Role of Information and Communication Technology in Rural Development in Bihar

Abstract

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are those technologies that can be used to interlink information technology devices such as personal computers with communication technologies such as telephones and their telecommunication networks. The PC and laptop with e-mail and Internet provides the best example. Devices such as digital cameras, digital video cameras and players, personal digital assistants, slide projectors and mobile telephones are also compatible with more traditional media such as radio and television. In easy terms ICT is defined as technologies that facilitate communication, processing and transmission of information in the electronic format. The progress of any market mainly depends on the access to information. The ICTs greatly facilitate the flow of information and knowledge by presenting the rural consumers extraordinary opportunities to attain their own entitlements.