The three chapters presented in this section address very different economic sectors. Seen as a case, each one illuminates a common understanding about the changing nature of economic development that is especially relevant for the 21 century. Moreover, each in its own way recognises the critical importance of infrastructure, and especially telecommunications, as an enabling technology for deve...

As more and more firms adopted internet-related technology, many forecasters predicted that the internet would change both the way Americans do business and where they do business. Essentially, the predictions presented two possible scenarios on the latter point. In one scenario, the internet would bring firms together into a single “global village,” suggesting internet technology would diffuse...

The term “Globalization” has been widely used in the last fifteen years. It is a controversial term and has been defined in several different ways. Globalization indicates that the world today is more interconnected than before. Globalization in its basic economic sense refers to the adoption of open and unfettered trading markets (through lowering of trade barriers, removal of capital controls...

The World Wide Web has made world a global village and internet of things (IoT) is making this place smarter and efficient by allowing the variety of sensors and smart objects to collect and process the information for various use. These smart objects are making healthcare system smarter and giving advantages to underdeveloped countries where basic health units do not have complete medical infr...

This extract highlights some of the problems South Africa are experiencing with its current status on privacy as viewed from an International perspective. In recent years the International society has stepped up its efforts in creating a global village wherein the individual could be assured of having his/her privacy protected. Various conventions and guidelines have previously laid the foundat...

1. The World is said to be a global village, linked together by all forms of technologies and infrastructures. At the touch of a button, it is virtually possible to access any part of the globe. That is the extent to which technology has gone. It has transformed humanity in several ways that could not have been imagined. Perhaps, no other phenomenon has had so much impact on humanity as technol...

Scholars have argued that the Internet could bring about the realization of an electronic global village, with no race, gender, infirmities, or the social problems that often accompany these physical indicators of difference. In this study, we explored this issue by conducting content and discourse analyses of online conversations about race and ethnicity in teen chat rooms. A key focus of our ...

For many decades, aggregate data (pertaining to zones) were used to study urban dynamics, using summary methods that rarely permitted the study of urban phenomena at the spatial process level [CLI 81]. Given the scarcity of data and lack of technology capable of processing data to model the details of the process, urban studies’ research was still able to obtain conclusive results with regard t...

Electronic media and new technology have changed the way we communicate and collect information, and this is the case especially if we look at the evolution of the Internet. The phenomenon of new technology is not unexpected and a few decades ago Marshall McLuhan was mentioning the importance the electronic media, and also the global village, would have for the individual and for the structures...