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There has been a lot of hype around social media, social networks and social business, much of it unhelpful in understanding what this is all about. For some people, “social” will always mean frivolity and time wasting. For others, social media just means marketing and communications.
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Aborto
Barriga de Aluguel
Anticoncepcional
Responsabilidade dos familiares
Xifopagos
Chapter 11 Globalization and the Digital Divide Learnin.docxzebadiahsummers
Chapter 11: Globalization and
the Digital Divide
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this chapter, you will be
able to:
• explain the concept of globalization;
• describe the role of information technology in
globalization;
• identify the issues experienced by firms as they
face a global economy; and
• define the digital divide and explain Nielsen’s three
stages of the digital divide.
Introduction
The Internet has wired the world. Today it is just as simple to
communicate with someone on the other side of the world as it
is to talk to someone next door. But keep in mind that many
businesses attempted to outsource different needs in technology,
only to discover that near-sourcing (outsourcing to countries to
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which your country is physically connected) had greater advantage.
This chapter looks at the implications of globalization and the
impact it is having on the world.
What Is Globalization?
Globalization refers to the integration of goods, services, and
culture among the nations of the world. Globalization is not
necessarily a new phenomenon. In many ways globalization has
existed since the days of European colonization. Further advances
in telecommunication and transportation technologies accelerated
globalization. The advent of the the worldwide Internet has made all
nations virtual next door neighbors.
The Internet is truly a worldwide phenomenon. As of December
2017 the Internet was being used by over 4.1 billion people world
wide.
1
From its initial beginnings in the United States in the 1970s to
the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990s to the social
networks and e-commerce of today, the Internet has continued to
increase the integration between countries, making globalization a
fact of life for citizens all over the world.
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The Network Society
In 1996 social-sciences researcher Manuel Castells published The
Rise of the Network Society, in which he identified new ways
economic activity was being organized around the networks that
the new telecommunication technologies had provided. This new,
global economic activity was different from the past, because “it
is an economy with the capacity to work as a unit in real time on
a planetary scale.”
2
Having a world connected via the Internet has
some massive implications.
The World Is Flat
Thomas Friedman’s 2005 book The World Is Flat uses anecdotal
evidence to present the impact the personal computer, the Internet,
and communication software have had on business, specifically the
impact on globalization. Three eras of globalization are defi.
World Government Summit on Open Source (keynote file)Tim O'Reilly
This is the keynote file for my talk at the Acquia World Government Summit on Open Source. I talked about the role of open source in the internet, and the role it can play in government.
2. possible for more people than ever to
collaborate and compete in real time
with more other people on more different
kinds of work from more different corners
of the planet and on a more equal
footing than at any previous time in the
history of the world”
(p. 8)
3. 10 Factors affecting the
flatness of the world
The New Age of Offshoring:China
Creativity Supply Chaining:
The New Age of Walmart
Connectivity In-Sourcing: UPS
Work Flow Software In-Forming: Google &
UPLOADING, Harnessing Yahoo Groups
Power of Communities The Steroids
Outsourcing: India
4. 1. New Age of Creativity
11.9.89
Fall of the Berlin wall as symbol for a
general global shift towards democratic
governments and free-market economies
from a centrally planned economy to a free-market
system 2 after the Berlin Wall fell
5.90 Microsoft shipped its breakthrough
operating system, Windows 3.0
personal computing is influential is that it
fostered people’s interaction with digital media
content – music, pictures, video, and text
5. 2. The New Age of Connectivity:
When the Web Went Around and Netscape Went Public
Netscape made the Web user-friendly and
suddenly everybody was getting online.
Netscape was available for every major
operating system: Microsoft Windows, Apple,
and UNIX
standardizations further simplified
communications among computers.
Standards emerged for email (SMTP and POP),
file transfer (FTP),
secure data transmission (SSL).
6. 2. The New Age of Connectivity:
When the Web Went Around and Netscape Went Public
8.9.95 Netscape
stocks in the open market
dot.com.bubble
Fiberoptic cable
7. 3. Work flow Software
software that enables workers in different
locations to collaborate efficiently.
how some computing standards (SMTP,
FTP, SSL) allowed people using different
computing systems to communicate with
each other
adoption of their Office software (Word,
Excel, PowerPoint) has increased our
ability to share and coordinate our work
8. 3. Work flow Software
“Genesis: The Flat-World Platform Emerges”
user-friendly computers (Flattener #1) that
can
share a wide variety of electronic content
(Flatteners #2 and #3), it suddenly becomes
possible to not only communicate over vast
distances but also to collaborate – to work
together with others to create new
information.
