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Stop and ask yourself what you think the word mobility refers to. At a recent meeting of business entrepreneurs, an improvised
survey was done on what the attendees understood by the term mobility. Without exception, the responses where circumscribed to road transportation or cell phone use, unaware as to the magnitude of mobility as a phenomenon
of societal and economic transformation.
This became an opportunity for BEST members to gauge their businesses against an increasingly mobile world and to share the findings in this issue of BEST Magazine. In this issue we will provide food for thought on the understanding of the omni-presence of mobility as an engine of the modern world, and within that framework, the members of BEST will illustrate the many ways mobility impacts businesses, professions and occupations, the workplace and every day life.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines mobility as “the quality or state of being mobile of movable”. The Cambridge U.K. dictionary provides a more grounded definition of mobility as “the ability to move freely or be easily moved”. In a literal sense, mobility speaks to the movement by individuals or the causing of the movement of things or goods. It applies equally to the trade of goods, the exchange of information, the change in residence of individuals, the ability of handicapped people to physically deploy themselves, the mobility of international capitals, the transfer of skills of foreign-trained individuals, the utilization of skills offered by migrant populations as well as to upward societal movement to a better standard of living.
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