Information and Communication Technology in Developing Countries of Asia1
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1 Brahm Prakash 2 This paper reviews the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent past and focuses on the pattern of its growth in Asian countries 3. It tries to assess ICT's development potential for developing countries of the region where the bulk of the world's poor reside and to capture some of the challenges ICT now faces there. Developments in ICT have changed the way economic activities are organised. The impact can be traced in two ways: first, how the ICT industry itself has changed during the last few years, and, second, how ICT has impacted on other economic activities such as manufacturing and services. The beginnings of the ICT industry trace to the birth of the internet in the late 1960s and the appearance of the personal computer (PC) in the 1970s. Its development as currently understood actually picked up momentum in the early 1990s, however, when, assisted by communication technology, the PC and web–based technology joined to emerge as a powerful tool for business and development. Since then, ICT has integrated computing, communications and graphics through digitalisation. It has thrived on web sites with the use of broadband optical–fibre lines. It has already made headway into the wireless mode and is becoming more and more personalised with greater use of personal digital aides (PDA). The pace of technological change has accelerated, driven by both hardware and software innovations (Gates, 1996). There is no reason to believe that we have come to the end of this process. Indeed, the changes are so deep–seated that we are not even fully aware of their full implications.
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