9. 4. “UPLOADING, Harnessing
the Power of Communities”
processof transmitting information from
your computer to a network
“Community-developed software
amateur programmers works on a
program collaboratively.
These people work on the program as a
hobby, usually with no expectation of
financial reward.
hybrid model in which the software is given
away for free but reliable expert support is
provided for a fee.
10. 4. “UPLOADING, Harnessing
the Power of Communities”
Blog
“web log” person’s online journal, often
with the ability for others to post comments
role as “an army of citizen journalists”
breaking down the barrier
from individual users to the online
community
participatory quality of online experience
11. 5. OUTSOURCING: India
Outsource “knowledge industry” jobs such
as accounting, software development, or
radiology to anyplace
1. a broadband Internet connection
2. Expertise
3. proficiency in English
12. 5. OUTSOURCING: India
1. a huge amount of fiber-optic cable was laid in
India by U.S. companies in the 1990s, which
became incredibly cheap after the dot-com
bubble burst in 2000
2. India’s Institutes of Technology provide world-
class education in engineering, computer
science, and management
3. India has the world’s second-largest population
of English speakers
13. 5. OUTSOURCING: India
Y2K
fear was that when a program advanced from
December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, it would
behave as if the year was actually 1900,
potentially disrupting a huge amount of business
and scientific calculations
1999U.S. companies were scrambling to make their
software “Y2K compliant” and they were in short
supply of English-speaking programmers hordes of
well-trained Indian programmers who would work
for a fraction of the cost of an American
programmer and deliver high-quality work.
14. 6. “OFFSHORING”: China
OFFSHORING when a company moves its
production from its home country to another
country, where it can be done with “cheaper
labor, lower taxes, subsidized energy, and lower
health-care costs” (p. 137).
OUTSOURCING company takes one of its
peripheral tasks (e.g., accounting) and has
another company handle it.
15. 6. “OFFSHORING”: China
China’s wages have such a big impact on wages
of workers all over the globe is another example of
how the world has become “flatter.”
emphasizes throughout his book: The real money is
in creative design rather than manufacturing.
By moving their production overseas, U.S.
companies are able to sell the same items to
consumers for less cost.
16. 7. “SUPPLY-CHAINING”:
Wal-Mart
increasing the connections between
suppliers, retailers, and customers
domination of the retail market is how
intelligently it handles products
Communicating with suppliers in this way
was completely new, and enabled them to
increase or decrease production to keep
up with demand.
pioneered new ways to control its
distribution of products between customers
and manufacturers regardless of where in
the world those manufacturers exist
17. 7. “SUPPLY-CHAINING”:
Wal-Mart
aimed at keeping prices as low as
possible under tremendous pressure to
keep labor costs low.
Wal-Mart is like China in that
its low wages and benefits have forced
other companies to cut their wages and
benefits to compete
18. 8. “INSOURCING”: UPS
Insourcing
is hiring another company to
handle your supply chain.
19. 9. “IN-FORMING”: Google and
Yahoo! Groups
dramatic change in how easy it is to
obtain information
Search engine Google contributes to in-
forming because it enables people to find
webpages that are more relevant to their
searches than any other search service.
webpages can be ranked by the number
of links pointing to them
puts more
power in the hands of individuals by letting
them do their own research
20. 9. “IN-FORMING”: Google and
Yahoo! Groups
Yahoo! Groups connects people with
similar interests to each other.
21. 10. “THE STEROIDS”
puts all text, sound, photo, and video media
into a common standard – digital (0’s and 1’s
in a computer) – that can be easily shared,
stored, searched, and manipulated
VoIP (“voice over Internet Protocol”), which
allows people to make phone calls using a
broadband Internet connection
cost the same, regardless of how far you are
calling – next door or to another continent
23. platform enables individuals, groups,
companies, and universities anywhere in the
world to collaborate – for the purposes of
innovation, production, education, research,
entertainment, and, alas, war-making
integration among different departments and
sometimes integration of different companies &
shift from vertical organization to a more
horizontal organization
China, India, Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin
America, and Central Asia opened their
economies and political systems so that their
citizens could participate on the global platform
24. foreshadowing of multi-national corporations,
the rise of and global supply-chains and a
concise explanation of why industrialized
production has spread so quickly across the
globe