Information Communications Technology

Running head: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
The impact of information and communication technology
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Introduction
This aim of this paper is to provide the impacts of the information and communication
technology including the ethical considerations. Also the paper represents the positive and
negative impacts of the information and communication technology (Baller, Dutta and
Lanvin 2016). This technology bis the extensional version of information technology that
mainly focuses on the communication environments. It includes the combination of the
telecommunication as well as computers and other kinds of systems that helps users to store
and transmit as well as manipulate the information. The information and communication
technology has a great impact in the society. With the help of this technology, the business
process is much easier than the early days. It not only helps in daily lives but also digital
networking field as well as the economic development of nation and also in the educational
area are greatly impacted by this technology (Bannister and Connolly 2014). But it must
include the ethical implications along with the impact of this technology.
Discussion
The information and communication technology is one kind of information
technology that provides the accessing of the information via telecommunication. The main
perspective of this technology is the communication area which includes the wireless
networks, computers, mobile devices as well as the internet (Bloom et al. 2014). There are so
many benefits in this technology. At the earlier time, the information and communication
technology gives a wide range of communication abilities for the human lives. For an
example, during the communication time, people use various technologies like Facebook,
voice over IP, instant messaging to communicate with another person in different countries.
But this modern technology brings an innovative technology by which people can

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communicate with other all over the world like they are staying in the next doors (Dutta,
Geiger and Lanvin 2015). This technology reflects a huge effect in the society.
The information and communication technology has lot of benefits not only the
society but also it effects on people as well as organizations. The overall impacts can be
categorized into two categories such as positive and negative impact. Regarding on people,
some of the positive impacts of this technologies are Easy to access information,
improvement in education as well as innovation of new tools as well as techniques.
With the help of this technology, the accessing of information is much better than
previous days. People can easily communicate each other through instant messaging, voice
over IP (VoIP) (Galliers and Leidner 2014). Also it has brought new prospects for the
entertainments as well as leisure and also people can obtain various goods from the suppliers
across the world by using it.
In the educational field, the improvements can happen through the distance learning
as well as the online tutorials. The innovative ways of learning cam extract from this
technology. The job chances are more flexible than the earlier days with the help of this
technology.
New tools as well as techniques can be easily obtained by using the information and
communication technology (Hilty and Aebischer 2015). The different types of innovative
techniques uses for photo editing purposes and also screen magnifications as well as screen
reading enabling for the blind people.
On organizations, the positive impact of this technology effects on the security
purposes of the organizations. Encryption method that belongs in this technology, helps to
secure the sensitive data from the unauthorised people (Marchewka 2016). Not only this

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issues, the other physical issues like fingerprint as well as facial recognition and iris enlist in
the security purposes of the organizations which are improved by this technology.
On the society, there may have some other impacts like the increment on the
opportunities on educational field, improvement on communication and participation of
people across the world.
In addition to this, there are lots of negative impacts in this technology. The impacts
reflects on the similar perspective such as people, education and also society (Mishra, Akman
and Mishra 2014). On the people, one of the negative impact of this technology is job loss.
This problem occurs due to both the economic aspects including loss of earnings and social
aspects loss of self-respect. Mainly the two technologies of robotics and data processing are
responsible for this impact.
On the area of organization, one of the negative impacts is competition. For some
organizations, it is impossible to compete for the customers as well as other donations,
because it may be lose out for the organizations offering the equal services with lesser
money. Cost is another negative impact by which the organizations bear the extra costs of the
various innovative hardware and software. Because the information and communication
technology brings lots of latest software and hardware that are operated by the specialists.
This extra cost results a loss for the organizations.
On the society, the negative impacts of this technology enlist digital divide. The
information and communication technology bring better improvements in educational field.
For that, the huge cost for education as well as the establishments of the poor students may
have very cost effective.
Moreover, there are some ethical consideration in the information and communication
technology (Schwalbe 2015). The ethical implication focuses on the professional conduct. It