Information Society Watch

2006, Rajib Mitra

New hopes are streaming with the advent of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Apart from its increasing importance in bringing the hemispheres close ICT has paved the way for the challenged people—physically or mentally—to ameliorate their life by providing appropriate educational environment and equipments suitable for them. But to avail facilities as much as possible through this booming technology international cooperation for copious provisions in respect to ICT, issues in standards and legislations at various levels, universal access to ICT and its challenges and the principles involved in creating standard technological products etc are to be taken care of. This article aims at capturing some of those provisions the exploitation of which can be optimized through organizational and governmental enterprise to help out the challenged people more and more (Author).

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