USING ICT AS MEDIUM FOR ADVOCACY AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION

WHAT IS ICT?

  Information Communication and Technologies(ICT). Information Communication and Technology (ICT) refers to technologies that provides access to communication through telecommunication and focuses primarily on communication technologies . This includes the internet,wireless networks,cellphones and other communication mediums.In the past few decades , ICT provide a vast array of communication to people . For example FACEBOOK it allows user to from different country to remain in contact and communicate on a regular basis.Modern Information Communication and Technologies have created “global village ” in which people can communicate to others as if they were just living next door .

WHAT IS ADVOCACY?

Advocacy is a process of supporting and enabling people to express their views and concerns. Access information and services. Defend and promote their rights and responsibilities

ICT , HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & COUNTRY

The use of ICT has great impact on social movements because things have happened through these. Since it’s the fastest way of spreading information, same changes, small and big, have happened in our world. Ict can be a medium for advocacy and developmental communication in many ways by creating blogs that relates to any issues in our country and any platforms to let everybody know the real possibility that might happen in our country.

Also way of, making the transportation faster, the way people communicate with other people in different places is easier, than the way people communicate before, and gives information easy and faster.

ICT RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
COMPUTER -are no longer just mathematical tool but essential management resources. with computer, such as activities as information generation, processing, analyzing, storage and communicating or sustainable development could be executed easily.

E-MAIL – the most widely used resource of the internet. it is provided for sending and recieving mails through electronic devices

INTERNET – the most valuable vehicle for accelerated information flow. the potentials of the internet lie in the provision of global platform for information sharing among organization and individual

WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) – world wide web is also an internet based resource. it is a utility base on hyper texts.

SECTORIAL IMPACT OF ICT IN DEVELOPMENT –  the importance of ICT to different sectors of national, economic and educational life of the nation cannot be over stressed.

ICT ON BUSINESS MANAGEMENT – ICT is an essential part of national infrastracture and factors greatly in both public and private sectors business enterprises.

BENEFITS OF ICT IN LEGAL SYSTEM – globalization driven by ICT is having a phenomenal impact on acquisition of legal, and other relevan learning, teaching and research material in law libraries across the country