... ……………………………………… 9 1.4 Negative effects of IT ……………………………………… 10 - 13 1.5 Positive effects of IT ………………………………………. 14 - 17 1.6 Conclusion ………………………………………. 18 - 19 1.7 References ………………………………………. 20 - 22 1.0 Abstract The main goal of this document is to examine the IT (Information Technology) revolution and the concept of globalization as they effect developing countries. Globalization as one of the reasons for possible widening of the gap between the poor and the rich nations was examined and the emerging concept of "digital slavery" was carefully evaluated. The wide gap in availability and use of ITs across the world and the influences ITs exert on globalization at the expense of developing countries were carefully examined and suggestions and necessary policies were offered for developing countries to leap-frog the industrialization stage and transform their economies into high value-added information economies that can compete with the advanced countries on the global market. This is why it is important for Africa, in general, in particular, to...
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...however I truly learned a lot. With an international business it has various key learning concepts including entry to new markets, trade and foreign direct investments, politics, economics and environmental variables of culture. Each of these concepts carries a different definition as well as the same intent. Globalization by definition means a “trend toward greater economic, cultural, political, and technological independence among national institutions and economies.” (p 7) Within globalization it is very important that the particular company that plans to expand beyond the borders of their home office must understand that going global is not just looking at the global aspext and not taking the time to properly invest money, time, and strategy. For example when Apple began to go global they took the time that was necessary to properly strategize on how to get their product from beyond the four walls of the Apple brand. Globalization has good parts as well as bad parts. The good part about globalization is that the particular brand that is going global has the potential of reaching more than just one particular group. However on the reverse side of globalization when taking your company to the next level especially when going global you run the risk of having to move your production from for example “America” to a place like “China”. International trade is something that is very important in international...
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...Globalization Essay Globalization is a concept that in theory serves to break down borders, creating a more unified economic and social community. It is a not a new concept, and has been in the works since at least the latter part of the 20th century. It is debatable as to whether everyone truly benefits from its implementation, however there are undeniable positive outcomes from a global community. There are many factors that have helped contribute to globalization, including education, profit seeking, tech advances, and trade, however there are also many barriers stopping it from realizing its full potential like religion, lack of technology, poor education or educational barriers, demographics and inequalities. Globalization has many implications for many different people, and ultimately affects everyone differently, whether it be positive or negative. As we get nearer to its full realization, the future of the world will be very different for many people, but the question is what will this mean for those people and what will the world look like? The world is certainly not fully globalized, but many nations are significantly closer to it than others. Some have zero global influence or are not at all globally influenced. In order to reach full globalization, it would mean for almost every nation to be participants, and reach its full potential. So what would cause a nation, or an individual to seek this outcome? There are several factors that play a role. The first...
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...YourFirstName YourLastName Instructor's Name Course Title 29 April 2013 €œ5 Broken Cameras" Guy Davidi (2011)5 Broken Cameras INTRODUCTION 5 Broken Cameras is a documentary film that premiered in the year 2011. Co-directed by a Palestine Emad Burnat and an Israeli Guy Davidi, the movie generally explains the happenings of the protests of a certain Westbank village which was directly affected by the Israeli Westbank barrier. This documentary was shot by a single person, Emat Burnat. Emat Burnat, a farmer, had bought his very first camera in the year 2005 in order to record the birth of his fourth born son Gibreel (Guy Davidi 2011). However, in 2009, Guy Davidi joined Burnat and they both began co-creating the documentary film. The plot of the movie revolves around the violent destruction of Mr Burnat’s five cameras and 5 years of extreme village tumult that a family faced. In 2009, Mr Burnat was approached by Greenhouse, a film development, with the sole aim of producing a documentary film. However, the project would only involve non violent movements as opposed to screening the whole truth. This made the deal go sour as an agreement between the two could not be reached. Burnat then later on in the year approached Davidi with whom they struck a deal. Davidi decided that Burnat would be the protagonist in the movie narrating the whole story infront of a cameraman. Davidi also passed out instructions that Burnat’s camera be used and some clips and footage of his...
