Pros of Using ICT in The Contemporary World

Pros of using ICT in the Contemporary World
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Creation of new jobs
- The rising demand of IT professionals across businesses is creating new
opportunities every day. Several emerging economies all over the world
are now setting new records by strengthening their competence in this
field. A greater number of people are showing interest in jobs like
computer programming, system analysis, testing, software and
hardware development and web application design.
- According to an article made by forbes, 2 ICT related jobs are included in
the seven top in-demand jobs for 2018, these are Application software
developer and information security analyst.
Information Technology and Education
- The application of information technology in education has significantly
changed the traditional process of teaching and learning. Gone are the
days of classrooms with blackboards. Today all educational institutions
are imparting knowledge by using various modern gadgets. Students
with access to the internet have a whole world of research material at
their disposal, which helps them grasp concepts efficiently and without
wasting any time.
- UP open university, PUP open university, Central Luzon state univ,
Pangasinan state open univ, Benguet state univ, western Visayas state
univ, cebu tech univ, holy angel univ, are some colleges that offers Online
courses in the Philippines.
Information technology and the health sector
- The use of information technology has helped in improved patient care
all over. Patients using the internet can now communicate with expert
physicians from their home via virtual healthcare application systems.
Also, tele-medicines, electronic health records and health grids have
resulted in a greater impact on delivering efficient and quality health care
to people across the globe.
Advancement of economies
- Since information technology has made businesses more efficient, the
overall buying and selling activities are no longer restricted by time and
distances. Companies from different parts of the world can now
interconnect with each other conveniently. Today, every local as well as
international has its presence online and caters to a much larger
audience beyond its border
- According to Blue corona, a marketing company, Studies show that
between 70-80% of people research a company online BEFORE visiting
the small business or making a purchase with them.
- Also, Email, website, and social media are the top three marketing tools
used by small businesses: 54% email, 51% website, 48% social media.
Communicating news
- Wireless communication has revolutionized the ways in which we
communicate news broadcast. Today, it takes less than a few seconds
for a new story to propagate from one part of the world to the other.
- Online magazines provide an eco-friendly solution to the hard copy
magazine and are easily downloadable through a website or app store.
These major changes to print media since the late 1990s has changed the
way news companies produce and distribute their information to the
world.
Entertainment
- ICT has impacted entertainment and leisure by enhancing the different
ways in which we casually spend our time. With the use of these
technologies, they ways in which we can entertain ourselves has
dramatically increased.
- Music, Arts, Video Games, Social Media, Television and Movies.
Effective Communication
- Information technology has definitely made communication cheaper,
quicker and far more superior than ever before. Sending e-mails, video
calling through Skype, sending text messages through various online
apps allows people sitting miles away to connect with each other
instantaneously. Businesses are reaping maximum benefit from this and
employees distributed over a wide area can now remain connected
through internal chat rooms or open source applications.
Globalization
- Information technology has removed the physical barriers between
nations and connected them through their shared ideas and
opportunities. The advent of social media has made interactions easy and
the use of Facebook, Twitter and all other social networking sites has
drawn culturally different people to communicate with one another.
People on the social media are now becoming ‘global’ citizens!
- According to statistical data, PH has now 67 million internet users and
4.021 billion internet users in the world.
- ICTs encompasses the digital technologies and infrastructure that have
facilitated globalization processes.

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