China - India: Shift Happens
January 25th, 2008 - by Andy ScottThe Global educational slide show “Shift Happens” which we first unveiled on this site in May of last year has just been updated and provides a lot more data and statistics about China and India, and their impact upon the global economy and development.
Shift Happens originally began as the “Did You Know” PowerPoint presentation for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, United States. The presentation “went viral” on the Web in February 2007 and, as of June 2007, had been seen by at least 5 million online viewers. Today the old and new versions of the online presentation have been seen by at least 10 million people, not including the countless others who saw it at conferences, workshops, training institutes, and other venues. As the people who made it comment: “We do not view the growing importance of India and China as negative but rather as additional opportunities for everyone in the world. We do not mean to gloss over the very real issues that countries such as India and China face, and we recognize that globalization and “flat world” factors have downsides just like other societal shifts. We prefer, however, to focus on the positive benefits.”
It’s a fun and thought provoking presentation and will take just 6 minutes of your time. If you haven’t seen it before it is something you should take a short break to watch.
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January 26th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Excellent material, thanks for flagging it up and sharing.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Just got word of this via the Leading Edge in San Francisco. No wonder Chris Devonshire-Ellis is so hot on China-India and is moving his businesses there. It looks a damn cool move. Great site by the way, unique.