ICT has brought about significant advancements and benefits to the society, but it has also introduced several issues and challenges. Here are some of the key issues caused by ICT:
Social Issues
Digital Divide
- Digital Divide and no Digital BridgeDigital Divide is the gap between people who use ICT resources and people who don’t use ICT resources.So that Digital divide is an economic and social inequality due to the differences in access to use of ICT
- Reasons for the Digital Divide
- Lack of education
- Poverty
- Unavailability of Technical know
- Lack of Infrastructure facilities
- Traditional aspects
- Digital Bridge
Digital bridge is forming connections among people avoiding the digital divide. So that using digital bridge can cover that gap of digital devide.
- How to Create a Digital Bridge
- By improving the Digital Literacy
- By Supply of computers & education institutes
- By giving equal opportunities to avoid financial difficulties
Loss of jobs (De skill)
- Job losses may occur for several reasons, including: Manual operations being replaced by automation.
- e.g. robots replacing people on an assembly line.
- Multiple workers being replaced by a smaller number who are able to do the same amount of work.
Reduced personal interaction
- Because of people work by staying at their home, they may feel isolated and unhappy. Most people need some form of social interaction in their daily lives.
Cyber sickness
- Addiction to social networks and internet games. Spending more time for computers.
Access to harmful information
- They corrupt people mind and drives them to commit crimes. Ex getting details of weapons from search engines
Economical Issues
Economic issues by ICT
- Facilitate prohibited transactions because of the online transactions Ex: Drug transaction,
- Facilitate purchasing products without paying taxes. This will result huge financial loss to a country. Ex: purchasing goods from eBay, amazon without vat.
Environmental Issues
- Electronic waste or e-waste is becoming a huge problem around the world. Much of it used to end up in landfill.
- e-waste has toxic chemicals such as lead, cadmium. They can leach into the soil over time and contaminate the drinking water.
- To develop advance devices people continuously use high risky chemical compounds such as lead, cadmium, arsenic. They will create health hazards.
- Energy consumption
Ethical Issues
- Privacy Issues
- Privacy
- Protecting of personal information in computer data banks from abuse/misuse
- Piracy
- Software piracy is the illegal copying, distribution, or use of software.
- This means making use of software which has no copyright or any other right to the person who using it.
- Plagiarism
- Passing off the products such as software hardware, electronic documents or some other persons thoughts and ideas as ones own.
- Phishing
- Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details for malicious reasons, by appearing as a trustworthy entity in an electronic commerce.
- Ex: a user received emails from eBay, claiming that the user’s account was about to be suspended, unless he clicked on the provided email link and updated the credit card information.