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...2012: Good Guy, Bad Guy and the American President Md. Mahmudul Hoque1 Figure 1: 2012 by Ronald Emmerich (2009) The media has substituted them for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by an intensive study of the ways in which the media have swallowed it. -Marshall McLuhan (Sontag, 1977) Introduction ‘2012’- a film by Ronald Emmerich Hollywood's reigning king of catastrophe (Kois, November 13, 2009), came into public on 13th November 2009 with a view to making the audience experience the end of the world. While 2012 enthusiasts point to Nostradamus’ Lost Book, Bible codes, the WebBot computer project, the Hopi and Cherokee Indians, the I Ching (Chinese Book of Changes) and Mother Shipton to 1 Md. Mahmudul Hoque is an alumnus (Batch-54) of the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. He is currently working as an Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate to the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He can be reached at mhmoni24@yahoo.com Page 1 of 8 support their theory, it all ultimately goes back to the Mayans. The theory suggests that the world shall come to an end on December 21, 2012 through a mega natural disaster (Hitchcock, 2009). Ronald utilized this fashionable chronicle as the plot of the movie, and came out immensely successful to draw the interest of the audiences across the world. The character of the American President played by Danny Glover ...
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...on. When I look at the empirical evidence from societies with well-developed market economies, I find that what people want to buy is not fixed or biologically constructed. When the cost of supplying products goes down, people tend to use culture to differentiate themselves from other people, to pursue niche interests, to pursue hobbies. It’s the poorer or more primitive societies in which people specialize in one type of consumption. If you go to pygmy society in the Congo, for Critics of globalization contend that, even if increased trade promotes material prosperity, it comes with a high spiritual and cultural cost, running roughshod over the world’s distinctive cultures and threatening to turn the globe into one big, tawdry strip mall. George Mason University economist and Cato adjunct scholar Tyler Cowen has for years been one of the most insightful and incisive debunkers of that view. At a recent Cato Book Forum, Cowen discussed his newest book, Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures. Cowen squared off against political theorist Benjamin Barber of the University of Maryland, one of the most prominent...
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...on. When I look at the empirical evidence from societies with well-developed market economies, I find that what people want to buy is not fixed or biologically constructed. When the cost of supplying products goes down, people tend to use culture to differentiate themselves from other people, to pursue niche interests, to pursue hobbies. It’s the poorer or more primitive societies in which people specialize in one type of consumption. If you go to pygmy society in the Congo, for Critics of globalization contend that, even if increased trade promotes material prosperity, it comes with a high spiritual and cultural cost, running roughshod over the world’s distinctive cultures and threatening to turn the globe into one big, tawdry strip mall. George Mason University economist and Cato adjunct scholar Tyler Cowen has for years been one of the most insightful and incisive debunkers of that view. At a recent Cato Book Forum, Cowen discussed his newest book, Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures. Cowen squared off against political theorist Benjamin Barber of the University of Maryland, one of the most prominent...
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...November 9, 2015 Sandra Marken Effective Communication Paper Correspondence something we do each day, "characteristic" as a major aspect of our presence as people. People are social creatures, driven by a typical yearning to impart. In any case, to successfully convey in the working environment requires a sure level of reluctance, despite the fact that the procedure of correspondence may not appear to be something individuals need to chip away at, dissimilar to taking in another PC program. Like it or not in view of the anxiety of the workday, the undeniably differing American workforce, and the need to pass on complex data in straightforward terms, compelling relational abilities can and must be learned by all representatives, paying little mind to their position in the pecking order of the association. As indicated by expert etymologist and working environment specialized pro Jeff Harlig, data shortfall is one of the essential issues that happen and restrain working environment interchanges today. In spite of the fact that there is continuous exchange of 'data over-burden,' simply directors can accept that laborers have the same system of information as themselves. For instance, if an individual is showing somebody how to utilize a PC program, it is an easy win that the more the educator expect that the laborer has the same specialized mastery as him or herself, the less that specialist will have the capacity to repeat what he or she is being taught by the IT authority...
