Information and Communications Technology

Thursday, March 19, 2015

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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