In a truly global society, people demonstrate global courtesy, global insight, and global professionalism.
Global mobility, marked by increased global workforces and access to worldwide communication, blurs the line between geographical borders, industrial borders, and functional borders. Global mobility and digital communities are intertwined, influencing how people connect, work, and form relationships across geographical boundaries.
Global mobility and innovation: This mobility fosters multicultural societies where individuals maintain ties to their culture of origin, potentially influencing allegiance to the global society. Simultaneously, global innovation is enhanced through the intensification of economic, cultural, and political practices that extend across the globe, facilitated by the Internet and other communication technologies. These global processes are closely related to the global world, yet remain separate from specific national boundaries, while interconnectivity processes are anchored in and transcend one or more nation-states. The changes created by each are mutually reinforcing.
IT enabled Global World: Information Technology plays a central role in globalization by intensifying worldwide social interaction and enabling access to a global communication network. It facilitates interconnectedness, making the world feel smaller through advancements in communication and transportation. Key aspects of information technology's role include:
-Breaking down time and space: Instantaneous communication technologies dissolve geographical boundaries, creating a sense of a "global village" where awareness of time zones becomes second nature.
-Accelerating social innovation: Technologies like the internet and social technology accelerate social interactions and make them more flexible, shrinking distances and mediating social relationships more efficiently.
-Setting Global value: The global world is diversified, and value is a multi-dimensional concept. Global professionals today need to articulate a set of clearly-defined values that they can bring to the table, present a fitting mindset, attitude, and behavior consistency, to convey those values consistently.
-Transforming global trade: E-commerce reduces the impact of geographic distance, enabling fast and efficient ties between businesses and individuals worldwide.
-Disseminating knowledge: The Internet provides almost instant access to information globally, revolutionizing how knowledge is shared and accessed.
-Impacting diplomacy: Advances in transportation and communication technologies have sped up the transmittal of instructions and information, transforming diplomatic practices.
-Global Standards: Technology has contributed to standardized experiences worldwide, making travelers feel at home in any city.
Digital Nomads: Global mobility, supported by worldwide Internet connectivity, has enabled the digital nomad lifestyle, where individuals travel and work remotely from various locations.
-Virtual Communities: Digital networks facilitate the exchange of ideas, words, and relationships, whether or not people meet face-to-face, creating virtual communities.
-Evolution of Social Interaction: Virtual communities and social media have co-evolved, with emerging technologies affording new kinds of interactions. People now meet, socialize, conduct business, and organize collective action through various online platforms.
-Networked Individualism: Online social behavior has shifted from group-centric socializing to "networked individualism," where individuals operate in multiple, thinly connected, partial communities, forming their own "personal community."
With the increasing pace of changes and frequent disruptions, our global world has to create a new paradigm, with creative patterns, fresh concepts, new knowledge, and all sorts of innovators who can think differently and solve problems in alternative ways. In a truly global society, people demonstrate global courtesy, global insight, and global professionalism.
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