Impact of ICT in Rural Development: Perspective of Developing Countries

Jayita Pramanik^1, , Bijan Sarkar² and Shyamalendu Kandar³

¹Department of Education, Moyna College, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

²Department of Education, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India

³Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India

Cite this paper:
Jayita Pramanik, Bijan Sarkar and Shyamalendu Kandar. Impact of ICT in Rural Development: Perspective of Developing Countries. American Journal of Rural Development. 2017; 5(4):117-120. doi: 10.12691/ajrd-5-4-5

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) can be thought of as an umbrella under which there reside communication system, device and applications. Main importance of ICT is given to its ability to provide greater access to information and communication to the populations and the quality of service provided than the technological backbone required. Rural development includes economic betterment of people as well as greater social transformation to eliminate poverty, ignorance and inequality of opportunities. In developing countries a large number of people are resident of rural area, thus rural development program is a necessary aspect. Use of information and communication technology can contribute a lot in socioeconomic development of rural area. In the current communication we have mainly focused on rural education, agriculture, health care facility, disaster and emergency response and E-governance facility in rural areas of developing countries.

Keywords:
ICT rural development developing country

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