• DocumentCode
    993410
  • Title

    Developing countries and ICTs

  • Author

    Fierro, Luciano Ahumada

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Informatics Eng., Univ. Diego Portales, Chile
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The rapid advance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) makes young people the most qualified to propagate it. ICT is also known as telematics (or info-communications). Telematics is a specialized field of engineering that has developed in part from computer science and in part from electronics, particularly telecommunications. ICT has been growing in importance around the world thanks to the explosive growth of the Internet and its many applications in education, science, services and leisure activities. Developing countries are "creating" qualified professionals whose skills can make these countries good challengers in the ICTs-related products or services, like Internet-based business or services (e-business, e-learning, etc.) Those services/products can be offered to the country itself or to other countries since only ICT-related professionals and the infrastructure are required to develop them.
  • Keywords
    Internet; professional aspects; social aspects of automation; telecommunication services; ICT-related product; ICT-related professionals; ICT-related services; Information and Communication Technology; Internet-based business; info-communications; qualified professionals; telematics; Application software; Communications technology; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational products; Electronic learning; Explosives; Telematics; Web and internet services;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Potentials, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0278-6648
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MP.2005.1462456
  • Filename
    1462456