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Montgomery County MD builds ties to India
by Ed Morrison. 
Posted in Public. Tagged with global connections.
EDPros in Montgomery County, MD are making new ties to India. Recently five Indian technology companies established a presence in the Rockville Innovation Center.
The companies are members of the Indian Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council. MD officals met Council representatives during a county delegation’s economic development mission to India in November, 2007.
Quick turnaround.
Building global connections -- especially to fast growing economies -- helps U.S. regions grow. Follow this thought experiment. Assume we have two regions in the U.S. with identical economies, except for one factor. Compared to Region A, Region B has stronger business ties to dynamic economies like India, Brazil and China.
Which region is likely to be more prosperous over the long term?
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The shifting cost dynamics of globalization
by Ed Morrison.
Posted in Public, . Tagged with global connections, globalization, manufacturing.
Here's an interesting article on the impact of higher fuel prices on globalization.
Cheap oil, the lubricant of quick, inexpensive transportation links across the world, may not return anytime soon, upsetting the logic of diffuse global supply chains that treat geography as a footnote in the pursuit of lower wages...The cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Shanghai to the United States has risen to $8,000, compared with $3,000 early in the decade, according to a recent study of transportation costs.
New Hampshire's food branding
by Ed Morrison.
Posted in Public. Tagged with global connections, rural.
Speech material: The Human Network
by Ed Morrison.
Posted in Public. Tagged with global connections, globalization.
If you are giving a presentation on the impact of the Internet on regional economies, you might consider this quote from a senior vice president at Cisco Systems. (It comes from a newspaper in Thailand.)
Speaking in Thailand, Howard Charney cites this example of the Human Network:
There's a particular string of villages in Cambodia that has no electricity and no telephone service -- but they do have the mail. They have leapfrogged from zero communications infrastructure to wireless. Several times a week motorcycles fitted with wireless routers head out into the jungle as the bikes cruise through a village, they exchange messages wirelessly with the school's (battery-powered) computers. Back in town, everything gets sent out over the Internet.
You can watch a Cisco Systems video. I have used this video successfully in my talks on how the Internet is changing everything.