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...Wal-Mart Case Study Part 1 * Is Wal-Mart Good for America? * First company to report 256$ billion in sales * World’s largest company * Global retailors have become the most powerful in the global economy * Each week 100 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart * Try to keep costs as less possible * Large volumes, fast turnover * Buy less, sell for cheaper than the “other guy” * 120,000 items in stock, managed through barcode reader * Track sales of specific items, on specific days, spikes in sales, colors, sizes, flavors, etc. * Shift from push to pull production * Push: manufacturers deciding what to produce, and telling retailors to sell it * Pull: retailors deciding what is being sold, and telling manufacturers what to produce and when to produce it * Have satellite sales offices for manufacturers, focused on prices * Not much negotiations with manufacturers and Wal-Mart * Manufacturer and retailor power shift * Rubbermaid sales and profits fueled by Wal-Mart affiliation * When costs of Rubbermaid products increased, price needed to increase, but Wal-Mart refused to take a price increase * Wal-Mart dropped a number of Rubbermaid products, signaled decline of Rubbermaid * Rubbermaid bought out by Newell, a competitor * Rubbermaid auctioned off remaining items * Wal-Mart represents a cost-driven low-priced...
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...11th”) After the second tower of the W.T.C. was hit it collapsed in approximately 10 seconds. The North twin tower fell in 102 minutes after the hit… only six made it out alive. Meanwhile, United flight 93 was hijacked 40 minutes after taking off because of a delay. Hijackers then claimed they would not be landing (“September 11th”). The passengers heard the news of New York and Washington D.C. from airfone calls to the ground. Some of the passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. (“9/11 Attacks”) Thomas Burnett Jr, one of the passengers called his wife, “I know we’re all going to die, there’s three of us who are going to do something about it. I love you Honey.” Todd Beaner, also a passenger was heard saying, “Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll!” Over an open line. A flight attendant, Sandy Braudshaw called her husband and explained she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water, her last words were, “Everyone’s running to first class I’ve got to...
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...' I ask. And he says it is a shareware program for Web server technology. He said it was produced for free by a bunch of geeks just working online in some kind of open-source chat room. I was floored. I said, 'How do you buy it?' And he says, Tou download it off a Web site for free.' And I said, 'Well, who supports it if something goes wrong?' And he says, 'I don't know-it just works!' And that was my first exposure to Apache . . . "Now you have to remember, back then Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Netscape were all trying to build commercial Web servers. These were huge companies. And suddenly my development guy is telling me that he's getting ours off the Internet for free! It's like you had all these big corporate executives plotting strategies, and then suddenly the guys in the mail room are in charge. I kept asking, 'Who runs Apache? I mean, who are these guys?'" Yes, the geeks in the mail room are deciding what software they will be using and...
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...Temporary Labor: Issues of Health and Safety Experienced by Warehouse Workers in the Inland Empire By: Emily Phipps Ontario 106: Applied Methods in Qualitative Research December 2012 Phipps 2 Table Of Contents Introduction: Page 3 An Overview of Globalization and its Local Impacts on Warehouse Workers in the Inland Empire: Page 6 Literature Review: Page 8 Research Methods: Page 12 Setting: Page 12 Positionality: Page 14 Methods: Page 16 Ethics: Page 17 Discussion: Page 17 Health and Safety Issues in the Warehouse: Page 17 Corporate Responses to Health and Safety Issues: Page 20 Effects of Warehouse Workers United: Page 25 Conclusions: Page 29 Works Cited: Page 31 Appendix: Page 33 Phipps 3 Introduction: The NFI, a national trucking and supply chain company, warehouse in Mira Loma is a short bus ride from the Warehouse Workers United (WWU) headquarters, located at 601 S. Milliken Ave, Suite A Ontario, California. The bus is full of workers and community supporters filled with excitement and anticipation. We leave the WWU parking lot, heading south on Milliken ave, past the multitude of temporary staffing agencies and warehouses and over the train tracks. We take another left at the stop light onto E Mission ave and on the right, I can see all of the ‘Wal-Mart’ and ‘Swift’ containers through the thin line of trees. We turn onto Wineville ave, and we arrive at the warehouse. The bus doors open and the suffocating smell of animal decay from the nearby farms and slaughterhouses...
