OIv2i11_1104_India_Cities_Comparison
Which cities in India are most ideal for conducting ITO/BPO workand which are emerging as strong contenders?
Services globalization has turned the world into a global village,enabling the seamless delivery of IT and business processes acrosstime zones. As a result, traditional and emerging globalizationdestinations such as India, the Philippines, China and Russia aredeveloping Centers of Excellence. [...]

Detailed Program
Scope and guiding questions of the conference.
Megacities worldwide are an outstanding feature of urbanization and are culprits and victims of dramatic global change processes at the same time. They do not only involve unprecedented population growth and density, but also produce a complex variety of simultaneous and interacting processes and functions, for example the [...]

An interesting historical article from mr. Michael E. Smith that assembles archaeological and documentary evidence on the sizes of cities in Mesoamerica on the eve of Spanish conquest.
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This map uses the Gall-Peters projection, rather than the Gall projection usually used by the BBC. All flat, rectangular maps of the Earth contain some distortion of land size, shape and distance between countries. The Peters Projection minimises the distortion to land area, enabling the best comparison between regional populations and the size of the [...]

Andrew McKillop is a writer and consultant on oil and energy economics. Since 1975 he has worked in energy, economic and scientific organizations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. These include the Canada Science Council, the ILO, European Commission, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, the UN Economic and Social Commission for [...]

London claimed one of the World Cities.
Latest results from researchers measuring the world’s “alpha cities” network suggest that established giants London and New York are being joined by Hong Kong and could one day form a global cities triad that will dominate the globe.
“London and New York define a duopoly that constitutes a case apart [...]