I think all of us would be really hard pressed to visualize life without our smartphones or other wireless communication device. The exception may be our grandparents but even many of them have started embracing this technology as well, often out of necessity. Wireless technology has become a critical piece of our daily lives in so many ways, even reaching some of the most remote regions of our world. The global rise in wireless communication has truly impacted our world in many important ways.
That’s great but what has it done for me exactly?
How about in the world of health care? Ever stop to think how the growth of wireless communication has impacted medical care in remote areas of the world? It’s amazing, predominantly by improving distribution of medical information and treatments. I found one very precise example for this. The United Nations Foundation printed paper, “Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs,” was actually published on the MobileActive.org website. It stated that personal digital assistant devices such as smartphones are being utilized by care workers in Uganda to help bridge enormous gaps in medical care simply by delivering medical information, disease-treatment guidelines and other information to the places where medical care is provided. As a result, wireless communication devices have proven themselves beneficial and valuable in the collection of data that helped limit the spread of a typhoid outbreak in Uganda. How’s that for having a global reach that helps everyone?
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What about in events requiring aid and assistance immediately after natural disasters and catastrophes? Whenever we receive news of disasters or catastrophic events in different parts of the world, a lot of this has been via wireless communication means recently. This new technology has enabled people across our world to witness these events as they happen live and activating rapid mobilization of assistance to survivors. Our First Responders rely on these for information. Mobile communication devices have greatly facilitated the ability to increase early warnings of impending natural disasters. This alone, has allowed, individuals enough time to prepare or get out of the way. Following these disasters and catastrophes, wireless technology has immensely improved communication lines between first responders, rescue workers and survivors and has certainly provided people the tools to more quickly contact their loved ones in those affected areas. I for one, have experienced this first hand on multiple occasions and there are countless lives that have been saved as a result of having wireless communication available now.
For many involved in environmental protection, wireless communication has been a tremendous help. There has been an enormous shift of emphasis these last 10 or so years regarding our environment and the protection of it. Working to protect our environment has really expanded new opportunities and certainly capabilities as a result of wireless communication. One example of this is the he MobileActive.org site which reported that mobile phones are frequently utilized to detect the movements and habits of endangered wildlife species, thus assisting in their protection. Environmental groups have now implemented text message campaigns to spread the word of specific causes and necessities. This frequently results in quicker and more expansive response rates than previous email campaigns have brought in the past.
We all know how wireless communication has affected the business world and its communication power. So, if you’re involved in business, and most of us are whether we realize it or not, wireless communication has had a historic impact on how companies conduct business nowadays. It has made it easier to keep in touch with clients around the world. More than 38 percent of the U.S. labor market’s growth between 2006 and 2016 could be attributed to the use of wireless communication. The global rise in wireless communication in the world of business has been astronomical.
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How many of you remember watching revolutions unfold on your smartphone and witnessing worldwide social change live?
With the advent and expansion of wireless communication worldwide, it has made it simpler for individuals to work together to support common causes which results in the potential for bringing about social change. Remember the events that took place back in 2011 in Egypt and Libya? The rebels made extensive use of social media networking in order to organize their efforts that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. Wireless communication allowed the entire world to watch this live from a perspective never before seen as those disturbances progressed.
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For all of our educators, how much has wireless communication changed the way we teach and demonstrate new ideas to students now? I realize in many schools; mobile devices are frequently considered to be a distraction by teachers, and many have actually banned them from their classrooms. However, with the advanced technology and capabilities now of smartphones, many educators are reconsidering their enormous potential as classroom tools. My wife, an enormously successful and innovative teacher, embraces this technology and readily utilizes it in her classroom with tremendous results. Some other examples; A math teacher instructing her students about parallel and perpendicular lines had them use their cell phone cameras to photograph items in their everyday lives that illustrated such lines. They were then instructed to email the photos to a classroom website for display. A physics instructor teaching about astronomy had his students use apps on their smartphones to map the night sky. Schools that once had to seek grants for funding to bring the Internet into their classrooms now have students carrying broadband Internet with them in their pockets. So many opportunities now exist.
Finally, I want to discuss news reporting and sports and entertainment.
Smartphones have, without a doubt, changed how news is covered, reported and received. This technology and ability has made anyone who owns a smartphone anywhere in the world a potential on-the-spot news reporter. The result is that almost any event that happens is almost guaranteed to be recorded from a variety of different angles. Smartphone video cameras allow anyone to record news events live as they are happening, and smartphone wireless communications provides them the means to push this information and video out to the rest of the world instantaneously. There is actually a smartphone-based news broadcast system called CGnet Swara that provides residents in remote villages in India the ability to report on news and events in their region. How cool is that?
I left the best for last to discuss how wireless communication has impacted us in sport and entertainment. As sport managers, we have probably grown up around wireless communication, although there are a few of us that distinctly remember a time when this technology did not exist. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind, that wireless communication has opened massive new avenues for sport and entertainment. Devices such as smartphones are equipped with applications for downloading and reading books and newspapers, and streaming games, movies, television, music and live sporting events. Those with smartphones now have a way of keeping themselves almost endlessly entertained while on the go or to fill the time between appointments or classes. Players, teams, coaches and fans now how the ability to converse with one another instantly giving fans the feeling of personally knowing their favorite sport heroes. Team owners can now tweet about draft selections, practices and post-game interviews with fans and people across the world. High school and even middle school athletes now have a medium to promote their athletic talents to recruiters and potential scouts. So much has changed in such a very short time.
So, do you still have questions about what the global rise of wireless communication has really done for you?
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