Role of Information and Communication Technology in Poverty Elimination with Respect to SDG-2030 Agenda
Rakesh Kumar, Rupa Khanna, Tilottama Singh, Richa Goel · Apple Academic Press eBooks · 2025
In all facets of national life, information and communication technology (ICT) is extremely important. It is altering how we conduct business, obtain information and services, converse with one another, and pass our leisure time. Additionally, it has to do with human rights, ideally supporting the freedom of expression and the right to information. ICT may lower poverty by increasing underprivileged people’s access to government, financial, and health services. Small farmers and craftspeople may benefit from ICT by being given access to marketplaces. The focus of this chapter, for example, is on what role ICT has in eliminating poverty. This chapter will also shed light on whether ICT creates new socioeconomic discrepancies between the rich and the poor or exacerbates those that already exist. The information- poor has evolved into the resource-poor in an information society. The link between information and communication technology, or ICT, and poverty is attempted to be explored in this chapter. The proportion of ISPs, phone lines, PCs, and TVs per 1000 people decreases as the human poverty index rises. The most frequent of these activities is the dissemination of low-end information and communication technologies in underdeveloped regions. Knowledge management is the ideal answer that ICT can provide for every project, including the reduction of poverty. Knowledge networking is an important component of knowledge management. The idea of “digital poverty” is presented in this chapter via a discussion of the concepts of poverty, information requirements, and ICT. As a result, the absence of ICT is what is meant by the term “digital poverty,” which may affect any demographic group, whether they are struggling economically. This chapter will, therefore, establish a connection between Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 and ICT or the use of ICT to reduce poverty.