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Expanding Information Technology; Blessing or curse

OUTLINE;

1.     Introduction

2.     What is Information Technology: Scope and Extent

3.     History of Information Technology

4.     Current status of Information Technology

5.     How expanding Information Technology is a Blessing:

5.1.          It has made the individual more enlightened, freer, and more aware.

5.2.          Information technology is a tool for good governance and improving democracy.

5.3.          The expansion of information technology has made the world a global village.

5.4.          The internet revolution has ensured a common man’s access to information.

5.5.          The expansion of information technology has opened new areas for research.

5.6.          It has led to ease of doing business across the world.

5.7.          Information technology as an industrial venture has diversified the economy of states.

5.8.          It is one of the ways of enhancing IT-related exports and improving economic indicators.

5.9.          The extent of progress in the IT sector has led to the mitigation of barriers between the developing and developed world.

6.     Causes of hurdles to reap full advantage of IT:

6.1.          Unequal access to resources of IT in poor countries.

6.2.          Vested interest of IT grant companies in the world.

6.3.          The misuse of IT by superpowers to tight cyber wars.

7.     Impacts of these hurdles:

7.1.          Spread of inequality and marginalization.

7.2.          Ethical compromise by the IT companies.

7.3.          Cyber as the new warfare in the world.

8.     Current steps were taken by the world to make Information Technology more inclusive

9.     Improving Information Technology: The Way Forward

9.1.          State needs to ensure equal access to the resources of IT to impede the marginalization and alienation of citizens.

9.2.          IT needs to be treated as a separate industry with a separate allocation of funds and returns.

9.3.          Laws need to be drafted at the International level to curb the misuse of Information technology.

10.  Conclusion