Global Citizen First???? What's wrong with this?

I have just finished listening to the opening session of the ISTE 2010 keynote address by Jean-François Rischard. He is the former vice president of the World Bank. You can get some other background information about him at this URL: http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/program/keynotes.php#opening. You can also Google him to find out more information.

The title of the address was Global Problem-Solving and the Critical Role of Educators and Technology for Education. I was deeply disturbed by this address for a number of reasons, but one which really irked me was his call for us to become Global Citizens first so that we can address some 20 crises that he identified, including global warming, depletion of fisheries, economic collapse, etc. His proposal for solving these issues is to create committees that he calls Global Issue Networks. Each GIN would be composed of experts from around the world who would come up with solutions to these "global problems." These solutions would be published and nations would be rated based on whether or not they cooperated and submitted to the dictates of these GIN committees. Nations who did not submit to these rules would receive a black rating and other nations might decide to punish them in some way like taxing imports or in some way (ambiguously) shame them into compliance.

Now what does all this have to do with technology in the classroom? Technology does give us the power to collaborate with people from all corners of the world. In fact, I think it is great that we can use a student email program like ePals that facilitates our students getting to know students from other parts of the world and even collaborate on projects. Skype is another tool that makes this a possibility. However, what Jean-François Rischard is saying is that we must indoctrinate our students with the mindset that they are global citizens first. What was shocking to me was that most of the people in the auditorium didn't seem to be outraged by what this guy was saying. In subsequent days I will outline what I think is wrong and dangerous about this kind of thinking, but I would like to know what other people think about this? Are we as Americans citizens to become Global Citizens first? Should our loyalties be to these panels of experts called Global Issue Networks?