Growing Knowledge about Globalization consolidates and grows knowledge about global transactions and develops tools and materials for displaying and transforming data for analysis and presentation by scholars, educators, and policymakers.
Growing Knowledge about Globalization is a cross national, collaborative effort to bring information about global transactions into a virtual, public domain for education, research, and program and policy development. GKG identifies existing data, creates comparable files across time and space, and employs statistical, network, and geographic software to empirically display the structure and dynamics of globalization.
GKG is developing an integrated and comprehensive public use data base about global transactions that (a) can be linked to extant data about localities and (b) supports the production of education materials and research about the history, extent, causes, and consequences of globalization. Second, GKG employs five different venues for displaying and transforming data for analysis: a) reference series; b) conferences and research papers; c) case studies linking global processes to local outcomes and vice versa; d) online interactive website; and, e) statistical and data products available for downloading and manipulation. |
