The Next Decade of Ict Development

make a summary review (1-2 pages) of the paper The Next Decade of ICT development

The article debates about ICT (Information and Comunications technology) role in developing countries. In order to organize the main messages I captured in the article, I divided the analyses in 3 parts: 1) definition of ICT, 2) present facts and 3) challenges for the coming years.

ICT is also known as Information Technology (IT) focus on the integration and exploitation of diversified communications means enabling people to manipulate and processing information. Nowadays, what we can perceive is that developing countries are growing in a remarkable speed due the ongoing technological change that is bringing new life to business and regulatory models.One example used by the article is the number of mobile subscriberspotential in the developing world. “mobile tendensity expnded from about 1 telephone per 100 people in 1990 to more than 8 in 2005”. The increase of the use of this network open the dors and windows for growing capacity of information, making possible to reach, with responsiveness, all classes of people.

Comparing Brazil with some developed countries, we know that we still need to invest more in information technology. Developing world is investing billions in information infrastructure and for sure, there are a enourmous potential to exploit the benefits of this networks to this large portion of the world population, that in general are poorer.

I guess the major point for ICT in developing countries is the economical potential that those large portion of the world population has