Images of Globalization

Prof Prema Basargekar Click to edit Master subtitle style

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1-Internet major influencer for Hundreds Access the Net: At the "Student Internet World" program of globalization the 2002 Bangalore Information

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Technology Exposition, in Bangalore, India, hundreds of computers were set up in the Kanteerva indoor stadium. They offered the citys children what for some was there first access to computers and especially to Surfing the web. In India in 1999, there were only 300,000 estimated internet connections, utilized by an estimated 1.5 million internet users, compared with more than a third of the households that are wired for the internet in the United States.

Internet use for social cause

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Web Portals for Activists: Activists in Indias NGOs sector (Non Governmental Organizations similar to American nonprofit groups) learn to design web sites and use the power of the internet to advance their concerns for environmental

2-TV media: popularizing 4/16/12 globalization Eye on India for Outsiders:

Indian versions of American favorites such as MTV and ESPN dominate Indian airwaves. The Indian clone of "Who wants to be a Millionaire" eclipsed ratings of Indias sport passion, cricket. Hindi channels fill the airwaves of neighboring countries such as Bhutan with Hindi channels. 70 million Indian homes, which is less than half of Indias nearly 180 million households (made larger by joint families,) have TVs. Almost 30 million have cable, making India the third biggest cable market after the US and China.

TV: changing mindsets

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Televised Access to the Globe: The once held official belief that it was an unjustifiable luxury in a poor country was a major barrier to TVs initial entry into India. For a brief time, communal TV viewing centers preceded the age of home television, where TV was a potential community builder and medium of public education. TVs are now in over 60 million private homes. TV as a media has been found to be very effective in westernizing Indian mindsets through ads, serial, public display of love, physical affinity, Indias sudden encounter with satellite TV has required India to accept in five years cultural changes that the West adopted to over decades.

3-Movies: a great force of globalization

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Bollywood and Hollywood Movies: Despite the growth of TV in India, the cinema continues to be the Indian great passion. Hindi films are exported to more than 100 countries across the world meaning that overseas bookings and video rights account for as much as 30% of a

4-Taste of luxuries

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Global fashion in India: In Bangalore, India, Japanese fashion designer, Kazuo Ogawa, with his multi-national set of models and staff after a show of luxury jewelry he designed.

5-IT making big waves

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Information Technology as Global Intersection: At an Information Technology Exposition, in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, businessmen meet bringing together Western capital and cheap Indian high-tech labor. Indias $5 billion software exports are a fraction of its global exports of more than $200 billion. It has only three computers per thousand (which is expected to rise to twenty per thousand by 2008.)

6-Merging two cultures

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Cultural Exports: A waiter refills a drink at a "TGI Fridays" restaurant, essentially a transplanted American restaurant now in Bangalore, India. Meatless McDonalds and CocaCola imitations such as Thumbs-Up are examples of how India

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7-Advantage India

Globalized Employees: Indian women working in a garment factory, Dhatri Kreations, that produces womens clothing for a French company, in this case, with a French-Polynesian print, in Bangalore, India. These kinds of factories, often labeled sweatshops, offer some of the best paying, safest jobs available to women.

8-Changing roles

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Western Leadership Ends at Nike India: In Bangalore, India, the last Western manager of Nike Indias liaison office, Bill Foudy, works with Atul Ujagar, his successor and the first Indian to head the operations of Nike in India.

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Americanizing Indian Tele-Workers: Don Gilbert, a Canadian living in India with wide experience in America, teaches Indians about American culture so they can work in call centers, handling calls for technical support and other customer service needs for Americans, half a globe away. Currently,

9-Tourism: The first glimpse of 4/16/12 globalization

Tourists as Globalizers: Indian children delight in watching the video camera of a tourist viewing and videotaping a dance performance in the small village of Maddapuram near Madurai in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The tourism

10-Exchange of Skills

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Globalization of Expertise: Employees of a Cambodian NGO observe an Indian micro-credit NGO program loaning small amounts of money to poor slum women, in Bangalore, India, organized through the Association for

Globalization of culture

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Another Global Exchange: Westerners study Yoga at the Arogyadham Yoga Research Health Center on the rural outskirts of Bangalore in South Indias Karnataka state. The school has 74 full time residential students with nearly half non-Indians. Some are western tourists, with guidebooks speaking

11-Globalization of ideologies

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Political Globalization: The hammer and sickle of Communism, a political philosophy imported into India, blows in the wind in the South Indian state of Kerala. With a population of 29 million people Kerala is ruled by the first democratically elected Communist

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Outsourcing a big advantage?

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Can anyone beat globalization?

Cost competitiveness a major driver?

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Will globalization solve all our problems?

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Will it help everybody or only somebody?

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What next after globalization?