Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, course: Information System, language: English, abstract: Global Information Systems help us to connect globally with each other to share the information, to boost up technology, to update the stock and market values in the world wide, we can have a broader view of what is happening in the world. The rapid growth of the global information systems has provided the potential for the governments, commercial business, news and media organization, education organization and other service, and has become a technology that may have significant social and economic impact. A part from those positive impacts, the global information system has a number of negative impacts in different countries such as difficult to build international information system, language problem, cultural difference, the digital divide and legal barriers. The Internet is growing rapidly and has aided instantaneous communication across the globe. Today, shopping can be conducted in online hence a boost to the business community. The growth of global Information systems has also led negative impacts that are mostly social and economic. Especially in Africa, it has led to cultural erosion. Most youth of the 21st century want to imitate the western culture and also it has led to the growth of the IT and economic divide.