Current Status of Information Technology And Its Issues in Sri Lanka
Kennedy Degaulle Gunawardana · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2007
Information Technology has come to the revolution in every field of human activity including the way we live and work. There is at least one product involving the use of information technology, including washing machine, microwave, computer and many others. With the rapid growth of Information technology and introduction of internet, we now will be able to order good, reserve seat, arrange anything from our personnel computer no matter where we are. Broad access to information communication technology is key for people to understand, participate and respond to the challenges that development poses to civilization. Understanding of issues such as global warming, loss of biodiversity, evolution, implications of genetic research, and many other topics are essential, almost a requisite, for personal involvement in these issues. They affect all of us, and the better we understand them, the better we can respond with appropriate actions, whether these are activism in public causes or changes at the personal level. In the developed countries, access to information is wide spread. A visit to a decent bookstore provides an enormous amount of possibilities. Libraries, particularly university libraries, can be the most appropriate places. The advent of electronic information, particularly the World Wide Web and other means of global information access, has multiplied the ways in which people can obtain information.