What is the relation between ICT and development ... how ICT changed our society and our world?

“Relation between ICT (information and communication technology) and development and its role in the development of our society and our world”

Introduction

The striking feature of the world in this century is the difference between the social and economic situations of diverse countries. The main factor behind this is the development problem of inequalities among different nations. To cover the gap between the developments of different communities, ICT is the main ingredient for the economic growth and ICT plays a very important role in the improvement of social conditions. For this, the knowledge of proper and creative usage of ICT is must. ICT is the abbreviation of Information Communications Technology. The terminology, ICT is also known as Information and technology (IT). Other than explaining its abbreviation, the core definition and value of information and communications technology is very esteemed and vast due to its great influence in every field in this modern world.

The applications of information and technology are everywhere around us, and they are continuously evolving on daily basis. Technology, the core component of the term 'information and technology', exists to help every individual, supports businesses and every organization uses information for their proceedings in every aspect. ICT covers any organization, field or any product which stores, retrieves, manipulates, processes, transmits or receives information and digital data of any kind.ICT has affected the education sector all around the world in a great deal, in a very positive way. In this era, the transmission and reception of any sort of data or information is the main component of any field.

No one can expect to have career growth, or no organization can establish itself without knowing the current affairs of their competent and other market. It is must to refer to the entire industry. All the information is managed easily through computers and software .modern computers, networking servers, database management systems are few of the main IT equipment used within any organization these days. To keep pace with the fast growing world, every large company or organization has an IT department operating as its backbone. Storing information, sharing and executing information, processing information, sending information and later retrieving data as necessary are the key and main operations of IT department of any company (Avgerou, 2010).

Discussion

Relation between ICT and development

The relation between ICT and national growth links with the alarming terms of 'digital divide'. Limited availability of ICT, particularly limited internet connectivity is the main hindrance in the development, opportunities of economic growth and standard improvement of the third world nations. The lack of information and communications technology is the main space between the urbanized and still-growing countries according to the world socio-economic indicator, listed in the yearly reports of global advance agencies, such as those from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and World Bank. Many initiatives have been taken to spread awareness of the benefits ICT and also to remedy this discriminating ...