Crush The Poverty By Information And Communication Technology
Khizer Hayat Khuhawar, Jianqiu Zeng, Samo Farkhunda, Yuan Ye · International journal of scientific and technology research · 2014
Abstract: This paper discusses the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to reduce the poverty in rural areas of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is now on the way of development and ICT is considered as a magic tool which can boost the economic growth further enhanced the Socio-Economic development. In this paper, poverty profile along with its root cause and socio-economic condition will be analyzed. Finally, ICTs based model is proposed for rural areas which can promote economic growth through empowerment and opportunity so as to reduce the poverty level across rural areas of the country. By the implementation of proposed ICT based model, the rural sector could enjoy great advantages thus to improve their living standard. Key Words: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Poverty, Economic growth, rural community. ———————————————————— 1. The limited resources and Introduction Information is power and power is information, without information there cannot be growth. ICTs are considered as a powerful tool of technologies and resources to generate, disseminate, hoard and manage the information. Knowledge and information are the basic sources of development for economic growth in the poor society