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Richard Allaway

Globalisation: Going global | The Economist - 4 views

  • Richard Allaway
     
    "GLOBALISATION" is a relatively recent term. A search in the archives of this newspaper, perhaps the one most closely associated with globalisation, shows the word first used in 1961 in an article on the need for economic reform in Spain.
Kathleen Noreisch

1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi - 0 views

  • Kathleen Noreisch
     
    Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access.
Richard Allaway

A special report on telecoms in emerging markets: : Finishing the job | The Economist - 1 views

  • Richard Allaway
     
    Mobile-phone access will soon be universal. The next task is to do the same for the internet
Ian Hyland

Globalization index | Publications - 1 views

  • Ian Hyland
     
    The A.T. Kearney/FOREIGN POLICY Globalization Index is an annual study that assesses the extent to which the world's most populous nations are becoming more or less globally connected. Find out who's up, who's down, and who's the most global of them all.
Ian Hyland

Why Taiwan Matters - 0 views

  • Ian Hyland
     
    "Want to find the hidden center of the global economy? Take a drive along
    Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Freeway. This stretch of road is how you reach the
    companies that connect the vast marketplaces and digital powerhouses of the U.S.
    with the enormous manufacturing centers of China."
Ian Hyland

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Bhopal - 0 views

  • Ian Hyland
     
    BBC site covering the Bhopal disaster
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