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=ITGS Student Comments=

This wiki page gives you all a chance to share your assignment work. I do not expect or think it necessary that your complete essay or work be copied here. However this is an opportunity to share ideas under common headings. Don't forget you can also instigate discussion on certin topics by going to the [|discussion page] for this page.

Task 1: Outsourcing
Arpit: Globalization is having a positive effect on the developing countries like India and China. Developed countries like U.S.A, U.K and Canada has transferred many of their jobs like customer care executives, helpline, hotline, online sale purchase etc. to the developing countries like India and China where the workers can be hired at low wages compared to U.S.A and Canada. Their office in the developing countries is usually called a Call centre. E.g. a really famous and the fastest growing call centre named [|Daksh] in Gurgaon, India was started with a total of 24 seats, which means that there were only 24 calling executives in the call centre and the call centre only had the contract from 1 company. Now after 6 years Daksha is the biggest call centre in North India with a total of around 2600 seats which is serving more than 12 countries now. What does this state? This states that 2600 unemployed people got a job and as a result the country’s economy is getting stronger day by day.

· In what other ways has technology changed the way people do business with each other?
 * Saif:**


 * With the widespread use of the internet, and its advancing speed, the ‘information highway’ has brought about a major change in the way certain businesses wish to operate or take form nowadays. This form of business is called E-commerce; which is in other words online business. Businesses can operate at low costs as they will not have to rent any office space, and will not require as many employees as they shift online.
 * The introduction of video conferencing has also brought about a change in the way businesses or people communicate. With such high speed internet and state of the art hardware available, people can communicate with others audibly and visibly in order to discuss business or any other matters.
 * With the use of the internet has also come the idea of Distance education. Many universities nowadays offer online courses for students, so that they don’t have to go to the university physically in order to complete their studies, they can just do it online. This is especially profitable for the universities as they can attract a large international student market in this way.
 * Online banking is also another major change in the way that businesses interact now; it has made the transferring of funds and money as easy as ever. Plus, the aspect of physical insecurity of money is also diminished by this.

Wasi

The convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world’s two biggest nations and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this “flattering” of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner. As time is moving forward the distance is getting shorter and the pace of working is getting even faster. The convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world’s two biggest nations and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this “flattering” of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner. As time is moving forward the distance is getting shorter and the pace of working is getting even faster.


 * Nader**

Currently, even though travel is costly and time consuming, the face to face experience between a student and a teacher is worth the effort. When meeting and communicating with one another, hand gestures, tone of voice, facial expressions are all necessary when communicating with one another. Yes all that could be done over a web cam, however how many people own web cams in the world today? Is meeting with a professor/student online the same experience you get in a class. I personally believe that the classroom is an atmosphere for most people to sit down and learn; and without the appropriate settings, and the complete form of communication being shared between the teacher and the student.

“The world is flat”

Do I believe in this statement? Obviously when Freidman said this, he was never describing the physical, geographical nature of the planet. He was speaking of the metaphorical geography of the economy. What Friedman was talking about was people from the farthest regions of the globe, from the western society, are slowly gaining access to more and more jobs anywhere they want in the world. He says that all this has become possible through the World Wide Web. Through the web, people are now sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography and increasingly language. Yes, this is happening in the world today. Friedman in his lectures always refer to this with a sense of fear, however, I believe it is a good system initiated by the people in order to fight poverty in the world.