Impact of Information Technology in Indonesia

Determining the Impact of Information Technology in Indonesia

Determining the Impact of Information Technology in Indonesia

Introduction

The modern era is an era fully equipped with all round technologies in every aspect of life. The modern era technology provides it viewers and users of technology with real-time working of every technology where as the preceding technologies had a certain lag present between the real event and the outcome which the user experience. The future technologies will be challenging the human race by capturing future. Few of the recent technologies have played a vital role in modifying the lives of human being which include the broadcast media of television and radio, super fast transportation vehicles such as air planes, cars and bullet trains but no tool has influenced human lives as the internet and the tools of Information Technology.

The use of information technology varies from zone to zone, country to country and city to city. The dependency of information technology depends upon various factors, out of which the most important factor is the current development status of a country, whether it is a developed country or a developing country, similarly a vital role is played by the human resource present in a country. The factors of human skills are their knowledge, education, and skills to use and innovate information technology. One of the key factors is the presence of robust existing infrastructure of telephone systems and telecommunication systems. Telecommunication system includes the wireless technology and Voice over IP technology.

The key role of Information Technology has been to ease the lives of human beings at individual levels by making their daily tasks easier, for e.g. accounts software comes with basic formulas top directly calculate the values and similarly sensor based cameras help the security teams to monitor zones of high alert, however, the aspect of analysis in this particular paper is to observe the macro level impact Information Technology has played in the development of Indonesia as a country. In this regard we will be monitoring the micro level uses of Information technology (Enos, & Yun, 1997, p. 56 - 66).

Uses of ICT

ICT has various uses but if we categorize them into three main categories as defined by Duncombe and Heeks (1999) the categories are as follows; production control, data processing and business communication. The use of information technology in the following categories is defines below.

Business Communication

An extensive research has been conducted upon the role of ICT in the business communication industry. It is evident from these researches that ICT plays a major role in business communication. It has changed the existing rules of conducting business in all aspects. The dynamics have changed significantly since the emergence of Information Technology in business communication. The most vital use of ICT in business communication is to extract information via internet as input for making decisions. Decision making is directly dependent upon the information provided by information technology. An e.g. is to use the statistical information provided by the government for launching ...