Globalization In Developing Countries Essay

PROGRESS OF TECHNOLOGY TOWARDS GLOBALIZATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. IT issues vary with the development of a country, which is often measured with statistical indexes, such as income per capita (GDP), literacy rate, international trade volume, and investment dollars. Based on these statistics, a country is classified into one of four general categories (Palvia, Palvia, and Whitworth, 2002). The highest category is Developed Countries such as the United States, most European Union countries, Japan, and Australia. Key IT issues in developed countries are about the strategic use of information systems to support the global operations of a business. The second category is Newly Industrialized Countries such as South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and

In simpler words, developing country is a country that is not yet highly industrialized. Example of developing countries are India, most East European counties such as Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Greece, and Turkey, most South American countries such as Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Philippines, and Russia. The predominant IT issues faced by developing countries are operational and organizational issues. The issues about operational and organizational issues are in determining patents, contractual controls on information, privacy, security, data export control, encryption policy, technology adoption and transfer, rationalization, logistical control, government policies, censorship, criminal liability of information services, dissemination of government information, regulation of financial, education services, interoperability and standards, dispute settlements and digital divide. Developing countries faces major issues in technology because many new technologies generally are capital intensive and many of these countries may not have those resources. Generally the first adopter gets the benefits which favour the developed countries because of their