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Description
Mind Map by Jodie Goodacre, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jodie Goodacre
over 11 years ago
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Global Networks
- Core regions are the most developed and highly populated regions of a country
- Switched On
- USA
- UK
- Europe
- USA
- Switched Off
- North Korea
- Censorship,
No
international
calls allowed
and
propaganda
played
throughout the
country
- Censorship,
No
international
calls allowed
and
propaganda
played
throughout the
country
- Chad
- Landlocked
- Landlocked
- Libya
- Internet was
completely
turned off
- Internet was
completely
turned off
- North Korea
- Shrinking world - Time Space Compression
- Telephones
- The first telephone and telegraph
cables across the Atlantic replaced
a 3-week boat journey with
instantaneous communication
- This revolutionised how
business was conducted and
laid the ground for TNCs to
operate in different continents
- Remains a core technology for
communicating across distance
- In parts of Africa where telephone
lines have never been laid, people
are technologically 'leap-frogging'
straight to mobile phone use
- In 2005, a system was
introduced that allows people
to buy cash vouchers and
transfer credit to businesses,
customers or family members
via mobile phones
- The first telephone and telegraph
cables across the Atlantic replaced
a 3-week boat journey with
instantaneous communication
- The internet
- With the advent of broadband, large amounts of data can be quickly moved across cyberspace
- Office staff can
work from home
- Enables firms to employ workers and consultants living in different countries
- Music companies can e-mail sound recordings to be
remixed by producers working in different countries
- Disney can produce
animated films using experts
in different countries all
working at the same time
- With the advent of broadband, large amounts of data can be quickly moved across cyberspace
- Air Travel
- Aerospace technology continues to evolve
- Faster aeroplanes produced in
greater numbers and with
increased capacity
- Firms like
easyJet have
pioneered
low-cost no-frills
mass air travel
- Cutting-edge designs like the Airbus
A380 (carries 550) are set to increase
air passenger numbers even further
- Aerospace technology continues to evolve
- GIS and GPS
- The first global
positioning system satellite
was launched in the 1970s
- Now 24 in orbit
- 10,000km
above Earth
- GIS are
software
systems that
can collect,
manage and
analyse
satellite date
- The first global
positioning system satellite
was launched in the 1970s
- Connections between nodes or global hubs (especially connected) are called flows.
- Flows are movements of: Money, Raw materials, Manufactured goods and services, Information and People
- Flows are movements of: Money, Raw materials, Manufactured goods and services, Information and People
- Trade and migration flows have
increased due to technology, market
forces and political decisions
- What happens in one
place increasingly has
impacts on other places
- If a firm in one nation goes bust,
then workers in branch plants in
other nations will lose their jobs too
- If a firm in one nation goes bust,
then workers in branch plants in
other nations will lose their jobs too
- Global hubs and other major network nodes are
switched-on places possessing qualities that
make other places want to connect with them
- Coastline ideal for trade
- Oil resources
- Physical
factors
aid
growth of
industry
- Strategic local encourages investment
- Large labour force
- Skilled labor
- Languages spoken (English call centres in India)
- Affluence attracts service providers
- Human resources and Natural resources
- Coastline ideal for trade
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