What is GLOCALISATION?

Over the last few years, human-social organisation has been a witness to a strange transformation, either consciously or unconsciously. The forces of Industrialisation and Urbanisation have been until now responsible for how human societies organised and thus largely influenced their respective economies. On the one hand the world is experiencing the influences of a capitalist economy in democratic nation-states and socialist economy in communist nation-states on the other. The respective forms of governments and economies are all studied and debated. However, since the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICT), the outlook of humankind towards these has set a process of transformation.

Over the last two-weeks, our small town got access to BSNL's DataOne broadband internet connection! Voila! I am now posting on to this blog from Gubbi! Welcome, GLOCALISATION and hence this blog! :)

On wikipedia.org, GLOCALISATION is defined as...

'the term “glocal” refers to the individual, group, division, unit, organisation, and community which is willing and is able to “think globally act locally.” The term has been used to show the human capacity to bridge scales (from local to global) and to help overcome meso-scale, bounded, "little-box" thinking.'

Update: An excellent resource on Glocalisation is available here.

Well, to set the context straight, I have been intrigued by the rate of transformation human-societies are experiencing as a consequence of science & technology and of course the economy. The blog intends to present, analyse and characterise the process of this change through numerous personal encounters and observations. The setting ranges from urban, peri-urban, small towns and villages to encounters during travel (on road and rail).