Knowledge Development, ICT Management, and Education Policy: Global Issues Local Challenges

Abstract

In general, at the beginning of the present twenty-first century, almost all nations of the international community had undergone the process of social change and will continue to be changing more rapidly in the decades to come. The factor of information and communication not only plays a significant role in their cultural, social, economic, and political development of the nation states but also has been perceived as one of the most critical determining variables toward the improvement of status and living conditions of the general community. At present, the rapid and exact distribution of information at the global level across continents, regions, cities, and villages and between individuals far and near can be difficult or impossible to stop. In respect to the online communication highways, the application of the computer system and the Internet processing facilities electronically from the simplest to the most sophisticated techniques has contributed to the knowledge and information distribution most rapidly through the computer system. This paper attempts to highlight various issues and challenges of the information and communication technology particularly in terms of its development and growth, utilizations, benefits, and unanticipated consequences.