Global Innovation and Integration
There is a clear shift in the manner in which global innovation and integration have shaped the world considerably. Global innovations and integrations have reduced the old technologies to be ineffective and to some extent redundant because it is evident that such has increasingly become the old corporate model that cannot reach optimization in the ever-competitive global environment. The four known concepts associated with transformative nature of global innovation and the manner in which the information is being dispersed progressively across the world includes optimization, communication, collaboration, and integration. The systematic and sporadic transformations have made innovation difficult to embrace globally. Arguably, innovation has gone beyond ordinary but rather complex developments. For example, the invention of the modern mobile phones has not only revolutionized the world but also has influenced the human lives significantly by increasing their connectivity using the diverse media platforms.
Impact of Mobile Phones on Global Connectivity
It worth noting that indeed the invention of mobile phones has changed the world; turning it into a global village. In this respect, technology has the capability to improve people's living standards by uplifting them from poverty. The rate at which people have moved from using the landlines and computer desktops to the modern mobile smartphones has been amazing and radical. Such improvements have connected people who are a world apart; sometimes even millions of miles away from one another. As a result, human beings are able to communicate clearly with one another. Apparently, people have gotten the sense of future because information can flow easily from one point to the next one. Thus, free flow of information is spurring international development because it creates diverse opportunities and choices.
Innovation and Economic Growth
Moreover, innovation plays a crucial role in increasing the economic growth and competitiveness in general. In this regard, the development of the internet has incorporated business process and businesses. Several mobile carriers' reports indicate that approximately 3.7 billion subscribers exist; most of the people who are unable to subscribe to any mobile network live in the rural areas. Nevertheless, most subscribers have access to either 4G or 3G mobile networks. It means that most people can actually communicate. Interestingly, there are as many mobile subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia as they are in the United States of America. Evidently, mobile networks are spreading across the globe both wealthy nations and developing countries.
Transforming Lives Through Mobile Phones
In so doing, the connections have positively shaped people's ways of living. For instance, mobile phones have dictated considerably and influenced how people handle their money, govern themselves, work, and most importantly education has equally benefitted from this technological change. People have dropped the traditional banking systems as the invention of the mobile phone has provided an alternative way of people accessing the modern financial systems. Currently, people can monitor, send, or withdraw their funds from the bank using mobile application from diverse network operators. Notably, Kenya launched M-Pesa, a mobile application in 2007, which has been widely adopted by its citizens for sending and receiving money as long as the sender and receiver are within the coverage of the Safaricom mobile network. Since then, mobile banking has been on the rise across Africa. Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria just to mention a few have also heavily adopted mobile banking. Besides connecting and changing the financial sector, mobile phone companies have employed many people, therefore, rendering jobs to people who would otherwise be jobless.
Mobile Phones in Education and Agriculture
On the same note, mobile phones, in particular tablets, are closing the gap between students and teachers in most remote areas. Students can access a wide range of learning resources online. Initially, the traditional classroom setting appeared to be more boring for the learners because they contributed very little on the subjects the tutors were teaching in class. However, the advent of tablets have improved learning and made it even more interesting. As a result, students performances have improved due to their increased participation in class activities. Furthermore, the new classroom setting has allowed teachers to adopt appropriate pedagogical techniques that integrate well with the diverse students learning styles, hence, improving teachers and students performances generally.
Similarly, students can discuss with other learners from across the world using the various social platforms to exchange their ideas regarding certain concepts that are taught in class. Lastly, mobile phones have revolutionized agriculture as farmers can market their produce through online instead of carrying their goods to the market physically. Markedly, popular mobile carriers have collaborated with the federal government in the move reduce the cost of transporting farm produce to the market in order to increase profits of farmers. Today consumer can order for vegetables and other farm yields using mobile applications. Thus, global innovations have increased efficiency and improved the peoples living standards.
