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IT,
communications powerful development tools: Sibal
Monday May 16, 2011 08:01:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Information
and communication technologies (ICT) are powerful toolds of
development and can help eradicate poverty, achieve universal
primary education and reduce child mortality, Communications
Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday.
"I strongly believe that ICT could be a powerful tool of
development and poverty reduction through empowerment of masses,
and of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)," said
Sibal at the opening session of World Summit on the Information
Society in Geneva.
Sibal emphasised the importance of embedding ICT in the overall
scheme of governance and public services for achieving the MDGs
declared by the United Nations.
While ICT-enabled public service delivery systems leads to better
targeting and empowerment of common man through timely information
for making key decisions, it increases the reach of trained
teachers through distance learning programs, he said.
Sibal said that through ICT, the government can deliver
educational and literacy programmes specifically targeted to poor
girls and women using appropriate technologies.
It also helps in eradicating health related problems such as
malaria, AIDS, apart from reducing child mortality and improving
maternal health through telemedicine and information
dissemination, he added.
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