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Social Media and the Globalized World

Social Media and the Globalized World. Christy Luther Alvin Singh Pei Chieh Chen Pam Kahl. Poverty in Nicaragua Second poorest nation in the Americas – BBC News Poverty affects 2.3 million persons in Nicaragua Environmental degradation in Nicaragua exacerbates poverty

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Social Media and the Globalized World

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  1. Social Media and the Globalized World • Christy Luther • Alvin Singh • Pei Chieh Chen • Pam Kahl

  2. Poverty in Nicaragua • Second poorest nation in the Americas – BBC News • Poverty affects 2.3 million persons in Nicaragua • Environmental degradation in Nicaragua exacerbates poverty • Poverty and its interaction with the environment increase the already high levels of social and environmental vulnerability • – UNICEF Photos: KathyAAdams

  3. Solar Energy • Quickest and least expensive way to bring electricity to remote areas • Requires very little maintenance and has no adverse impacts on the environment • Provides an independent, decentralized source of power to the user – Terrasol, a U.S. NGO for solar development Photos: Sustainable Harvest International & Thomas Le Ngo

  4. Hope for Nicaragua • Nicaragua shows signs of a growing middle class – 2003 U.S. Embassy Report • 79% of primary-school-age children are enrolled – UNICEF • 53% of the Nicaraguan population is under 18 years of age – UNICEF • Pro Escuelas Program adding Internet to schools – AMCHAM • In 2007, AMCHAM was supporting 609 schools and a total of 78,000 students Photos: KathyAAdams

  5. Bring it all together.Social media can be utilized to:

  6. The Indian conglomerate Essar Group invested $500 million dollars in Econet Wireless operations in Kenya • Ranked 57th in the world Kenya has over 3 million Internet users in 2007 • 14 million mobile phone subscribers in major cities

  7. “Pre Paid Blackberry” • Safricom mobile provider allows customers to pre pay for a Blackberry every 30 days. • This allows entrepreneurs to have a GSM phone with Internet access and email • Competitive companies provide better services for the user

  8. Mobile Banking • Kenya was the first nation to use money transfers via cell phones • Users can now send cash to family members without bank accounts at the touch of a button • Farmers can receive market updates by checking their text messages

  9. Korean Cyworld culture Each April, Cyday was held as a festival in Soul, South Korea. People has a chance to interact with avatars of Cyworld. The event connect the on-line and off-line life for Cyworld users. (Source: http://bodo.tistory.com/tag/축제 )

  10. My world is Cyworld 90% South Koreans in their 20s are Cyworld members and use their own avatar to communicate with friends. (Source: http://minilife.cyworld.com/web/guide/beginning)

  11. Japanese Mixi culture Mobile phones are important tools for Japanese to access social networking sites. Mixi users feel more or less of obligated to comment on other’s diary immediately via mobile phones. (Source: AP images)

  12. Mixi is about us MySpace is about me, me, me. Mixi is about us. Mixi users join “uchi”(social group) to exchange information with other members. The site also provides “transnational connectivity” for overseas Japanese. (Source: http://www.fukuoka-pu.ac.jp/virtual-ll/hotpot/800px-Tokyo_University_Entrance_Exam_Results_4.jpg )

  13. Background: • One third of the world’s deaths are due to communicable diseases • “health challenges present, arguably, the greatest barrier to global economic development” • By the end of 2006 68% percent of the world’s mobile phone subscriptions were in developing countries

  14. Young people (under 25 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide At the end of 2007, five million people were living with HIV in Asia Russia has the largest HIV epidemic in Europe Source: Associated Press HIV/AIDS . . . is strongly influenced by the social networks in which a person circulates

  15. More than half a million women die every year of complications during pregnancy or childbirth. Most of these deaths can be avoided as the necessary medical interventions exist and are well known. The key obstacle is pregnant women's lack of access to quality care before, during and after childbirth. Source: Associated Press Understanding the social capital of a community is perceived as such a core function of public health programs, the World Bank has developed the Questionnaire for the Measurement of Social Capital

  16. The lives of more than 50 million children have been saved in the last 25 years as a result of oral rehydration salts Positive health care behavior needs strong linkages between health facilities and the communities through social networks to be successful

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