Impact of Information

Technology 0n society
and quality of life

Dinesh Kumar Dubey - 06 Vasudev Maller - 12

G K Patel - 18 Dinesh Thakur - 32
 Presentation Objectives

“ Technological Change brings

social change & improves quality of life “
 Quality of Life – a system Model

Input Domains of Life Output

Family & Friends

work
Culture

Neighborhood

Demographic
Community Quality of life
Characterstics

Health

Socio economic
Conditions
Education

Spiritual
 What IT Can DO ?

1 . E- Education
Impact on Society

2 . E - Governance

4 . Applications for
3 . Community
safe & Healthy
development
society

Impact on quality of life

 Where we are ?

Parameters Korea Malaysia China India United Japan Germany Singapore

States

Social Indicators

Total Population (millions) 48 25 1296 1080 294 128 83 4

Urban Population (%of total 81 64 40 29 80 66 88 100
population)

ICT Sector Indicators

Telephone lines (per 1000) 467 176 241 43 606 531 660 430
Internet users (per 1000) 656 392 73 23 569 606 472 559
Personal computers (per 1000) 558 170 40 11 760 425 440 565
Mobile Subscriber (per 1000) 760 573 258 48 615 669 858 891
Population covered by mobile 99 96 73 41 95 99 99 100
Telephony (%)

Broadband subscribers (per 247 10 17 0.6 129.1 145.8 83.6 118

1000) 993 127 57 4 3308 1038 6850 5699
International Internet Bandwidth
(bits/person)

ICT Expenditure (% of GDP) 6.6 6.9 5.3 3.7 8.8 7.4 5.7 10.4
E- Education
 What is E - education

E-education (also known as e-learning and online education) is the process

of learning where computers are used at each possible step of the process:
enrollment, instruction design, content delivery, evaluation, assessment
and support .

Strategic Focus Areas

Electronic Education
Education Innovation

Educational
Technology
 E – learning tools

Interactive television education

Video conferencing

E - education

Audiovisual equipment

Educational Technology - R&D

E Campus
 Benefits Of IT on Education

– Opportunity to take classes at times and places not possible in a

traditional classroom setting.

– Use of multimedia resources.

– Provides students with different methods of communication. (Chat rooms,

Blogs, Discussion Boards, etc.)

– Less expensive to provide. (No brick and mortar buildings to build and
maintain).

– Promotes self-directed learning.

– Cost Advantages & Knowledge Society

– Reach to remote areas & accessible to every sectors of society

E-Governance
 What is E- governance

Governance

Sharing of
Way govt. works Service delivery
information
 How E-governance helps

Governance

Good governance E-governance Bad governance

 About – E Governance

• ICT
• Efficiency
• Productivity
• Reach
• Sharing of information
• Service delivery
• Welfare
 E- Governance – Target Agents

business

Government
service delivery

Govt. citizens
 Perception – Why E – Governance ?

• Public systems are • IT enabled systems are

ineffective, sleek, smart and
effective
lots of red tape,
procedural • E-governance would
drastically change
formalities, public systems
corruption,
• It is the lethargy and
& delay resistance on the part
of employees that hold
back e-governance
 E – Governance Deliverables

• Ensure that the government is more citizen friendly

• Improve transparency and social audit ( websites, call

centers and bulk mailing to subscribers about
government activities)
Objectives – Why E - Governance

• To induct a philosophy
of service delivery in
Government.

• To treat the citizen as a

valuable customer who
pays for services, to be
treated with respect
 Objectives – Why E - Governance

• Citizen interaction with governance on three

major aspects:
• Payments to be made to government-
taxes, duties
• Entitlements to be received from the
government- certificates,permits,licenses
• Information required from government-
jobs, schemes, programs
• Citizen focused governance needs to
address these three aspects primarily

For Example FRIENDS an integrated electronic interface by

Govt of Kerala , where citizens can access Govt. services, pay
bills & taxes & obtain information from Govt
 Different delivery models

• Departments going on-line

– Greater departmental ownership: significant re-engineering possible
– Citizen visit many departments, each one may be more efficient
– Could be a first step in the absence of high band width network

• Conveniently located Service Centers

– Counters manned by public/private agencies
– Multiple services at each location: payment, licenses, certificates
– Can quickly move traffic from departments to service centers
– Requires significant coordination

• Self Service through a Portal one stop shop

– Back end computerization and Integration needed for data sharing
– High internet penetration; willingness and ability of citizen to use
– Security and mutual trust (builds with successful outcome)
– Usage builds up gradually. Adoption rate has to be driven.
– Requires strong centralized leadership for extensive co-ordination
 E-governance Best Practices

• Increased accountability
• Increased transparency
• Higher availability of public domain
information
• Reduced corruption
• Higher penetration due to automation
• Increased efficiency due to connectivity
• PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING – technology
only a tool not panacea
Community Development
ITC’s “e Choupal”
A case study
 Case study – ITC’s “e Choupal”

Rural Transformation of Rural

India
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 What ITC delivered

"Our Business Model has truly

Converged the
Shareholder Value with Social
Causes,
ITC has profitably provided
technology to villages”
 ITC’s “e Choupal” CSR - $$
• ITC’s Indian Leading Company
• Launched e Choupal – 1990
• Re-engineering supply chain
– Delivering value to global customers
– Sustainable basis
– Stream line procurement
– Grass roots focus - Indian Farmers
• “Empowerment of Farmers”
“Win - Win Model”
 Problems & Barriers
• Distrust & Fear
• Resistance to change
– Old Trade Channels
• Resistance of Caste System
• Weak:
– Communication Infrastructure
– Power supply
– Illiteracy & Computer Illiteracy
 Transformation
• Holistic Investment by ITC
– Providing Resources & Opening up its facilities
– Investment in Infrastructure
– Sharing Valuable knowledge
• Barriers removed and engaged in Process
• Trader & Farmers Roles changed
– Access to knowledge
• Access to Weather information
• Access to Market Prices
• Increase of 2.5 % over Mandi System
– Quality of life
 How? Offered Services
• Support structure
• Knowledge
– Crop Market Rates
– Harvesting knowledge
– Soil Testing
• Processing
– Electronic Crop Weighing
– Procurement of Seeds & Fertilizers
– Immediate Cash Payment
 Impact on Farmers
• Improved Yields
• Improved Income
• A sense of Empowerment
• Global Access for All
• Created Trust and Respect
“Innovation for the Future”
 Lesson learnt

• Private Sector Involvement

– ITC’s Vision – CSR & Profit
– Shareholder Value Creation
– Social & Economic Development
– Local Partnerships
• Relevant Services
• Trust and Respect
– Created Innovation
Partnerships Models to support MDG’s
“Building a Knowledge Society for All”
Agricultural
Industry
Software Pharmaceutics
Industry Industry

Multi – Sector
Hardware Partnerships
for ICT edical &
Industry Health care
Models

e- Government hemical
elecom Industry
Industry 34
Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to
Make it Sustainable & Profitable
Local NGOs

Multiple
Civil Society
Industries

Multi –
Technology Stakeholder
Partnerships elecom
Providers
Companies
for ICT
Centers

ocal Government onor Group

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Safe & Healthy Society
IT Applications
RFID - Impacting Society
 How RFID works

The tag
The tag responds senses the RF
to a signal from wave, and
the Interrogator, responds with
which in turn some data
sends a signal to
the Computer

A reader RF
wave to a tag
 RFID - Tackling Cow Menace

More than 40,000 cows roaming the streets of Delhi

Unauthorised diaries are the owners of these cows

Anyone bringing the stray cow will win a reward of Rs 2000

Authorities will sell the cows to the new owner

People started bringing the same cows for claiming Rs 2000

 "the chips will be lodged,
So the Delhi civic authorities ticking, inside the cattle’s
are fitting every cow's belly rumens – their 'first stomachs'
with an RFID tag where they store
food after swallowing".

• RFID chips resulted in better control over Cow Menace

 Bio Metrics

Crowd Management in temples through

Biometrics (Fingerprints) Identification Technology.
 Biometrics ?

The technique of studying physical characteristics of a person such as

finger prints, hand geometry eye structure or voice pattern

Biometric methods of identification work by measuring unique human

characteristics as a way to confirm identity, for example, finger or iris
scanning or dynamic signature verification.
 Requirements
• Power/Electricity
• Few Computers with allied items/Peripherals with Network Connectivity.
• Finger Print Scanner
• Web Camera
• Barcode Scanner.
• Counter Place/Infrastructure.
• Manpower 2 per counter

Web Camera BARCODE SCANNER

Finger Print Scanner
 Counter Layout

Verification/Authentication

Registration/Enrollment
 Benefits

Crowd could be converted into Queue System.

Advance Booking facility makes Darshan easily accessible.
Pilgrim facility for obtaining prashad, Donation payment
etc., streamlined.
Categories of pilgrims such as Male, Female, Hour wise,
Day wise, enables shrine board management to develop
and offer additional facilities to the pilgrim.
Transparency on accounting of men and finance etc (all
through data collection reports).
 Impact of super computing on Society & Quality of living

• Bio technology & bio computation

– Molecular Modeling
– Genomic Sequencing

• Nano technology & nano computation

• Atmospherics & Oceanics

• Weather Forecasting

• Climate modeling

• Computational Fluid dynamics for Space Science Applications

• Seismic Data Processing

• Structural Mechanics
 Impact of super computing on Society & Quality of living

• New Crop Research

Agricultural • Bio Fertilizers
Bio Tech • Bio Pest Controllers
Bio
Technology
• Pharma Bio Tech
Medical • Diagnostics Applications
Biotech • Therapeutic Applications
Super
Computing

Nano
Electronic

Nano
Technology

Nano Systems
 Nano Scene

Nano materials

Nano sensors Nano actuators

• Artificial muscle
• Nanorobot components
• Carbon nanotubes Nano electronics • Nano- and Micro-pumps
• Dielectric and ferroelectric • Nano- and Micro-motors
• Materials •••
• Multifunctional polymers
• Bio compatible materials Nano systems
Scalpel, tweezers & Nano tools
••• - Resonant Tunneling Devices
•NEMS (Nano Electro Mechanical Systems) - Single Electron Transistors
•Nano-machines and robots - Quantum well structures
•Tele-surgery - Memories
•Drug delivery - Logic circuits
•Reconfigurable Systems - IR Detectors
•••
- Sensors
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