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Online published on 20 August, 2018.
Society is nothing if it does not include human being and all developments and innovations which come into existence for him. ICT is a premier area which made man as speedy man. Information technology is "the use of man made tools for the collection, generation, communication, recording, remanagement and exploration of information. It includes those applications and commodities, by which information is transferred, recorded, edited, stored, manipulated or disseminated". Information technology as a revolution has penetrated almost all fields of human activities, thus transforming economic and social life. UNDP (2001) asserts that even if sustainable economic growth facilitates the creation and diffusion of useful innovations, technology is not only the result of growth but can also be used to support growth and development. ICTs are credited with the ability to transform. And deep and significant changes are expected from their widespread use in the world. From this stand point Human beings can take maximum advantage of the new technologies even if major challenges remain. These challenges include adapting ICTs to local conditions and usage in developing countries, and allowing each country understand those innovations and adjust them to their own developmental needs.
Therefore, development in society or country depends on the country's capacity to create wealth to significantly reduce poverty and to raise its capacity to create wealth at a sustainable level. In June 1996, the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology Development (UNCSTD) in collaboration with IDRC proposed five development indicators that focused on the improvement of the quality of life: education, health, income, governance, and technology. If we consider these five as key indicators of development for any country, ICTs can be socially beneficial only if they contribute to eradication of poverty higher income, improved health and education, better use and more equitable sharing of resources, and raising participation in the decision-making processes (and in this regard, access to information is crucial).
ICTs have been the basis for human existence from time immemorial and this has driven man to continuously seek ways to improve the processing of information and communicating such information to one another irrespective of distance and on a real-time basis. Surviving in the information age depends on access to national and global information networks. ICTs are the bedrock for the survival and development of any nation in a rapidly changing global environment, and it challenges us to devise initiatives to address a host of issues such as reliable infrastructure, skilled human resources, open government, and other essential issues of capacity building which is strictly the matter of society. In the present paper an endeavor has been made to evaluate the effect of ICT in conventional society which could be modern by it or we can examine this fact that any society can change its conventional shape by the emergence of technology like ICT.
ICT, revolution, innovations, empowerment, challenges
