Impact of ICT on governmental policies

        The government all over the world are focusing on effective implementation of ICT strategies in to order to ensure sustainable economic growth. About a decade ago most of the government of the developing countries use to take ICT’s as marginal technologies to achieve the economic growth and reduced the inflation rate. However, according to Oliner (2000) in the late 1990’s the economic growth achieved with the effective implementation of ICT system in the organizations that result in improved employees’ productivity and the overall organizational performance (Oliner, 2000). The governments are using ICT in order to improve the planning and monitory systems of development programs as well as improving the service quality and enabling the customers to access the required information.

        The ICT have positive on the economy of developing countries. Furthermore, Bhatnagar (2000) has also described that implementation of advancement ICT system in Asian countries provide assistance in improving governmental policies, activities and documentation process that enable the governments to make well informed decision and  ensure positive outcome. (Bhatnagar, 2000). Right use of ICT system enable the economic growth as it supports the policy agenda of governments and provides assistance in achieving the opportunities for the governments, business and customers. Based on the empirical survey results by Derick (2003)  increased productivity and improved operations in Asia-pacific countries have resulted in increased GDP rates that indicates national economic growth (Dedrick, 2003).

References of ICT on governmental policies

Bhatnagar, Subhash. 2000. "Social implications of information and communication technology in developing countries: Lessons from Asian success stories." The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries 1 (1): 1-9.

Blyton, P., and P. Turnbull. 1994. Reassessing HRM. Sage Publications.

Dedrick, Jason, Vijay Gurbaxani, and Kenneth L. Kraemer. 2003. "Information technology and economic performance: A critical review of the empirical evidence." ACM Computing Surveys 35 (1): 1-28.