(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2009-06) Hales, Colin F.
There is already a strong correlation between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in that they offer the possibility of creating a system which allows for the efficient and affordable flow of goods, services and information between people, governments and firms. Generally speaking it is without doubt that ICTs are playing an ever increasing role in the proper generation of social, economic, cultural and political changes. However, it is difficult to quantify the impact of ICTs and to separate their influence from those of other factors, such as good governance or economic growth.
Although there is a large amount of evidence that serves to show that ICTs have a significant macroeconomic impact it is not clear to what extent ICTs have helped to directly reduce major development concerns reflected in the MDGs such as poverty, hunger or sickness. It must, however, be admitted that ICT do have an enormous impact on the practice of development activities and plays a great part in those activities which serve to improve the plight of underdeveloped populations all over the world.
