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The Impact Of Information Technology On Developing Countries

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Diwas Puri
Professor Richard Glass
CIS-203 HN
Date: 15th December, 2014
The Impact of Information Technology in the Developing Countries
Information technology is the use of different systems to store, transfer and retrieve data for meaningful purposes. It has come a long way since the first mechanical computers were developed by Charles Babbage in 1822. Today, there are roughly 25 billion devices connected to the internet compared to merely 500 million in 2003, which means that we have indeed come a long way in terms of how much information technology we use (Evans). It has helped both the developed and the developing countries alike in many ways, although it was only received fairly well in the developed countries. Nevertheless, …show more content…

These goals might vary from person to person, institution to institution and from country to country. A father living in the remote part of the Himalayas might use a telephone to call his son studying in America. On the grand scale, a country might use its array of communication systems such as telephone and internet lines to make the communications between their institutions and various organizations smooth and efficient. Information technology in the developing world, though fairly diluted than those in the developed worlds, vary a lot depending upon where it is being used and for what purpose it is being used. However, there is a significant contrast in how developed countries and the developing countries use it for various purposes. This can be inferred from the fact that developed countries such as Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark have more than 80% of their population who can access the internet. On the other hand, countries such as Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Congo and Cambodia whose economy is not so good, have less than 1% of their population who can actually access the internet (Carr).
The economy of the countries that have higher internet usage are generally better than those that have lesser internet usage. For example, the economies of South Korea, United Kingdom and Australia who have high rate of digital technology adoption are very healthy. In contrast, the

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