WEEK-2

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (Globalization 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0)

Information Technology... 

is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary.

Infrastructure Architecture... 

is a new kid on the architecture block. Traditionally, a large amount of IT-architecture attention has been devoted to information and application architecture. However, several developments have fostered a growing desire for infrastructure architecture. But not only will an organization's infrastructure provisions benefit from the appliance of this new architectural discipline; IT architecture, as a whole, will mature. Being that infrastructure architecture is in its childhood, a lot of work has to be done to stimulate and create infrastructure-architecture methods, models, and tools. This paper includes a number of first steps in this new architecture discipline.

Globalization... 

1.0 started in 1492 when Columbus set sail and lasted until about 1800. It was about countries and muscles.

Globalization 2.0 started in 1800 and lasted until 2000, interrupted by the two World Wars. This era was about multinational companies.

Globalization 3.0 started in 2000 and is continuing through this day.This third era is all about the world coming closer together, becoming something like a global village.

[TWIF] Globalization 1.0 – 3.0...   around the year 2000 we entered a whole new era: Globalization 3.0. Globalization 3.0 is shrinking the world from a size small to a size tiny and flattening the playing field at the same time.
And while the dynamic force in Globaliation 1.0 was countries globalizing and the dynamic force in Globalization 2.0 was companies globalizing, the dynamic force in Globalization3.0 -the thing that gives it its unique character- is the newfound power for individuals to collaborate and compete globally.”                                                                      The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman, pg. 10

Green IT or ICT Sustainability... 

is the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.