Trends (LESSON 5)

• In the early and late 1980's, one most popular means of reaching out to loved ones from abroad to their families in the Philippines was through "voice tapes"
• It takes about a month or months for a taped recorded voice message to be played by their families using cassette tape players
• Now, almost anything can be accessed in real time despite global distance
• Globalization was born out of the inter-linkages of nation – states which has in varied ways influenced the life of people worldwide
• Globalization


  The emergence of an international network, belonging to an economic and social system
• The earliest known use of the term "globalization" in a publication entitled "Towards New Education"

  1930
• Globalization


  The understanding of the world and the increased perception of the world as a whole
• Globalization


  All those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society
• Globalization can be linked to the local, the national and the regional
• Globalization


  A process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations
• Globalization is driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology
• Globalization has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being on societies around the world
• For many developing nations, globalization has led to an improvement in standard of living through improved roads and transportation, improved health care, and improved education due to the global expansion of corporations
• Globalization has had a negative effect on individuals who live in developed nations
• Migration


  Movement to another place, often of a large group of people
• Labor


  Work, especially hard physical work
• People are more willing to move between different countries today in search for work
• Remittances now play a large role in transfers from developed countries to developing countries
• Economic Globalization


  The increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross boarder movement of goods, services, technologies and capital
• Economic Globalization


  • Trans-national trades are companies that extend beyond the borders of one country example of these are Unilever and McDonalds
  • World Trade Organization is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The WTO has 164 members and 24 observer governments
  • Foreign Direct Investment is an investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country
• Social Globalization


  A social transformation or process leading to the achievement of people-centered development
• Social Globalization


  • UN General Assembly
  • Partnership of International Development Programs
  • Social Integration, Gender Equity and access to Social Services
  • HIV/AIDS Awareness
• Political Globalization


  An increasing trend toward multilateralism in an emerging transnational state apparatus and the emergence of national and international non-governmental organizations that act as watchdogs over governments
• Roles of government in addressing sustainability concerns

  • Policy development
  • Regulation
  • Facilitation
  • Internal sustainability management
• Financial Globalization


  A collective concept that refers to increasing global linkages created through cross-border financial flows
• Technological Globalization


  Accelerated in large part by technological transmission, the spread of technology across borders
• The Philippines ranks 83rd out of 138 countries in terms of technological readiness, according to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
• Ecological Globalization


  Occurs when ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere, the flow of water in rivers and the migration of animals across the landscape
• Geographical Globalization


  The set of processes (economic, social, cultural, technological, and institutional that contributes to the relationship between societies and individuals around the world
• Globalization leads to interconnectedness of people and nations
• People


  A group of people with commonality, such as religion, culture and language who lives in a specific area
• Nation


  A larger group of people organized in a specific place, which embodied an independent government of its country where they can decide on their own
• Cell phones connect people all over the world like never before
• There are a multitude of platforms through which people can communicate, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Snapchat
• The new normal education allows people to enroll in online educational programs in school from anywhere in the Philippines without the different platforms and access new information on virtual topics
• Collaboration


  Working together with others to achieve a common goal, unconditionally sharing everything and helping each other while mutually working together in cohesive "collective" in unusual roles embracing talents of each person to synergize or invent something new
• Cooperation


  The process of working together to the same end, an active help from a person, organization etc. such as an orderly sharing of space and resources, conditionally sharing information and resources while functioning together within an independent "connective" in typical roles with workloads accepted as unequal to change something