Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Geography, Politics, Economies, and War

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“Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has reduced geography and physical
distance in politics, economics and war and has reduced territory less important than in any
previous historical epoch”.
In the present era, the use of information and communication technology has been
enhanced. But it has been noted that it has impacted geography and also physical distance in
politics, economies and war. ICT is known as one of the popular sources in context to
technologies and it provide proper access to the information with the help of telecommunication.
The sources like internet, mobiles phones and other medium of communication are used in ICT
(TechTarget, 2018). So, the discussion in this paper will be on the concept of ICT which will be
related with geography, politics, economies and war.
In context to politics, geography and physical distance has been reduced as through
information and communication technologies it can be easy for the people to interact to the large
mass of audience in an easy manner. Geography and physical distance in geography in context to
politics has been impacted. If politics is taken into consideration it can be stated that ICT has
impacted the overall activities in both positive and negative manner. Through ICT it is examined
that the reach has been enhanced; now different parties in politics can reach the large audience in
less time and also with less cost (Spiekermann et al., 2015). Through internet or through
messages the parties can share their messages with the large audience. In 2008, U.S presidential
campaign was done in which the campaign of Obama used Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
This source assisted in securing the historic victory of the president Barak Obama (Ollo-López
and Aramendía-Muneta, 2012).
In 2012, the Obama’s campaign encouraged small donations using the social media and
mobile platform. They enhanced approximately $1 Billion in the overall contribution. The
presidential elections also showcased the significance of the big data and the campaign was done
state by state election data and also by considering the opinion of the public (Sørensen, 2016).
Also, internet offers a platform to the citizens to mobilize and voice their opinions which also
being improvisation in the human rights. Information technology techniques are influencing the
political events on the global platform and also it has offered welfare to the individuals. Social
media is considered as the tools that reconnect the citizens with the overall process of democracy
in context to both the political parties. YouTube and Twitter are the major tools of
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communication which are considered by the governments and dissidents like it has been
observed in Libyan and Syrian (Kleinsman and Buckley, 2015).
But in context to ICT, the negative has been also observed on the overall framework of
politics. The Facebook Cambridge analytical data scandal was one of the political scandals
which took place in 2018 (Think, 2018). In this it has been noted that Cambridge analytica have
leaked the personal information of the large number people from their Facebook profiles and it
was done without the consent of the people and the information was used for the political
purposes. In this case, 50 million of the Facebook profile information was taken by the British
Firm (Think, 2018). It is also considered the data brokerage communication with assisted the
election of the recent US president Donald Trump (Guardian, 2018). The information which was
extracted by the British company assisted Donald Trump for getting votes for the post of the
President in United States. So, this was the case which took place and has negatively impacted
the large audience. This incident took place with the help of information and communication
technology. So, in context to political parties, ICT has negative as well as positive impact and
therefore it can be stated that it has reduced the geography and physical distance (Isaak and
Hanna, 2018).
In relation to economies, it has been observed that with the help if ICT, the overall
process of trading is simplified. Through information and communication technology, the
opportunity is with the companies to enhance their trading activities. It can be stated that
digitalization has focused on the overall growth in productivity in the US economy and also it
can be easy for the companies to manage the entire activities by using the concept of ICT
(CompTia, 2018). With the net impact of digitalization it has been seen that there is substantially
enhancement in the productivity and also it creates trillions of dollars of new wealth. In the
market the technology economy has an important role as it measure the overall market economy.
The largest index in the market is of Dow and Jones industrial average and S&P 500 have
changed. The tech powerhouse like Apple and Amazon stocks are valued more. Apple covers a
large market share as they focus on considering information and communication technology
(Bloom et al., 2014).
In context to information and technology economy, it has been seen that IT companies
are spending their higher volume in which the activities are related to data centers, networks and
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