| The impact of Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) on Development has been amply charted in the
last decade of the outgoing century as a multi-dimensional,
multi-stakeholder and pervasive process. So significant is this
impact that those that have the capacity to apply these technologies
have witnessed rates of development that continue to fuel the
Digital Divide.
Information and communication technology (ICT) is transforming
the global economy and creating new networks that cross cultures
as well as great distances. But access to and use of these
technologies remains extremely uneven. This disparity the
so-called “digital divide” is, in large part,
a reflection of deeper social and economic inequalities both
between and within countries.
At the time when ICT was newly introduced to the world; Afghanistan
was engaged in the war and could not adopt this new blessing.
This is why Afghanistan remained as one of the most affected
countries suffering from digital divide.
Now is the time where Afghanistan is getting ready to come
back to the normal development cycle and catch with the new
technologies. In order to quicken the pace of the development
there is need for the technologies and human resource that
can run and liquidate the technology and one of the requirements
for this is the technology should be understandable; this
means that there should be contents available in local languages
The project will put grounds for the future local content
development as this will cover issues, which will facilitate
the development platform for the programmers who can then
develop applications, which will address the issues of local
content.
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