Positive and Negative Impact of ICT in Business, Society, and Culture

This document explores the positive and negative impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in business, society, and culture. It discusses the benefits of ICT in business operations and communication, as well as the potential risks and ethical responsibilities. It also examines how ICT has transformed education and cultural activities, and the challenges it poses for society. The document provides insights into the role of ICT in shaping the modern world.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:-...................................................................................................................................2
The positive impact of ICT in business purpose:-.......................................................................2
Negative impact:-.........................................................................................................................3
The positive impact of ICT in Society purpose:-.........................................................................4
Negative impact:-.........................................................................................................................5
The positive impact of ICT in Cultural purpose:-.......................................................................6
Negative purpose:-.......................................................................................................................6
Ethical responsibilities of modern ICT equipment:-...................................................................7
Conclusion:-.....................................................................................................................................9
References:-...................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:-
Information and communication technology is one of the basic needs of modern society.
ICT mentions to technologies that deliver access to evidence through broadcastings systems.
Information communication mainly includes the wireless network, phone mediums and internet.
ICT is the mechanisms and substructure that allow conventional computing system.
Communication technology’s position to financial progress and commercial growth has been so
enormous. ICT also supports sweeping changes in society. ICT mainly tries to helps to reduce
the non-verbal communication. The digitization of Information, the increasing use of the
internet and the developing worldwide network together have managed to new levels of crime.
The unethical person can access electronic servers to steal cash and manipulate the private
details. There is some difference between information technology, communication technology
and information communication technology (Tarutė and Gatautis, 2014). Information technology
is including mainly computational software or electronics hardware systems. In other hand
internet protocol, memory locations or systems servers all are the part of communication
technology. But ICT is the combinations of both Information and communication technology.
All types of electronics and computational communications are part of ICT.
The positive impact of ICT in business purpose:-
The businessperson can process their business records and even investigate opponent
business presentation. After the investigation, every businessperson quickly changes its
commercial strategy and also improve their productivity. With earlier processing times, a
businessperson should be capable of carrying out the compulsory modifications. Thanks to

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several improvements in technology, and the reality that the price of data dispensation has
disappeared down. It is currently probable to implement the most critical data set and estimate
future trends.
With devoted social media stages, several technological tools to connect with them.
Business officials should be able to enhance business interactivity and link with potential clients
for more improvement.
Communications between productions are now quicker because the customer no longer
needs to guide a letter which receipts about 20 to 30 hours (Wu et al., 2015). They can send an
immediate announcement for a portion of the charge which keeps costs for product distribution.
This system only happens for the enhancement of Information and communication technology.
This technology has made it potential for business administrations to use the electronic
message in their day to day actions. Various shops now sell online as well as on marketing
premises. These are the reason for business increment and authorizing small businesses.
Numerous technical tools permit the businessman to collaborate and located with others
very quickly immediately (Majchrzak et al., 2016). With a systematic interface and suitable to
navigate a website, an official should be capable to instantaneously transmission the large
volumes of records and monitor work done in real time.
Negative impact:-
Security is the most significant negative sides for ICT in business purpose. When the
proper use of the servers and computer network, then they put himself at risk from a virus attack.
There are numerous online safety threats out there, and the system can be affected by the

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malware attacks. If the servers are affected by the viruses, then many unethical users quickly
access the official network and try to manipulate the Information.
Whenever any business organization started a modern technology in the business sector,
officials would frequently have to spend many days for training purposes. If the employees are
focusing on the training and learning, they cannot concentrate the business production. In this
way, the business rate can be reducing (Wang et al., 2016). Cost is the most significant factor for
applying the new technology in office premises. If this technology is not successful, then it can
be an essential loss for business officials.
Server failure and technical issues are a vital part of ICT. A business official cannot
observe the timing of mechanical failure. Suppose any online transaction is under process then
this failure has occurred, so it is very much dangerous for both customer and officials. Up to date
maintenance is the one way for reducing the machinery fault.
The positive impact of ICT in Society purpose:-
There are several points for describing the positive effect on the organization. Some years
ago technology did not improve. For this reason, two humans cannot communicate immediately.
Physical communication is the most significant time-consuming matter. But thanks to the
technical enhancement, the person easily relate to each other. At this moment, human beings
efficiently use social platforms and mobile platforms. This communication is mainly less time-
consuming. According to the survey, a large number of people worldwide use social media
platforms for communication purposes.
Proper education is essential for every society. ICT always helps to improve the
education structure (Noe et al., 2017). At this moment, many procedures are using for training.
Students can easily access many types of researcher’s resources and study materials. It is not

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necessary to go to the library and collect the study books. At this moment almost every book has
E-book facilities. The learners quickly access internet library systems (Sánchez, Cortijo and
Javed, 2014) By the help of the internet, the student collects many types of study video and
details descriptions very quickly.
Society and technology are made for each other because if techniques are enhancing, then
the person also updated. For this technology, citizens become more knowledgeable and skilful.
The citizens have absorbed the device handling process and learn computational method very
correctly. For the help of ICT, the ordinary citizen becomes the emerging citizen in very quickly.
Negative impact:-
At this moment, most of the modern citizen cannot stable without the internet connection.
15 to 16 hours in a day most of the citizen are busy there communication media like social media
or telephonic media. As a result, modern citizens are an addict to the internet and communication
technology. This addiction is very much dangerous for human health and mind also.
At this moment, all types of activities are completing through internet communications.
Even Modern citizen cannot go marketing because online marketing is very much prevalent at
this moment. The citizen also ordered their foods through the internet in a fraction of second.
The people have become lazy for the lack of physical exercise (Mishra, Akman and Mishra,
2014). At this moment, the citizen is forgotten face to face communication and gestures. They
believe in mobile message communications or telephonic communication. The result of this
problem is the people become selfish and also they cannot spread their thought in openly.
In upper discussions is the reason for the human health problem. If the person is not
physically communicating with another, so they are suffering from some diseases and also they
are affected for the Laziness. Especially the learner always busy with their computer systems or

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internet then there eye, brain and ear can be changed. Without non-verbal communication,
citizens cannot improve their physical and mental activities.
The positive impact of ICT in Cultural purpose:-
IT allows data access from anyplace. Thes can elevate the level of learning and
consciousness for many people, particularly in the village. It can support to spread immediate
messaging, which also enhances human knowledge (Webster, 2014). The user quickly knows
about the different culture with the help of internet and communication technology. After
observing this culture's activities, then they maintain the value of this. At this moment, a
significant number of person store different types of ancient pictures or showpieces because they
try to respect different culture and art (Martin, 2017). In a modern time internet permits the
people to take participate in cultural actions like generating, considering the content, distributing
the artistic content, viewing films and videos and live streaming performances. Many Cultural
institutes and other providers of aesthetic services are regulating their services to original
technical apparatuses.
Negative purpose:-
The thoughts of time, space, distance are misplacing their conventional significances.
Unluckily, these profits can also be observed as their weaknesses. Most who maintain that the
internet is destroying culture? Some internet deliverables are not so much appropriate for the
children. Children are trying to copy this, and it is very much harmful to the kid's culture
(Anderson et al.,2014). Some of the countries are adopting a modern lifestyle and change their
old and ancient habits. They are using advanced technology and get some facilities also, but
unfortunately, these countries quickly forget their own cultures and practices.

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Ethical responsibilities of modern ICT equipment:-
Study and revolution in developing technologies can have excessive profits but also raise
social and ethical doubts. There are some ethical issues related to Information communication
technology (Sampson and Osborn, 2015). If the computer user uses their operating system very
carefully, then they quickly recover all types of ethical issues. There is some example of
emerging technology which is using by ICT. Robotics, Cloud computing, artificial intelligence,
augmented reality, Human-computer interconnection is the example of Information and
communication technology. The relation to social and human values symbolizes the mechanisms
of the ICT structure. There is a portion of human activity systems (Pardo and Siemens, 2014).
When Technical situation is measured, and the difficulty that arises in the cross between humans
technology and communications. Morals and ethical reflections are significant aspects of where
to end up in the distance between struggle and agreement. The relationship between morality and
communication creates it suitable to reflect how humans communicate to ICT as broadcasting
since it affects how performers understand direct contact and indirect communication also.
Ethics in ITC is vital because it generates a principle of faith, duty, honesty and
superiority in the resource procedures. Ethics also encourages confidentiality, the privacy of
evidence, unlawful access to networks, helping to stop struggle and duplicity. The codes of
morals confirm that ICT resources are using for merely official purposes (Capurro,2018). The
rules prevent distributing of access freedoms, such as keywords and pins, among users. This
process helps to keep the systems from harmful cyber-attacks. Proper Morals also promotes
admiration in the use of ICT. These are because they avoid operators from rejecting others access
to server networks. Morals prevent illegal removal, replication or alteration of secure data like

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emails and private files. ICT delivers efficient and more comfortable storing and recovery of data
.but at the similar time suffers from confidentiality of copyrighted resources, records, software,
composition, and audio-visual. Internet delivers immediate access to all categories of valuable
evidence in very effortlessly but at the same time affected by downloading, illegal uploading,
stealing and copying. More prominently ICT is not bounded in between software engineers or
researchers. Familiar people also use the ICT system, so they are also affected by ethical issues.
The internet is a worldwide technology network made up of several lesser contributing
systems to maintain the open conversation of evidence among several kinds of individuals and
administrations all over the universe. This technology plays a progressively significant part in
diagnosis and medicines. In a modern-day ICT in treatment is not only used for storage,
showing, processing and communicating patient records instead have given increase to totally
new tools such as CT scan, ultrasound, MRI, PET. These tools help to investigate the internal
body without operation — the new medicinal methodologies where are massive potentials for
analysis and technical exploration (Laczniak and Murphy , 2019). So ethics is essential in this
medical background also. The unethical public can manipulate the test results, which is very
much dangerous for the patient.
Ethics of communication technology and indeed the moral concept, in general, has
characteristically been worried about the normative investigation of separate deliberate action.
The standard themes of processer ethics such as attacks of privacy, misuse of individual
Information to provide themselves well to such enquiry . Because administrations and
circumstances are deliberate representatives too issues of rule, regulation, and commercial
concern have also been reasonably approachable to this technique. The critical information
communication skills are analyzed to display a level of hesitation regarding results. Types of

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machinery like affective computing and microelectronics that enable observing or other methods
of gathering and treating data include threats resulting from capacity and clarification errors.
Investigation and modernization in developing technologies can have excessive profits but also
increase ethics and public anxieties — the ethical concerns connected to the basis of emerging
information and communication technologies. There are different types of ethical issues related
to ICT (Keller and Heiko, 2014). There are some categories which are directly connecting to ICT
and morality. First is the personal impact. Individual impact mainly issues collection process.
The computer operators collect several issues that have expectable significances for
separate human beings. Human identity, privacy policy and personal autonomy is the part of this
Individual impact. The second part is the concepts of moral issues. In this section, the primary
responsibility of the operator is to identify the scientific and logical issues of ICT's future
equipment. If the operator determines the fault of the systems, then they quickly solve this. Next
relevant section is security. If any organizations or any individual do not have any secure server,
then it is very much tricky to run the process. ICTs are significant contributors to safety. For
instance, by allowing progressive investigation, some universal disadvantages are also put
onward in moral evaluates. Last important part is responsibility. Primary responsibility is to save
their own systems network from any types of viruses and harmful threats. If the unethical person
can access some IP or server, then it is very much complicated to recovering these difficulties.
Conclusion:-
ICT is a very emerging process, and familiar people also use this technology very
quickly. At this moment, every person tries to know the basic descriptions of Information and
communication technology. There are some significant impact and also harmful impact there.

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The human being uses this ICT technique in every purpose like educational purpose, commercial
purpose, personal purpose. This process is very less time consuming, but addiction is the most
significant issues of these systems. For business enhancement, officials are easily using these
systems because this system is very much modern and user friendly. But ICT techniques is not
familiar for all of the officials are not knows about this technique, then it is the most significant
loss for the business. There are some ethical issues also there. If the officials or user are not more
careful for their network server, then the unethical person quickly hacked their server and
manipulated it. By chance, any emerging technology of ICT has been hack by the hacker then
first try to identify these issues logically later try to resolve it. Every day technologies are
enhancing, and modern citizen works to improve their technical quality. If all the person
strengthens their technical skill and handles their system server very carefully. Then it is very
much helpful for our society.

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