BEAUTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IT – NEW PARADIGM

Information technology introduces new ways of participation by the poor men, women and young people, educated and uneducated knowingly and unknowingly in the global economy in cost-effective and poor-friendly ways, thus creating opportunities to address the issue of poverty reduction. Information technology offers the most exciting possibilities for overcoming paucity. This potential will vastly remain unexplored if left to the market forces. Therefore increasing the need to create a regional mechanism such as an Asian Institute of Information Technology for Poverty Reduction which would help in coordinating the existing information technology based systems and experiments, and developing the grounds for replicating the strategies based on information technology for poverty reduction.

Information technology provides remedy to the problem of poverty simply because it presents mankind with a tool for leveraging information and knowledge at a rate and at a level before now unknown. This has implications for not only individuals and communities but for nations. Information technology can be used to search for and transmit local, regional and global best practices in poverty eradication, enhance participation in governance, give voice to the disenfranchised in the society and facilitate new forms of governance, all of which in turn will serve to enhance a country's potential to make positive strides in poverty eradication related efforts.

The information technology and IT enabled services sector and its role in country’s economic growth, in terms of its contribution to gross domestic product, exports and employment creation has been steadily increasing. There is a great necessity to find ways and means to improve economic conditions for the betterment of all.  Eradication of poverty is not by any means a simple or one step process. It takes a long and tedious process to just find ways to make a small change.  Total eradication is a long range plan in which shortness in small goals must be involved.

Information technology is concerned with all forms with tools, techniques and technology applied for transmitting, storing, processing and disseminating information. It refers it any combination of equipments and procedures that facilitate the acquisition, creation, retrieval, storage, searching. Usually, information technology is viewed as a synthesis of developments in the field of computer science and the development in telecommunication technology.

The achievements of the Indian information technology industry so far have been quite noted worthy. This is because of technical skills of Indian Software professional and high quality software development coupled with lowest costs. Indian software companies have acquired a worldwide reputation of providing software solutions with cost and quality advantage.

Information Technology industry has witnessed tremendous growth over the past two decades. The pace of technological development in the information technology market, both at the domestic and international levels have been phenomenal. The employment opportunities are expected to be good in the information technology industry as demand for computer-related occupation increase due to rapid advances in computer technology, continuing development of new computer application and the growing significance of information security.

IT workers must continually update and acquire new skills to remain qualified in this dynamic field. They also must posses’ strong problem-solving and analytical skills as well as excellent communication skills because troubleshooting and helping others are such vital aspect of the job.