Today I arrived in Bangalore India for Module 4 of my Global Educational Experience.
I left mid day Friday in Seattle and spent over 20 hours in the air flying, touching down just briefly in London, and arriving on Sunday morning in Bangalore.
From London to Bangalore I had a window seat. One of my professors told me that to understand globalization, you just have to follow the light. He showed in class a picture of the world at night and all the light scattered around the world clustering at metropolitan areas and dispersed in less developed areas. Flying from England to India-the route took us over the Middle East during night. If I wasn't asleep, then I was just following the light. Seeing how cities where connected by street lights, or how single pockets of flickering lights scattered like stars in the sky. I am curious how those lone flickers received electricity-was it battery, solar energy, some non obvious connection to a grid? Or maybe it was that water in the bottle, with bleach invention light technology solution that I have heard so much about. None the less, the pattern of light from the sky is thought provoking and beautiful and I would love to fly around at night taking pictures.
Back to school stuff...
This module I am taking three classes and my consulting team will be presenting our findings to our clients.
The classes:
Managing human and social capital 1: Cross cultural management & Intercultural development Inventory. Negotiating Intercultural Interactions.
Managing Human and Social Capital 2: Building Competitive Advantage through People
Knowledge & TechnologyManagement
Consulting Project Practicum: My group's focus is "Innovations and Technology for the Poor. " We will be presenting our findings to Infosys at the end of the module. The Consulting project was started at the end of Module 2. I have had the great pleasure of interviewing companies, and organizations in Seattle to get first hand accounts of what is working and what is failing when looking at services and products to the poor globally.
So much more to come...
Love you all,
Lizzie
I left mid day Friday in Seattle and spent over 20 hours in the air flying, touching down just briefly in London, and arriving on Sunday morning in Bangalore.
From London to Bangalore I had a window seat. One of my professors told me that to understand globalization, you just have to follow the light. He showed in class a picture of the world at night and all the light scattered around the world clustering at metropolitan areas and dispersed in less developed areas. Flying from England to India-the route took us over the Middle East during night. If I wasn't asleep, then I was just following the light. Seeing how cities where connected by street lights, or how single pockets of flickering lights scattered like stars in the sky. I am curious how those lone flickers received electricity-was it battery, solar energy, some non obvious connection to a grid? Or maybe it was that water in the bottle, with bleach invention light technology solution that I have heard so much about. None the less, the pattern of light from the sky is thought provoking and beautiful and I would love to fly around at night taking pictures.
Back to school stuff...
This module I am taking three classes and my consulting team will be presenting our findings to our clients.
The classes:
Managing human and social capital 1: Cross cultural management & Intercultural development Inventory. Negotiating Intercultural Interactions.
Managing Human and Social Capital 2: Building Competitive Advantage through People
Knowledge & TechnologyManagement
Consulting Project Practicum: My group's focus is "Innovations and Technology for the Poor. " We will be presenting our findings to Infosys at the end of the module. The Consulting project was started at the end of Module 2. I have had the great pleasure of interviewing companies, and organizations in Seattle to get first hand accounts of what is working and what is failing when looking at services and products to the poor globally.
So much more to come...
Love you all,
Lizzie
2 comments:
HI LIZZIE,
WE ARE SO HAPPY YOU ARE ALIVE,WELL AND FUNCTIONING : ) 20PLUS HOURS IN A PLANE WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR ME--REGARDLESSS OF THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE LIGHT SHOW BELOW. BANGLADORE--A CITY FOUNDED IN THE 15TH CENTURY--ANCIENT AND MODERN KNOWN FOR IT`S BEAUTIFUL GARDENS--A FORWARD THINKING CITY, THE TECH CENTER OF INDIA. A GOOD PLACE FOR YOU TO STUDY. TAKE CARE, MUCH LOVE, MUM XO
OOPS--SP--"BANGALORE" !!!!! : )
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