About CEG

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has the capability to provide developing nations with an unprecedented opportunity to meet vital development goals and thus empower them to ‘leapfrog’ several stages of their development far more effectively than before. It is argued that those nations that succeed in harnessing the potential of ICT can look forward to greatly expanded economic growth, dramatically improved human welfare, and stronger forms of democratic governance, thus playing a specific role in furthering and enhancing sustainable development.

The pervasive potential impact of ICT emerges from being used as control technology, leading to innovations in products and processes in the manufacturing sectors and resources extraction industries. ICTs have become indispensable ingredients in all forms and processes of economic activity ranging from stock inventories, product and service information, marketing, manufacturing, and design. Quantitative assessment of the impact of ICT becomes difficult, as it is embedded and integrated in all industrial and service sectors. ICT directly influences human development through access to information, knowledge and enlarging choices. The long-term impact of ICT lies in its ability to directly expand human choices through increased access to information and knowledge. ICT breaks barriers to human development in at least three ways not possible before or with other forms of technology: