Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Multimedia,
Internet, New Technologies, course: Information System, language:
English, abstract: Global Information Systems help us to connect
globally with each other to share the information, to boost up
technology, to update the stock and market values in the world wide, we
can have a broader view of what is happening in the world. The rapid
growth of the global information systems has provided the potential for
the governments, commercial business, news and media organization,
education organization and other service, and has become a technology
that may have significant social and economic impact. A part from those
positive impacts, the global information system has a number of negative
impacts in different countries such as difficult to build international
information system, language problem, cultural difference, the digital
divide and legal barriers. The Internet is growing rapidly and has aided
instantaneous communication across the globe. Today, shopping can be
conducted in online hence a boost to the business community. The growth
of global Information systems has also led negative impacts that are
mostly social and economic. Especially in Africa, it has led to cultural
erosion. Most youth of the 21st century want to imitate the western
culture and also it has led to the growth of the IT and economic divide.
