Pros and Cons of ICT

Pros:

-Sharing valuable information and discoveries about health and education.

-Helping people to find support and resources to develop programs and initiatives for common welfare.

-Improving the possibilities to present and commercialize new products through Internet worldwide.

-Enabling people to learn and obtain a degree by means of distance education.

-Providing many different sources of amusement for people of all ages.

-Creating new sources of employment (working from home).

Cons:

-People who do not have enough money cannot have access to Internet or a computer.

-People who do not know how to use technology cannot get its full benefits without external help.

-There is an increasing problem with the lack of strong privacy policies.

-People get absorbed by technology and forget to interact with other persons face to face.

-There are many risks to be a victim of some kind of fraud in sales websites.

-People do not handle technology properly cannot have access to better job positions.

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Information and Communication Technology

Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information [1].

The term ICT is also used to refer to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling or link system [1].

Modern information and communication technologies have created a "global village," in which people can communicate with others across the world as if they were living next door. For this reason, ICT is often studied in the context of how modern communication technologies affect society [2].

Sources
Definition
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology
[2] http://techterms.com/definition/ict

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