Social impact of I.T

1. Social impact of I.T Shahadat Ali

2. Local community • The local community can be affected by this because they might not have internet access. This can lead to people being uneducated about the I.T because they are not likely have any understanding of internet and the usage. Now days you need it in the community because it is need for students for their lesson where as they may use it as a learning resources. Not having any I.T has a huge impact because in the community it will be hard to look for information and access staff.

3. Availability of jobs • The employment rate will go high because in the modern days every job includes with I.T usage. So people with no qualification in I.T are unlikely to get a job or understand how the I.T industry works. Every thing now days involves with technology so people who have a old mentality of working on desk with no computer or I.T are likely to struggle. Example… people are getting replaced with machine like robots in factory. The big impact people get is when they lose their jobs its hard to found any. Also during the recession big business want people with the best qualification and enough work experience so they now what they are doing because they are using technology. The main disadvantage is during the bad time people are losing more jobs so there will be less job vaccines. By having more job cuts leads to unhappy people.

4. Inequality in broadband access • In certain areas like villages or farms there are unlikely to have any broadband because some of the company might not reach out to them or they cant afford the price of broadband. The big impact they got that they cant communicate with the customer or the business without broadband. Most place like city and town will have broadband access because they use it in their big business and company so they need broadband to communicate with others about their business. Biggest impact business can get by not having broadband is that they are likely to struggle more and have less competition with the other big company's. So this can lead the company busting down and people losing jobs.

5. Potential Threats • Using the internet can be for good causes, but people can also use it for the wrong reason. It can lead to lots of problem. The type of potential threats you can get are … cyber bulling, denial of service, virus and etc. • Virus is a small type of infection coming into your devices and damaging it without you realizing its happening. It can lead to the computer not turning on or having a black screen showing there is something wrong. Some can be major or minor but they all damage your computer. Example … Malware is extremely a dangerous virus can damage your computer. It will lead the virus to spread one thing to another and likely to go on to another device eg computer. • Cyber Bullying is the use of technology to harass, threat or embarrasses someone. This can lead someone doing something bad like committing suicide. It can be verbal or physical but it happens on social networking to on Facebook, Twitter or any type. It also give people depression because it can happen to them consistently and they cant handle the issue. • Denial of service is bombarding a web server with so many request that the server cant cope and has to shut down. Example… Capital One was target by a cyber attack ruined online services.