EQ1: 3.1

Question 1

Define Globalisation

Answer 1

Increasing the flows within and between networks

Question 2

What are these global networks?

Answer 2

When human beings connect with each other across national borders at world-region scales
Creating economic, social and political structures

Question 3

What is a hyperconnected world?

Answer 3

Connections of money, info & materials that link businesses together - which span across continents as part of a single global economic system

Question 4

What are the main flows between places?

Answer 4

Commodities, capital (money), information, migrants, tourists

Question 5

What is economic globalisation?

Answer 5

Businesses in developing and emerging countries have expanded and led communities into global systems as producers/consumers of goods & services

Question 6

What is cultural Globalisation?

Answer 6

Widespread cultural changes which have occurred through the adoption of language, fashion, music, food that originated in powerful countries. Sometimes cultural changes are fiercely resisted

Question 7

What is Social Globalisation?

Answer 7

Due to international migration social connectivity has grown resulting in global improvements in education and healthcare - resulting in higher literacy rate & life expectancy. Also grown due to social media

Question 8

What is Political Globalisation?

Answer 8

Growth of large trading blocs and important global organisations - linked to concept of global governance

Question 9

Explain remittances

Answer 9

Money that migrants send home to their families via formal or informal channels

Question 10

Global flows lengthened….

Answer 10

Products sourced from faraway continents

Question 11

Global flows deepened….

Answer 11

Connectivity felt in everyday life - imported food, TV to use global social media

Question 12

Global flows faster….

Answer 12

Communicate in real time - messenger, skype etc

Question 13

Explain Time-Space Compression/Shrinking world effect

Answer 13

Heightened connectivity changes our conception of time to the movement of goods - travel times fall - different places approach each other in space time

Question 14

Transport in the 19th Century

Answer 14

Railways, telegraph, steam ships

Question 15

Transport in the 20th Century

Answer 15

Jet aircraft, containerisation, cyberspace information

Question 16

Factors involving a shrinking world (the process)

Answer 16

Horse-drawn coaches, sailing ships, steam trains & ships, propeller aircraft, jet passenger aircraft, cyberspace info

Question 17

How does time/space convergence affect some placed more than others?

Answer 17

It depends on connections - falling costs communications, reducing the lapse of information transmission

Question 18

What transport speeds up manufactured goods?

Answer 18

Shipping, trains, aeroplanes, containerisation

Question 19

ICT developments in the 21st Century

Answer 19

Telephone - especially mobile technology, Internet (social networking, electronic banking, fibre optics), communication costs have been lowered, time-space compression

Question 20

Explain Leapfrogging

Answer 20

Developing countries will often skip steps in technology. E.g High income countries have landline before mobile but developing countries will have a portable phone so there’s no cable

Question 21

In Kenya Safaricom launched M-Pesa - what does it do?

Answer 21

Mobile phone service which allows credit to be directly transferred between phone users

Question 22

What do people in Kenya use mobiles for?

Answer 22

• People in towns and cities - to make payments for utility bills & school fees
• Farmers and fishermen - check market prices before selling produce

Question 23

What is the role of Fibre Optics?

Answer 23

Cables laid on the ocean floor where internet data moves via these optic cables - owned by governments & TNCs

Question 24

How is there Unequal access to the internet

Answer 24

Country with higher GDP - higher internet connectivity e.g Hong Kong
Countries with lower connectivity - Asia, South America, Africa