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Relevance of Information Communication Technology

RELEVANCE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

Rationality is not only a tool given to man to appraise situations but to adjust lifestyles and solve the riddles confronting man in his quest for ultimate meaning of reality. Of all the issues challenging man in this contemporary epoch, the exploits of information technology has gained a wide audience as it takes a centre stage. The universe is awash with its tidal wave as it continues to feel its attendant breakthrough. This trend precipitates thorough effectiveness and efficient method in the field of communication so much so that telecommunication systems and devices have triumphed in transmitting electronic or optical signals across long distance.  It is the use of computers and software to manage information. Its task is to store, protect, process, transmit and retrieve information as necessary. This is facilitated through the use of computer servers, database management systems and cryptography. It has unveiled the channel through which people around the world access information and communicate freely even from remote areas and enhances inter-spatial communication.

EXCURSUS

The information technology and computer revolution hold out hopes for people to get connected and they exact tremendous educational effects. They add tonic to life as a fruit of this particular human endeavour. Information technology has become a tool with which man adjust and adapt himself to nature in order to communicate effectively. It serves as a key medium for delivering news, data, information and entertainment. The emergence of information technology is quite phenomenal as it scores a strategic point in cosmic communication. The ICT forms a strong link in the chains of events that made possible the remarkable transformation of the outlook of the world and shaping it towards a well anchored development. The world is thus bound cohesively and shrinked into a global village through the organ of globalization thereby closing up the digital divide. What derives from this is the recognition of the impact and relevance of ICT in various aspect of human life which incubates it.

            Over the past twenty years, its prevalence has dramatically increased so that it is now part of nearly every aspect of our daily life. Our socio-economic condition has defected to information technology in order to exploit its use to fight its way in reducing poverty, improves living conditions and provides a firm anchorage for the stability of the society. It has continued to gain prominence in enhancing the course of constructive development. Various facets of socio-economic life bears testimony to the giant strides taken by the ICT towards effective all-round development.

            The combined synergy of the Millennium Development Goals and the widely used internet in industrialized countries led to a germination of investment in ICT infrastructures and programmes in most developing nations. This brings information on development issues like health, education, agricultural extension into poor communities. It accounts for one of the factors that saw poor countries developing and recording advancement in digital literacy and e-awareness. This spells development for these regions. A good example of ICT on development are African farmers getting better market price information and therefore not falling to the predatory instinct of unfair crops buy-out  people. Fighting of corruption has assumed a new dimension, relaying of information and entertainment have been greeted with advancement owing largely to the telling effects of ICT.

            Information technology rolls out easy basis for visualizing the effects of urban growth and transformation considering the factors that exert forces on the formation of communities; such factors include topographic conditions, zoning constraints, land use patterns and economic factors. ICT helps orchestrates the society towards considering multiple options in their planned and unplanned growth by providing information.

EFFECTS OF ICT ON EDUCATION

            The increasing pace with which ICT make sweeping changes has had a profound effect on the way people live, work, interact and learn world-wide. This new and emerging technologies challenge its traditional counterpart in the field of teaching, learning and the way in which the course of education is directed. Its celebrated effect is appreciated in all curriculum areas. Easy and rapid world-wide communication have engendered increasing access to ICT in the home, at work, in the school making learning a life-long activity in which it acts as an umpire for the evaluation of the learning process itself. This challenges assimilation and assessment skills. A provision for learning resources is procured to enhance learning ability and teaching skills. Audio-visual education becomes a possibility, widening the horizon of learning. ICT provides immediacy to information. These days, the society is replete with challenges, ICT imparts knowledge very fast and one can be educated anywhere and anytime.

            Distant learning, collaborative learning, multimedia approach to education where audio-visual devices are used to reflect development in both technology and educational process. The availability of information and data and on-line library are secured for users. Library catalogues and bibliographical databases are available on-line and on compact disc. Access to these databases is available in the home in some places.

ICT ON GLOBALIZATION

With the idea of globalization therefore, it appears our world destiny is tied together. (Enwisdomization Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, June 2000-Sept. 2001, p.28). Globalization is fuelled by the feat of ICT. It tries to answer the prophetic message of ICT in establishing programmes that will see to a fair sharing of the sciento-technological spoils in our unitary globe. It suggests the knitting together of societies into an organic fabric and makes the world economy a single inter-dependent system. What proceeds from this is the destruction of national barriers that stand on the way of global prosperity. Bridges are built where there is an inter-national lacuna. Cross pollination of ideas and information is directly consequent upon this technological elixir. Obliteration of prejudice, subscription to other cultures, becomes an embellishing nuance of the exploits of ICT bellied in globalization.

ICT ON BUSINESS

            The extension of its influence in the business sector, in keeping with experience, have urged investors to answer with a fiat, the demands of ICT in business. It is a welcome panacea in that it brings to limelight the computerization of business, thus streamlining the machinations of business which crystallizes in the generation of productivity, rise to profits which means better pay and less strenuous working conditions, wealth creation and distribution and arming this area with an economic software with which the world economic programme is re-written and brought to a unified system. Here the roles of IMF and World Bank come to play as organs serving us with the nectar on which the cosmic economy perches. The relevance of ICT in business facilitates transaction across long distances at a supersonic speed. Closely tied to this is the excellent breakthrough recorded in the use technological inventions like  telephone, telegraph, fax machines, visio-phone, and the internet which has made possible e-commerce. Computers and communication systems provide instant information on the state of accounts and provide fast transfer of transaction between branches of the same bank and between different banks. The introduction of information systems has made for an efficient brokerage and share services for the private sector. Details of world wide stock market prices and indices appear in detail in the financial press and are available directly from computers. Newspapers, such as The Financial Times are typeset and transmitted to the various parts of the world to keep us abreast of our economic realities.

EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION

                    The map drawn by information technology does not contain its merits only. There are demerits that arouse fundamental questions which put its foundation to test. The ICT is made to be at the service of man. Here, certain fundamental questions stand up in their order of logical importance: what are the motivations for the emergence of the ICT? Why does man need it? How can it be used to respond to the needs of man adequately? A sound hermeneutical exposition of these deduces two inter-dependent fundamental – values and meanings. These axiological precipitates draw the limit in which ICT can be fully exercised. A shallow adherence to this feeds the pest that eats the flesh of the society. ICT is capable of enhancing or destroying the individual. Exposure to some vices and social crimes are at their avalanche on the Net for subscribers, internet fraud and their ilk. The use of communication devices to perpetrate heinous crimes, children being exposed to obscene movies at home. All these have a way of tearing the society they are meant to edify apart. This is an onerous task but it calls on the effort of all to clip the tentacles of ICT for a better use in the future since all we can do to influence the future is to act now. These actions are necessarily based on our present interest, values, concern and capabilities. This caveat will necessarily bring ICT to its full mission.

            Notwithstanding the limitations greeting the ICT project, its salvific character tries to liberate humanity from drudgery, communication and information eclipse and set the forum for a peaceful international co-existence through effective communicating. It is still a real source of information to inspire an exhaustive exploration of the communication world. New measures of evaluation are under development which would help define better the role of information technology in its wider context.

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