Globalisation
Process of markets and companies operating internationally.
What is Globalisation?
Any working environment in which workers experience long hours, low wages and poor working conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
A country completely reliant on electronic information.
What is Estonia?
Distance food items travel.
What is food miles?
Trade made fair.
What is Fair Trade?
The process through which a wide range of technologies reduce human involvement
What is automation?
Difference between producing product and sale of the product.
What is profit margin?
Mobile phone coverage access significantly improved in Kenya; has dramatically improved people’s lives
What is M-Pesa?
The 4 reasons Australia sources food from different countries
What are climate, space, expertise and cost of production.
Unequal access to digital technology.
What is digital divide?
3 main benefits of trade for countries.
What is cheaper or skilled labour, available resources and government subsidies?
Fairtrade food items.
What are sugar, chocolate, coffee, tea, wine and rice.
Countries with internet "blackholes"
Maldives, Tunisia, Belarus, Libya, Syria, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Myanmar, Cuba, Turkmenistan, North Korea
Countries with a lower cost of living can produce food cheaply.
What is cost of production?
Product or service sold to, or purchased from a different country.
What is import & export?
Positive impacts of Globalisation
What are increased trade, greater competition, economies of scale, and increased capital?
Ways that make it difficult to compete fairly in international trade.
What are imposing tariffs, quotas and providing subsidies?
Reasons for bridging the digital divide.
What is economic equality, social mobility, democracy, and economic growth?
Australia's top two-way trading partner.
What is China?
Way of using specialised shipping containers, to transport ingredients, raw materials, parts and finished products from one place to another.
What is containerisation?
Negative impacts of Globalisation
What are monopolies of power (multinationals), structural unemployment, tax avoidance (easier)?
Positives of fair trade.
What is more evenly distributed trade, investment in local economies, regulated by a governing body?
Technology in landfill, reused, recycled, incineration or exported.
What are places E-Waste ends up?
3 ways to minimise carbon footprint of food
Avoid planes, Eat in Season, Check the Origin
Forms of communication including online and telephone banking, storing and sharing of medical records, online shopping and online games.
What is ICT (Information Communication Technology)?