report on Ict and Poverty

2. (INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY)
IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT
INCLUDES ANY COMMUNICATION
DEVICE OR APPLICATION.
EXAMPLES: RADIO, TELEVISION,
CELLULAR PHONES, COMPUTER AND
NETWORK HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE, SATELLITE SYSTEMS.

3. POSITIVE EFFECT ON THE SOCIETY AND
ON PEOPLE
a. increasing opportunities for
education
b. improving communication
c. allowing people to
participate in a wider, even
worldwide, society
d. new tools, new opportunities

4. NEGATIVE IMPACT OF ICT
ON SOCIETY and on PEOPLE
causing a digital
divide between those
who can access
information and those
who cannot,

5.  reducing levels of
education and
understanding due to the
vast amount of incorrect
and misleading
information that is
available causing moral
and ethical problems due
to the nature of some of

6. Job loss

7.  Manual operations
being replaced by
automation. e.g. robots
replacing people on an
assembly line.

8.  Job export. e.g.
Data processing
work being sent to
other countries
where operating
costs are lower.

9. Multiple workers being replaced by
a smaller number who are able to do
the same amount of work. e.g. A
worker on a supermarket checkout
can serve more customers per hour
if a bar-code scanner linked to a
computerized till is used to detect
goods instead of the worker having
to enter the item and price manually

10. REDUCED PERSONAL
INTERACTION
 Most people need some
form of social interaction
in their daily lives and if
they do not get the chance
to meet and talk with other
people they may feel
isolated and unhappy.

11. REDUCED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

13. Policing-Crime
CCTV camera, GPRS system,
using database for finding criminals'
information are some unique thing
which can not be possible without
the blessing of IT. In common days
police uses GPRS to track
someone's car, mobile phone if it
has been stolen. Police uses CCTV
camera to detect criminals' face.

14. Fingerprint is another especial method
with which the police can identify the
thieves. This is making our life safer
and very easy in many ways. For
example- in big super markets doesn't
need to think about too much if
someone tries to steal their products,
because some products have got
chips which can be detected if that
product isn't swiped over the bar code
reader

15. BUSINESS

16. HEALTH
Now a days we don't need to go to
the doctor and describe our
problems, we can use Internet to
contact with our doctor. We can use
also use IT to do face to face
communication with our doctor even
though we are at home. We can also
frequently ask question to our
doctors and they can also answer us
using E-mails.

18. IT has also showed its beneficial
points on money and banking
which helped us a lot to
buy necessary things using E-commerce
which includes online
shopping, online selling etc. It
also helped lot of companies to
deal with other companies. We
can use online money and
banking service 24/7 hours a day.

20. PREPARED BY:
REA B. HERNANDEZ LESLIE F. ARANDA
ANDREA G. FORTES HELEN H. FRANCISCO

21. REFERENCES:
 http://ajahana.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/the-positive-and-negative-impacts-of-ict-
5/
 http://impactofictinourdailylife.blogspot.c
om/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing
 www.gerster consulting.ch/docs./ict_for_poverty_reduction.pdf