Geography / Year 9 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 2: Geographies of interconnections

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The way transportation and information and communication technologies are used to connect people to services, information and people in other places (ACHGK066)

Elaborations
  • describing the differences in peoples access to the internet between and within countries and exploring how information and communication technologies are being used to connect people to information, services and people in other places (for example, in rural areas across Australia and the world, including selected countries of the Asia region)
  • examining how information and communication technologies have made it possible for places (for example, in India and the Philippines) to provide a range of global business services
  • exploring how transport and information networks operate to connect people to services, including how supply-chain logistics influence these connections
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Transport networks,  Telecommunications,  Globalisation,  Social networking

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