Define Global Information Systems (GIS). What are some of the challenges to the success of GIS?
A GIS is an information system that works across national borders, facilitates communication between headquarters and subsidiaries in other countries, and incorporates all the technologies and applications found in a typical information system to store, manipulate, and transmit data across cultural and georaphic locations. Some challenges to the success of GIS is lack of standardization, cultural differences, diverse regulatory practices, poor telecommunication infrastructures, and lack of skilled analysts and programmers. A more subtle obstacle to GIS development is the unwillingness to delegate control of information systems to host countries.
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