WiscNet hosted the fall Internet2 K20 Working Group meeting today in Madison at the Pyle Center. We had a big agenda. Our focus continues to be how do we drive Internet2 awareness to K12 and Higher Education. My co-chair Daniel Gross from SWING before the video conference sessions:
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Internet2 is still developing new thinking for our world. Ever consider having your surgoen in New York while the patient is in India? Well Johns Hopkins is taking this a step closer. As a member of Internet2 they are beginning to work with hospitals in India to peform such tasks, including HIV/AIDS.
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I was not really surprised to learn Montevideo Uruguay has set in motion the process to claim the title “Silicon Valley 3.0” — Okay that’s too much to ask for, but they have established a foothold nevertheless.
Yes, that’s Montevideo Uruguay. That’s right…Uruguay. You may not be thinking Uruguay and high tech belong in the same sentence, but you would be very wrong today thanks to globalization.
No doubt about Tom Friedman’s article (subscription required) Wednesday in the NYTimes regarding Uruguay tapping into the highly successful outsourcing mix in India (the country holding the title Silicon Valley 2.0)…hey those Indian engineers have to sleep sometime! But just as the original Silicon Valley looked to India for Y2K solutions, now India’s largest consulting service has found a new source in South America.
It may raise an eyebrow that some very large American companies have their back-room operations and computing networks managed in this little South American country. American Express along with Proctor & Gamble have solidified operations in Montevideo…and Friedman’s article also pointed at major U.S. banks who have also migrated operations (and people) south of the equator.
Friedman illustrated again in a flat world you can build a successful business anywhere with access to educated people, technology and the internet. A solid business plan never hurts. If big U.S. firms are even considering moving to Uruguay…they have to be setting up shop the right way, for the right price and with the right types of resources in-place.
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Tom Friedman’s book The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization has great chapters including The Electronic Herd as one that fits right into how web2.0 entrepreneurs have been able to move social networks into powerful forces.
Although Lexus and the Olive Tree’s immediate focus was finance, its easy to see how MySpace impacts social networks.
The rapid change in today’s world has made a large leap within the last three years.
The strength of the herd continues to have more impact with even the youngest of the internet generation like…say…Digg.
I have not opened a phone book in almost five years…yet AT&T thinks the internet does not exist. So they dropped off these two trees…or shall I say “books” at my door.
I certainly did not ask for them. Sure the postal carrier feels the same way.
Its best save trees and make phone books optional. Now I have to drop them in my recycle box on garbage day.
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