Present Role of ICT in Economy

• Education
  
• Learning
  
• Teaching
  
• Educational administration
  
  Eg.
  Computer Assisted Learning ( CAL )
  Computer Assisted School Administration
  
  
  Use of IT to automate activities in school
  administration such as keeping records of students,
  examination results, normal office work, communication
  with other schools via e-mail etc. .
  
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• Accounting and Banking
  
  
• IT is used to automate manual accounting  systems such as general ledger, sales and purchases, stock control ( with point of sales terminal connected to stock data base )
  In banking the use of Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) is a useful application  of IT
  

• Transportation
  
  
  IT is used in transportation by railways and airlines for reservation of seats, control of traffic and maintaining time-tables of vehicles and duties of crew. It is used all fields of air traffic. Every air craft has a small computer fitted to help pilots in various ways.

• Medicine
  
  
  In hospitals special computers are built inside different equipment. For example CAT scanners ( Computer Axial Tomography ) Further maintenance of patients records in electronic databases enhances service provided to them.

• Engineering
  
  Engineers use IT to prepare drawings of machines, tools, bridges, buildings etc.
   ( Computer Assisted Drawing- CAD ). Also computers are used to control manufacture of items. ( Computer Assisted Manufacture ). The use of Robots in industries is another example.


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• Defense & Security
  


• IT is very useful in tracking down of criminals by  maintenance of their databases. In warfare computers are used to guide missiles.
  
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• Entertainment
  
  This basically covers video games, music and movies played back by computers with multimedia facilities.