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Workgroup Leaders:
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Final Report
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Angene Wilson, Community Leader
Bill Wilson, Facilitator
Lisa Deffendall, Project Coordinator
Grace Evensen, Staff Leader
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Project Headquarters
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Why Consider Connecting to the World?
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"From out there it really is 'one world,'" wrote Astronaut Frank Borman of Apollo 8 in 1968.
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In the 21st century, globalization – the increasingly intense interaction of individuals, nations, companies, organizations – is a fact of life. Some say we live in a global village. Thomas Friedman writes that we live in a "flat world" and asserts that our kids are going to have to compete and collaborate on that flat playing field (flattened largely because of technology) with new players all over the world in innovation and discovery.
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During the 1990s Kentucky had the fourth highest rate of export growth among all 50 states. On a per-capita basis, Kentucky is a top-ten state in terms of exports and the only state in the top ten without a major port of entry or border with Canada or Mexico. Canada is our largest foreign market, then Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Mexico.
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