Ict Nowadays
The Importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development to Indonesia’s Future
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Gahayu Handari Ekaputri
1) Informatics Engineering, School of Electrical and Informatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Email: gahayu_handari_e@yahoo.com
Introduction
Indonesia is the largest country in the South East Asia region. As we know, Indonesia has large number of people. Unfortunately, my beloved country has not optimized using its commodities and recourses. We still have lot of opportunity, which is, has not been or not so well touched, and this is including Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area. The definition of ICT itself is the set of activities that facilitate by electronic means the processing, transmission, and display of information. ICT has become a powerful tool in the fight against world poverty, providing developing countries with an unprecedented opportunity to meet vital development goals, such as poverty reduction, basic health care, and education, far more effectively than before. Nowadays, ICT has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. ICT also involving in our daily life, use in the internal interest. Therefore, the number of ICT user in the world is rapidly increasing as well as in Indonesia. The lack of appropriate information at the right time will result in low productivity, low quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information and even to do research which actually others had done or in other countries. Moreover, nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our daily needs.
ICT development is important for Indonesia’s future
There are several reason that make me think that the development of ICT is important for Indonesia’s future. The first reason is that ICT has become one of the major interest in the entire world. Indonesia itself
1)
Gahayu Handari Ekaputri
1) Informatics Engineering, School of Electrical and Informatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Email: gahayu_handari_e@yahoo.com
Introduction
Indonesia is the largest country in the South East Asia region. As we know, Indonesia has large number of people. Unfortunately, my beloved country has not optimized using its commodities and recourses. We still have lot of opportunity, which is, has not been or not so well touched, and this is including Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area. The definition of ICT itself is the set of activities that facilitate by electronic means the processing, transmission, and display of information. ICT has become a powerful tool in the fight against world poverty, providing developing countries with an unprecedented opportunity to meet vital development goals, such as poverty reduction, basic health care, and education, far more effectively than before. Nowadays, ICT has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. ICT also involving in our daily life, use in the internal interest. Therefore, the number of ICT user in the world is rapidly increasing as well as in Indonesia. The lack of appropriate information at the right time will result in low productivity, low quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information and even to do research which actually others had done or in other countries. Moreover, nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our daily needs.
ICT development is important for Indonesia’s future
There are several reason that make me think that the development of ICT is important for Indonesia’s future. The first reason is that ICT has become one of the major interest in the entire world. Indonesia itself
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