BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF ICT

CONTENT

1. Benefits of ICT
2. Disadvantages of ICT

The Benefits of ICT

The following are the benefits or advantages of of ICT:

1. Timely, better and cheaper access to knowledge and information.
2. Speeds up transactions and processes.
3. Provides opportunities for human beings to interact with one another in new ways easily.
4. Makes distance to become irrelevant in business transactions and dealings.
5. ICT has brought about innovative ways of interaction.
6. It provides employment opportunities to people globally
7. It is very useful as a medium of instruction in schools. It also makes people to acquire knowledge especially in ICT.
8. When used in governance, it leads to efficiency. This is called e-administration.
9. It is useful in medicine for medical diagnosis.

Disadvantages of ICT

The disadvantages of ICT include the following:

1. It can lead to job loss as a result of computerization of transactions in an office.
2. Youth often abuse the internet by using it mostly for entertainment, watching pornography and using it to commit crime, notably cybercrime.