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Useful graphic

Mobile phone uptake in Kenya case study. Lots of great data to use with HL students. 

Useful document (produced by Trevor Cole?) for the start of the Global Interactions unit.

The idea of using renewable energy to power cell phone base stations in rural areas is nothing new. The latest variation on this comes from Ericsson and Orange Guinea Conakry which plan to deploy more than 100 solar-powered base stations:

Some interesting maps that can be used when teaching Global Interactions - data available in excel files.

Decades of education and economic mismanagement will need to be reversed if the one-time US colony is going to restore its language skills and build its lucrative call-centre business, reports John McLean

Technology connects us more and more each day. Who are the most and least connected people in the world?

"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.

"50 things that are being killed by the internet The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives - both positive and negative - in the fifteen years since its use became widespread."

useful data

Mobile phone uptake and use in peripheral locations - BBC News Report. 

AT Kearney used to explain why some countries are more attractive than others in terms of outsourcing.

Dilution of Japanese culture - Nice article from the BBC

Loss of sovereignty, diffusion, nationalism