ICT Challenges and Opportunities in Development of Afghanistan

Abstract: The term information and communication technologies (ICTs) encompass the range of technologies for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing, and transmitting information that are essential to prospering in a globalized economy. Advances in ICTs have reduced the costs of managing information and introduced innovations in products, processes, and organizational structures that, in turn, have generated new ways of working, market development, and livelihood practices. Internationally, Advanced countries attaches to ICTs as enablers of economic, governance, security, education, healthcare, and social well-being reconstruction and development. While there is little doubt that ICTs are an engine for social and economic development, quantifying their impact is difficult. Evidence remains largely anecdotal, and the link between ICT deployment and reconstruction and development remains vague. Since the people of Afghanistan are lagging behind the caravan of technology and progress and have an urgent need to use technology in various fields of development and construction of the country, this study shows that the strategic use of information and ICTs can increase significantly the likelihood of success in Afghanistan’s affected-nation, cross-sector reconstruction and development. Moreover, the combination of technology, information content, and people schooled in the use of each will reshape enterprises and activities and will end to a significant advancement all across the country. Finally, highlighted overview of Afghanistan the country and the ICT environment infrastructure, skill base, and implementation challenges and some of the related coordination and information sharing challenges