What are the uses of IT/ICT in different aspects in our society today?

Today ICT has become an important part of day-to-day life. Most human activities now take place with
the aid of ICT solutions. The reason for that is ICT gives effective and speed solutions to the real life
problems. ICT has the capability to satisfy the life of people in an effective manner.

Education

Learning and teaching is easy by using the Information Technology. And now there are online
methods of teaching as well as learning for students, graduates. Computer Assisted School
Administration involves use of IT to automate activities by keeping records of students, results
etc. In foreign countries the students star using the computers from the grade one and when they
grow up they will have a good knowledge and they will be having good internships as well as
innovations too.

Accounting

IT is used to automate the manual accounting systems. The automated teller machines are used in
the banking industry which is now as ATM. And also tele-banking, online banking are nowadays
popular among people as it uses advanced Information Technology.

Transportation

Railways and aero plans use Information Technology for reserving seats, checking luggage,
maintaining time tables as well as for duties of crew.

Medicine

There are special computers in hospitals which help to make the tasks easier. For instance CAT
scanners and maintain patient records electronic databases are used. In Sri Lanka Asiri Surgical,
Durdans, Nawaloka have the patients past records like patient biography, doctors channeled,
medicine offered, diseases etc. And when the patient goes to the hospital in nother one year the
hospital can identify the patient by Identity card number or mobile number. So it’s very useful in
medical industry.

Defense

To track the criminals through maintenance of databases Information Technology is used. If the
hacker is doing any unwanted stuff to these defense systems the world defense privacy is lost and
last few days the World Defense Authority was fully protected by using new antivirus guards to
protect the details.

Engineering

To prepare the drawing using CAD, CAM the engineers use Information Technology. To build the
plans for buildings mostly it’s useful. Robots also use the same technology but its bit advance.

Entertainment

Covers the video games and music played back by computers with multimedia facilities.