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SECTION 3: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY (ICT) (cont’d)

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

IMPACT ON JOB SKILLS AND CAREERS
(cont’d)

Students should be able to:

6. assess the impact of information and Economic implications of ICT on Education,
communications technology on select Medicine, Business, Law Enforcement and
fields. Recreation.

For example:

(a) Impact on Education in terms of:

access to information, reach (distance
teaching), collaborative teaching and
learning, plagiarism; online tutoring.

(b) Impact on Medicine in terms of:
access to information (for both medical
personnel and patients), telemedicine,
eHealth (online access to health
services), implications for the quality of
healthcare, increase in self-diagnosis,
easy access to medical expertise in
distant location (for example,
teleradiology).

(c) Impact on Business in terms of:
E-commerce, Electronic Point of Sale
(EPOS), telecommuting Email.

(d) Impact on Law Enforcement in terms of:
E-surveillance, finger printing,
Biometrics.

(e) Impact on Recreation in terms of:
Music and gaming.

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