Essay on Information Technology

Information technology is a modern phenomenon in the modern world with a history of just two decades in the present world. Earlier it was not part and particle of our day to day affairs so far. People residing in the Third World countries were not aware of the use of information technology even till the year 2000.

Public administration was done in a simple version of dealing with administration in a traditional mode so far. So these days the emergence of information technology is benefiting all and sundry in all across the world. Now the public administration is dealt widely with the prior use of information technology in it. For instance, the national identity cards database is being managed in almost all the countries of the world through information technology. The identity of the person is no more a big deal to be identified with a single click of button on computers (K. C. Laudon, 1998).

Driving licenses, passports, insurance policies, bank accounts, ATM cards are all directly linked with information technology. These cards normally do have code numbers with them. Through all these documents and cards an individual is directly benefited and secured from forgery issues.  

So, the individual is now well-secured and tension-free in today’s scenario. The straight forward persons do have tension free lives now a day. We can easily say that information technology has made all of them safe and sound as respectable citizens of their respective countries. In a way IT is promoting the rights of people with playing its role in policy-making process so far.

The database of any disease, virus, birth-rates, death –rates, surveys of all kinds whether economic, political or social are conducted through the prior use of information technology.  End of the day, people are promoted and their rights are being secured through the massive usage of information technology.

The traffic signals in most of the countries are now no more manually operated at all. But they are all mostly operated through IT technology which is a healthy sign for all the societies and countries. Nobody can avoid the usage of information technology even in these matters. Now the ones who have actually violated the traffic rules cannot save themselves from heavy fines anymore. Whereas the law-abiding persons with a prior traffic knowledge would be enjoying tension free lives as they are well-aware that they have not violated any of the traffic rules and would not be enforced with any fine at all. So the information technology secures them in all means. That is why, we can easily say that information technology is promoting and equally benefiting the people belonging to different classes of society who were once exploited by the Pre-IT manual system enforced in the societies. All of those persons are now supporting IT to its full (Dutta, Geiger, & Lanvin, 2015).

Reference : The study and research carried out in Seoul and Bussan Cities of Korea in the year 98 and 2005 shows the results generated through the use of information technology in the public sector which benefited the people to its full.

References of Information Technology

Dutta, S., Geiger, T., & Lanvin, B. (2015). The global information technology report 2015. In World Economic Forum, 1(1), 80-85.

K. C. Laudon, &. J. (1998). Management information systems: new approaches to organization and technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ.