The Evolution of International Communications

What are five ways that international communications have evolved significantly in recent years?

The evolution of International Communications has contributed to develop the rise of technology (with news tools: visio conferences, blogs, cell phone…), the media (with electronic media for instance), the intercultural notion, the business and the globalization.

In your opinion, which of these is the most important? Why?

In my opinion, the most important is the intercultural notion because it involves an opening on the other culture and a better understanding between foreigners. This notion associates the ideas of identity and “alterity” by different ways, values and attitudes. This is fundamental because all the societies need to deal with different culture and the globalization intensify that and offer to us and other vision of the world.

What aspects of this will most affect the way businesses and organizations do their work? What will be some of the ways this will change them?

Businesses and organizations’ work is affected by this expansion of communication. With the idea of globalisation, the organisations turn themselves abroad and need to deals with the international notion.
With the news tools everything is going faster. They have a lot of choice to communicate. But the organisations have to make the right choice. They have to think global.

How will this affect your way of working? What will you have to do to train and prepare yourself for this new way of working?

We have every day a larger access to information (with the rise of new technology) so, we need to be open-minded and aware. I think learn new languages, have an experience aboard to open ourselves on the world is a necessary thing to learn how to deals with other culture (which have different ways to work, think and joke…)
We also need to control the new technologic tools to communicate. It’s the perfect way to stay on the top, to communicate faster and all over the world.