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Impact of ICT
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ICT - What is it?
A good way to think about ICT is to consider all the uses of digital technology that already exist to help individuals, businesses and organisations use information.
The concepts, methods and applications involved in ICT are constantly evolving on an almost daily basis. Its difficult to keep up with the changes - they happen so fast
ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. For example, personal computers, digital television, email, robots.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT ON PEOPLE
Job loss
One of the largest negative effects of ICT can be the loss of a person’s job.
This has both economic consequences, loss of income, and social consequences, loss of status and self esteem.
Reduced personal interaction
Being able to work from home is usually regarded as being a positive effect of using ICT, but there can be negative aspects as well. e.g. distance learning and on-line tutorials.
Reduced physical activity
A third negative effect of ICT is that users may adopt a more sedentary lifestyle.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT ON SOCIETY
Probably the largest effect that ICT use has on society is allowing members of society to have greatly increased access to information.
This can have numerous negative effects, such as: causing a digital divide between those who can access information and those who cannot, reducing levels of education and understanding due to the vast amount of incorrect and misleading information that is available causing moral and ethical problems due to the nature of some of the material available.