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...2006). There has been much debate as to whether the US should authorize the use of military ground forces due to the atrocities against civilians and barbaric killings against soldiers and journalists. However this essay contends, that despite the actions perpetrated by this terrorist group, a war will not put an end to the caliphate, therefore the US should not seek to put boots on the ground in attempts at defeating the Islamic extremists. It is right to say that the actions of jihadists cannot go unpunished, but the US putting boots on the ground will not defeat the Islamic state. If one understands the reason as to why the terrorists are obligated to what they do, then it is clear to acknowledge that a war will not stop them. As globalization spreads and societies become increasingly interconnected, Muslims have a choice; accept western beliefs to better integrate or preserve their spiritual purity by rebelling (Baylis, Smith, & Owens, 2011, p. 371) And this is why for many years, Muslims have fought through Jihad. Differences in value structures make the deterrence of religious terrorism difficult if not impossible, as secular states cannot credibly threaten materially that which terrorist’s value spiritually (Baylis, Smith, & Owens, 2011, p. 372) In the highly unlikely scenario where this course of action were to be a success, it would not last. I contend that in the long term,...
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...nations in the present era of globalization? When historians write of the world’s recent history, they are likely to reflect on two trends: the advance of globalization and the spread of democracy. Globalization has been the more contentious, because it has effects both good and bad, and democracy has opened space for people to protest the bad effects. So, controversies rage over the environmental, economic and social consequences of globalization. But there is another domain of globalization, that of culture and identity, which is just as controversial and even more divisive because it engages ordinary people, not just economists, government officials and political activists. Globalization has increased contacts between people and their values, ideas and ways of life in unprecedented ways. People are travelling more frequently and more widely. Television now reaches families in the deepest rural areas of China. From Brazilian music in Tokyo to African films in Bangkok, to Shakespeare in Croatia, to books on the history of the Arab world in Moscow, to the CNN world news in Amman, people revel in the diversity of the age of globalization. American coffeehouse chain Starbucks has begun selling its espresso and food items to ever-increasing number of countries and this way spreading American food habits. It is the first time in human history that virtually every individual at every level of society consciously or unconsciously feels the impact of globalization. He finds it in the media...
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...Petersen 1 ! Zachary Petersen Professor Edward Park FFYS 1000-27 12 October 2015 Has Globalization Rode Too Far Into the Surf Industry? The modern surfboard building industry was started in a backyard by a couple of friends, trying create a foam based surfboard to make something they could have more fun on in the ocean. They created an amazing product, proceeded to make boards for their friends, and later teach their friends to make surfboards. A culture was solidified and the techniques were handed down verbatim to the new board builders. The overwhelming sense of tradition and respect for the roots of the craft is strongly woven into the every individual in todays industry (prior to the start of Asian manufacturing of surfboard “pop-outs”). For these reasons amongst others, the board building industry is different than most other industries and does not follow normal patterns of globalization. The advancements in technology over the years, opportunities for cheaper labor and alternate materials have not changed the way the industry operates. Even with the addition of technology and manufacturing procedures, the fundamentals of how a board is made has not changed since it was first made in the late 50s. The industry is very exclusive, but not closed. There has been no opposition to globalization; globalization has kept the industry progressing forward. Most master shapers (people who sculpt the surfboard) and glassers (people who do the fiberglass sealing)...
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