreme quality of goods and services and to work in partnership with
local people for enhancing the living standards of the local people (Basu, 2017). CSR framework
within modern organisation will be beneficial for the modern organisation in gaining attention of
millennials which is effective of innovation management and growth of organisation.
Influence of Artificial Intelligence in the future?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the capability of computers and robots of performing the
tasks that are mainly associated with human beings with the same intellectual. There are some

activities that are designed with artificial intelligence are Machine Learning, Speech
Recognition, Planning and Problem solving (Artificial intelligence, 2019).
The impact of AI driven technologies are largely impacting the daily life of human race.
Some of the examples are smartphones in which users interacts with AI such as Google assistant,
Siri, Alexa etc. Smart cars is the perfect example of explaining AI. These electronic cars does not
need human to run it on roads only because of the AI software and applications that would
understand and react to the situations in the same manner like humans (Makridakis, 2017).
There are positive impacts of AI that is making quality of human lives better and is
expected to do so in the future. The AI when coded properly performs the human like activities
more quickly and accurately with low error rate. The robots created with AI applications would
not be affected by the dynamic and hostile environments. They would be able to preform tasks
that are risks to lives of humans.
However, the increased application of AI in the current times and in the future is going to
harm the human race and humanity. The very first and significant negative impact of AI is that it
is becoming the major reason for unemployment for the humans. AI devises and technologies are
ruling out the need of humans to perform tasks in the companies such as automated call teller
rules out the requirement of a natural person to interact with customers. This will lead to poverty
due to unemployment, making lives of human miserable in the future (Cockburn, Henderson and
Stern, 2018).
Thus, the technology have to created and mixed up human factor in such a manner that
raises the quality of people on earth rather than becoming a threat to human existence.
Laws relating to abortion, death penalty and assisted dying
Laws are the set of rules for creating a framework within which activities in a country has
to be performed by each citizens.
Each country have different laws due to their ancient customs and cultures. For example,
Abortion is legal in certain circumstance in UK under the Abortion Act 1967. The abortion is
permitted during the first 24 weeks of conceiving the child. Similarly, US and India provides the
legal framework for the abortion issue in their respective country.
The issue has been legalised in the recent times for various reasons such as unwanted
child, social stigma of having child before marriage in the countries like India that have
regressive culture (ESHRE Capri Workshop Group, 2017).

Death penalty laws in the UK has been abolished after 1998 under Human Rights Act and
Crime and Disorder Act. While Mid eastern countries has strict death penalties for the prescribed
crimes. This is because of the difference in approach and culture between the nations. Arab
countries have zero tolerance for any type of crime in the country. In fact, the death penalty is
executed with in few days of the judgement. The another reason could be political history such
parliamentary nature in country involves long hearings and legal procedure for death penalty
related crimes, while in countries like South Arab which is run by a monarch who gives instant
judgement for the crime without any hearing sessions (Davies, 2017.).
Assisted dying refers to the suicide that is assisted by other person, generally with the
help of a physician or healthcare provider. It is illegal in UK. In US, only 8 states have legalised
the assisted dying.
CONCLUSION
From the above project report, it can be concluded that global citizenship is a good
concept for making world a better place where humanity exist. The study also summarized that
business houses are focusing on fulfilling society's requirement rather than filling only their
pockets. Increased use of AI will have negative impact on humans as these technologies are
eliminating the need of human which is creating unemployment that will ultimately lead to
poverty and low living standards. Lastly, laws in the different countries varies from one another
due to its culture, beliefs and ancient customs.

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Davies, C., 2017. The strange death of moral Britain. Routledge.
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ESHRE Capri Workshop Group, 2017. Induced abortion. Human reproduction (Oxford,
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