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Sage Borgmastars

E-Waste Statistics Explored in Infographic : TreeHugger - 2 views

www.treehugger.com/...s-explored-in-infographic.html

infographic e-waste ib_geog2009 Global Interactions Environmental change

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  • Sage Borgmastars on 30 Jan 14
     
    US based but still useful look at where all our gadgets go...
Sage Borgmastars

The Anti-Immigrant Movement (of the US) - 4 views

www.splcenter.org/...the-anti-immigrant-movement

globalization labor anti immigration mexico us

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  • Sage Borgmastars on 30 Jan 14
     
    Nice background if you are using the Mexican/American example of Labor flow and anti-immigration in Globalization.
Ian Gabrielson

Developers: Use Your Coding Skills To Help Typhoon Haiyan Rescue Efforts In The Philipp... - 1 views

techcrunch.com/...cue-efforts-in-the-philippines

Shrinking world ICT_Civil_Society disasters

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  • Ian Gabrielson on 11 Nov 13
     
    "Developers: Use Your Coding Skills To Help Typhoon Haiyan Rescue Efforts In The Philippines"
johnwilliambray

Internet political activism / Avaaz (01Feb13) - YouTube - 2 views

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Sociocultural exchanges Political outcomes globalization culture Local level civil society

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  • johnwilliambray on 24 Apr 14
     
    EXCELLENT discussion and examples of how Avaaz (international) and 38 Degrees (UK) use online crowdsourcing to impact on politics and governance. Useful for HL ICT and Civil Society, role of Civil Society and advocacy.
Richard Allaway

Shell's clash with the Ogoni in Nigeria, a case-study - 0 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Richard Allaway on 24 Aug 10
     
    http://opencim.grenoble-em.com/file.php/38/Nigeria_case_Shell_short_pdf.pdf useful as additional information to supprt Nigeria and Shell, an example used in the IB Study Guide.
Richard Allaway

YouTube - Financial transactions and mobile technology in emerging eco - 0 views

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mobile phones youtube ib_geog2009 network contrasting_rates ict

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  • Richard Allaway on 25 Feb 09
     
    M-PESA is a new Safaricom service enabling money transfer using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone.
Kathleen Noreisch

Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch | Video on TED.com - 4 views

www.ted.com/...lt_a_toaster_from_scratch.html

ib_geog2009 Global Interactions

shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Noreisch on 15 Aug 11
     
    Interesting talk to use as a starting point for Global Interactions - How did we get to where we are? Why is it so difficult to produce goods at a small scale today? Where do all the materials we use for everyday products come from? What are the environmental consequences of mineral extraction?
Kathleen Noreisch

Old war, new peace and what it takes to send a text in Liberia - The Ushahidi Blog - 2 views

blog.ushahidi.com/...akes-to-send-a-text-in-liberia

ib_geog2009 Global Interactions Shrinking world mobile_phone civil_society

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  • Kathleen Noreisch on 04 Oct 11
     
    "The conditions that need to be present to text in Liberia do not necessarily exist simply because someone has access to a phone; if there is one major assumption that many of us in ICT for development are guilty of, it's this one." - an interesting piece which could be used to critically examine the adoption of mobile phone technology in sub-Saharan Africa and its role in civil society. Just having access is not always enough...
Matt Podbury

Video: Comedian puts US debt crisis into rap - Telegraph - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...s-US-debt-crisis-into-rap.html

Economic interactions and flows

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  • Matt Podbury on 26 Aug 11
     
    Remy Munasifi pokes fun at the current financial impasse in the US with his 'Raise the Debt Ceiling' rap, which has become an internet hit.
Ian Gabrielson

We Are Social's Guide to Social, Digital and Mobile Around the Worl... - 2 views

www.slideshare.net/...bile-around-the-world-jan-2012

Shrinking world Measuring global interactions Global Interactions ib_geog2009

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Matt Podbury

BBC News - 'Lifeline' US-Somalia remittances on hold - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-africa-16858818

Economic interactions and flows

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  • Matt Podbury on 10 Feb 12
     
    US-Somalia remittances on hold
Andy Dorn

This global protest map will shock and surprise you | ONE.org - 3 views

www.one.org/...ap-will-shock-and-surprise-you

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  • Andy Dorn on 20 Sep 13
     
    "This map from Foreign Policy magazine absolutely floored us. It charts out every protest recorded in the news since 1979. Here's all the known protests in December of 1980, "
Richard Allaway

60% of the world's population now has a mobile phone | Mail Online - 3 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...-population-signs-handset.html

ib_geog2009 globalization shrinking_world network contrasting_rates

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  • Richard Allaway on 06 Mar 09
     
    Mobile phone use has exploded in the last seven years, according to a U.N report. The number of global subscriptions quadrupled from around 1billion in 2002 to 4.1billion at the end of last year.
tainsh

ICT for Development: Combating Corruption and Increasing Government Accountability (Aud... - 2 views

www.cfr.org/...p28458

Economic interactions and flows

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  • tainsh on 30 May 13
     
    ICT and Civil society - using ICT to combat corruption and promote good governance - 11 mins audio from ICT4Gov and Voices against Corruption
Timothy Swan

BBC - Future - Technology - How to water crops with a mobile phone - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...w-to-water-a-farm-with-a-phone

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  • Timothy Swan on 18 Jun 13
     
    Farmers in LEDC's using mobile phone technology to aid them in irrigating their fields
gareth barrell

BBC News - Indian businesses have patience tested over online ventures - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-20472806

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  • gareth barrell on 01 Jan 13
     
    Change in use of ict, extension and density of networks
Roger Groenink

Mobile services in poor countries: Not just talk | The Economist - 2 views

www.economist.com/...18008202

Information flows Shrinking world

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  • Roger Groenink on 22 Dec 11
     
    Examine the changes in a transport, internet ortelecommunications network in terms of the extension oflinks and nodes and the intensity of use at a national orglobal scale.Describe the role of information and communicationstechnology (ICT) in civil society and the transmission andflow of images, ideas, information and finance.
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