Impacts of ICT on Individuals, Organizations and Society

Essay by andy3yUniversity, Master'sB+, May 2008

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Now day, we are living in an information society. Majority of activities whatever on individuals, organizations or society that are heavily depend on information communication technology (ICT). In other words, ICT infiltrates our daily live even social activity and it is an innovation to drive society progress. Therefore, this essay mainly focuses on the predominantly advantageous of ICT application and aim to clarify some major impacts on individuals, organizations and society. This essay will commence with the discussion of ICT impacts on some specific issues such as quality of life, social contact, business operation, working style, e-commerce and e-government which are relate to individuals, organizations and society. To identify and evaluate the presented academic views, the examples will be provide based on real situations.

From individuals' perspective, the ICT effects tend to positive track, especially act on quality of life. Quality of life refers to measures of how well people could achieve a desirable standard of living (Turban, Leidner, Mclean, & Wetherbe, 2008).

It is concerned as an initial intention of effect by ICT. The benefit of ICT on people's life may be nuanced, because of people define and experience quality of life in many different ways. But people have to admit ICT contribute to improvement in quality of life in several ways, say, safety, health, social contact. In these days, some distinctly improvements in the quality of life arise from the ability of computers to make decisions (Turban, Leidner, Mclean, & Wetherbe, 2008). For example, Global positioning systems (GPSs) a very prevalence tool in most developed countries. It is an integrated guidance system that GPSs associated with geographic information systems (GISs) to equip modern vehicles. GPSs and GISs provide oriented navigational information to driver based on ICT. In result, it upgraded the level of safety and convenience to end...