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Applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) refer to the uses of computers, the Internet, traditional and mobile phones, as well as television and radio in activities such as agricultural production, education, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing and construction, financial services, customer and other business services, entertainment, and government services. Clearly, as evidenced from causal observations over the last three decades, ICT has profound impacts on the socioeconomic development of countries regardless of the degree of their industrialization.
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Ghazinoory, S., Jamali, R. (2013). Information and Communication Technology: Between a Rock and a Hard Place of Domestic and International Pressures. In: Soofi, A.S., Ghazinoory, S. (eds) Science and Innovations in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030108_5
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