Globalisation: The cell phone factor.

Globalisation is the process of collaboration and amalgamation between different cultural groups, driven by trade,investment and the advancement of technology.But how exactly did mobile technology enable globalisation? 

About 60% of the world's population owns a mobile phone.

 A farmer here in India can now easily talk to his daughter who has just moved to the United States.

 Mobile phones have helped in expanding the productive opportunities of certain types of activities by enhancing social networks, reducing risks associated with employment seeking, and enabling freelance service work. One gets to travel to places without the tension of going untraced, and lost. The inbuilt features of most phones have a GPS tracking system and the various Social Networking Sites have also exploited this palm gadgets for their own benefit; Twitter belongs more to the phone than a traditional PC or a now old fashioned Laptop.

Transforming and reinforcing the social and economic ties of micro-entrepreneurs and making local economies more efficient is also due to the cell phones.Famous micro-entrepreneurs started designing cell phone apps at a young age, most often with a meagre bank balance.

 Businesses have thrived due to the on-move-features the mobile phones offer; a pizza is just a call away.  But just a minute; isn't pizza Italian food? Mobiles have been extending their capabilities to entrepreneurship, banking, e-learning, and health delivery systems. 

Today the news of the world around us is in our pocket; our younger generation know Candy Crush Saga before knowing what table tennis or squash is; and the mobile phone number is known by heart, even though they're a bit confused about their house address.