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THE BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OF REDUCING THE GAP

BENIFITS

 Increased opportunities for personal, educational and employment advancement - A large
number of jobs are being created, it makes it easier to apply and finish assignments and have a
large number of resources online.
 It also improved communication methods – better and clear phone calls. Faster in sending and
receiving of data information.

 It has improved health care – new way of curing or treating diseases, the use of ICT
technological tools helps to cure diseases easily, at a lower time consuming, and it reduces the
number of date rate since there is a new way of improving healthy living.

ICT skills and knowledge is growing fairly quickly as many people who never even knew what a computer
is, are now with help from others gaining access to get online.

DRAWBACKS

 Expensive – as the number of internet uses increases, the cost of setting up a small business
network also increases. It is expensive to pay for electricity bills and it is expensive to improve a
workplace and to set up networks in organization and set up offices. It also takes lots of time to
set up the service and to train people to use it.

 Technology is outdated very quickly
 Government cut backs due to recession

 Education – students tends to rely on the internet, this can bring low performances in level of
education. Students are not focused in class as they tend to use the resources available for
playing video games and watching videos that have no use or that is irrelevant to what they are
taught in class.

 Cultural reasons - reducing the gap may mean less people to speak local languages and to
perform traditional role. Internet is increasing and the number of users are increasing daily, this
may cause a change in the traditional society where educated people tend not to follow or obey
the traditional way of culture, and this may bring disrespect and immoral behaviors into ones
family – ‘myth’.

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