Role of Information Technology on the development

Role of Information Technology on the development 

Information technology (IT) is a technology which uses computers to gather, process, store, protect, and transfer information. Today, it is common to use the term Information and communications technology (ICT) because it is unimaginable to work on a computer which is not connected to the network (Rendulić Dario Ilija, 2011[i])

IT has been playing a great role in the development of economy, education, health and medical science and knowledge base in India.

Role of Information Technology

1.      Indian Economic development in global market economy.

2.      Education system in India has been developing and progressing due to information technology. Information technology is one of the reasons of academic growth and scientific development of Indian education institutions particularly universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs, Medical colleges and others.

3.      Health sector and medical science have progressed enormously in recent time in India. People are becoming aware about various diseases and the measures of cure through IT. For example family planning programme is the most essential issue of development of population and health of the society in India. The awareness regarding the need of family planning has been possible because of wide spread and well developed IT in India.

4.      Knowledge of the people is not limited to the book or in particular place. Various newspapers, journals, websites, Apps and TV channels are helping people to gather information and subsequently leading to acquire the knowledge. There is no bar of place and time in acquiring knowledge in today’s society.

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[i] Rendulić Dario Ilija 92011), ITdesk.info – project of computer e-education with open access, Open Society for Idea Exchange (ODRAZI), Zagreb

Author of the essay is M Hasan Laskar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya. He is author and founder of You Tube channel “Sociology for Life”. He is also the editor of this Blog “Sociological Study”.