With the help of this, it is now easier to communicate with our love ones.

It can impact students learning when teachers are digitally literate and understand how to integrate it into curriculum.

It enables organizations to operate more efficiently, so employing staff with ICT skills is vital to the smooth running of any business.

The rapid and vast adoption of technologies is changing how we find partners, how we access information from the news, and how we organize to demand political change.

Increase in access to information and services that has accompanied the growth of the internet.

Examples of this are distance learning and online tutorials.

Cost savings by using e.g. VoIP instead of normal telephone, email/messaging instead of post, video conferencing instead of traveling to meetings, e-commerce web sites instead of sales catalogues. Access to larger, even worldwide, markets.

ICT gives access to new tools that did not previously exist:  digital cameras, photo editing software and high quality printers, screen magnification or screen reading software enables partially sighted or blind people to work with ordinary text rather than Braille.

ICT solves or reduces some security problems, e.g. Encryption methods can keep data safe from unauthorized people, both while it is being stored or while it is being sent electronically.

Data mining of customer information to produce lists for targeted advertising. Improved stock control, resulting in less wastage, better cash flow, etc.

Students can access teaching materials from all over the world.

Examples would be systems analysts, programmers and software engineers, as well as help desk operators and trainers.

Manual operations being replaced by automation. e.g. robots replacing people on an assembly line.  Job export. e.g. Data processing work being sent to other countries where operating costs are lower. Multiple workers being replaced by a smaller number who are able to do the same amount of work. e.g. a worker on a supermarket  checkout can serve more customers per hour if a bar-code scanner linked to a computerized till is used to detect goods instead of the worker having to enter the item and price manually.

Most people need some form of social interaction in their daily lives and if they do not get the chance to meet and talk with other people they may feel isolated and unhappy.

A lot of ICT hardware and software is expensive, both to purchase and to maintain. An ICT system usually requires specialist staff to run it and there is also the challenge of keeping up with ever-changing technology.

This can lead to health problems such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

This is usually thought of as being a good thing, but for some organizations being exposed to greater competition can be a problem. If the organization is competing for customers, donations, or other means of funding nationally or even internationally, they may lose out to other organizations that can offer the same service for less money.

It facilitates the ability to perform ‘impossible’ ‘experiments’ by using simulations.

It allows people to participate in a wider, even worldwide, society