The impact of using ICT in society.

Hai….met me again in my third posting…

          For this week we were ask by dearest Datin to go to PTSL and get some information from online databased hosted at the Tun Sri Lanang Library. We were given five topic but we will only choose one topic to search the information and write about our finding. The topic that I’m going to focus in my third posting is about the impact of using ICT in society. ICT have bring a big impact to our daily life now, we can’t denied that much of our work now are fully depend on the using of ICT. We can used it in many ways, it is very useful to finding out information, comunicate from all people in any part of the world and many other things. The used of ict have bring big impact to society  and change us to be alert with the rapid development of ICT.

         The ICT have bring good anmd bad impact to the society. However I will be more focus on the good impact of using ICT.First of all we going to take a look at the online services and employment. The introduction of online services has two effect on employment. Some worker have lost their job because the used of ICT have replacew the need of same types of worker, for example shop assistant and bank cleark. However, the other impact has been an increase the need for workers in more technical aspect of work. By the existance of ICT there are certain job that will be very dangerous for human to do have been replace by using robots. Robot are used because certain task must be performed in the way and with the same degree of acurancy everytime. Moreover, robot can also be used in situation that are unpleasent or dengerous for human to work in such as bomb disposal, working in space, underwater, in mines and working with toxic waste. By using ICT it also help our society to save their time. Before this we have to que to pay our bills and that will take a lot of our time. But by the using of ICT, there is a services like online banking, online transaction and online shopping all the thing can be done in just a second. The used of ICT clearly have provided more leisure time for us. This is because there are sos many activities such as shooping, banking and paying bills can be performed onlinew, most people now have more leisure time as they dont have to spend so much time going to shop or banks. ICT also give impact to our society in economical aspect. With the existance of ICT now our society can just working from their home. This can be call as teleworking, which employees can spending all or some of their time working at home by using their home as an office. One of the benefit of teleworking is that less money has to spend on renting or buying offices. This is because there are some workers have commitments which make it difficult for them to leave theirt home, for example having young families, looking other elderly relatives or having disabilities. With teleworking a housewife now can have their own business that can help them to support their family.

      From all of these we can clearly see that ICT have bring big impact to society in many ways. With the used of ICT our live now have been changing. Our life have be more easier and there are so many thing that can be done just with one click. So, it’s all depennd on us on how we going to used it.  

Refrences:

Telecommunacation, Commercialism, and Boundry Crossing: The impact on youth and families in Trinidad an Tobogo by Ruth J. Palmer. The Journal of Negro Education 2003

Cambridge University Press