ICT- Information and Communication Technology is playing a Leading role in the Development of many countries.The Fruits of Development have been reaped by many countries and others are yet to achieve. It also take you through the Automation and its future.

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4. In the automated world where communication takes place within fraction of seconds
and works are being carried out by the machines without our presence with precision
and perfection at a greater degree than humans is nothing but the result of the advanced
developments in the technology including in doing the day-to-day activities. “Necessity
is may be called the mother of inventions” it may be the driving factor behind the
inventions and advancements in the present things.
Rightly speaking in the present scenario most of the people, firms and majority of the
world’s population are equipped with one or other form of technical device ranging
from the mobile phone to large automated machineries and also some or other are left
behind without access to this which may be mobile phone, internet etc.,
On a broader sense a clear picture can be framed how technology paves the way for
development by which the problems of the underdeveloped or developing countries can
be overtaken.

5. How technology promotes development?
Creating New Job Opportunities.
Making the Labor markets more Productive and Innovative.
Decreasing the production time in the ways of automation.
Linking up the domestic markets ( including the Labor and Product markets)
at a Global Level.
Increasing the effectiveness in the functioning of the government.
Bringing a transparency in the functioning of the government there by
reducing the corruption in the government and also easy flow of the transfer
payments and also the other benefits to the people directly without any
leakages.
Increasing the output and also quality in the Industries.

6. Speeding of the spread of the communication and also easy flow of funds
worldwide on a single click.
It also speeds up the trade and also eliminates the trade barriers.
Helping the rural unreached by providing them access to the wide range of
information available on the web and linking them to the world.
In the education sector, Health Sector, and others enabled with the internet can
do wonders. The globalized classrooms and also the digital learning resources
will form the base for the budding learners and resulting In the productive
outcomes.
As the dependency on the Information and Technology is increasing day by day
it also paves the way for a country to develop its exports in this sector.
Digitization of the information available ensures it in safe hands for its
preservation in order to access for the future generations.

7. It has both positive and negative effects on employment in the process of
transformation and the development of the tech enabled sector it may result in
Creating employment opportunities.
Unemployment to a certain extent ( Structural Unemployment)
Effect of automation on employment.
Need of Technical Education.
Low wages and salaries.
Effective working of the employees who are equipped with the high end
technology.

10. On Automation

11. We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have
heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come—
namely, technological unemployment. This means unemployment due to our
discovery of means of economizing the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we
can find new uses for labour. —John Maynard Keynes “Economic Possibilities for Our
Grandchildren,” 1931

14. Estimated share of employment that is
susceptible to automation

15. Interaction between technology and Jobs

17. Source: Economist 2015a. Data at http://bit.do/WDR2016-Fig1_11.
Competitive pressure faced by firms
Because of digital innovations (2014)

18. Sources: World Bank staff calculations; UNCTAD 2015. Data at http://bit.do/WDR2016-Map1_3
International Online Payment Systems

19. Mobile Phone as a medium of Development
Turned out to be an important part of human
life.
Wide Variety of applications aimed in easing
the everyday tasks.
Mobile Phone Payment and transaction
systems highly successful in countries such as
Kenya (M-Pesa).
Also helpful in carrying out the governments
schemes effectively.
Information Barriers have been removed
effectively.
Telemedicine is also a good achievement.
Internet the source of the digitized world is
being accessed from the mobile phones to a
greater extent.
World in your hands.

22. Source: World Bank ID4D database (various years). Data at http://bit.do /WDR2016-FigS4_1.

24. Case of Israel

26. Education that upgrades skills also facilitates higher
adoption of digital technologies

27. GDP 1.7 %, Investments 4.2 %, exports 1.7 %.