Challanges in the global information society

The paper of Pekka Himanen "Challenges to the Global Information Society" talks about the new trends on information society. By considering the scenario from a global point of view, he first considers 4 groups of countries, represented by America, Europe, Asia and the poor developing countries. By briefly analyzing the economical implications of the current social system, he tries to explain how it would be possible to avoid the fall of welfare state.
in a second part of his paper, Himanen points out the values that should be considered when connecting the welfare state and information society. Among all the 10 points, space is given to freedom, creativity and meaningfulness.
He then highlights the key points of social developement and gives 4 concepts that should constitute the basics:
1. A creative economy
2. A creative welfare society
3. Humanly meaningful development
4. A global culture
The paper, which gives practical advices on how new laws should help the information society reach well-being, gives a strong importance to re-thinking our rules creatively and with by considering sustainibility.
I personally enjoyed the broad view of the paper, although it seemed to be that in certain points it could have focused a bit more and gone a bit more into details