impact of New Communication Technology in context to South Africa
NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY NATASHA WILLIAMS ASSIGNMENT 3: THE IMPACT OF NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEXT TO SOUTH AFRICA LECTURER: CORNE BESTER WORD COUNT: 1727 CONTEXT PAGE: 1. ... COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA 4. ... TITLE South Africa is regarded as a developing third world country. A country that has been hit with unemployment, disease, poverty, lack of education and health facilities and hunger to such extreme measures but south Africa is making an attempt to better these circumstances. ... INTRODUCTION With all the new technology South Africa has today the country should be developing at an increasing rate but instead the development is taking a long time. ... In a developing country like South Africa new communication technology is assisting in this development by solving problems such as unemployment, filing information and the police system but only to a small degree. ... Agostino Neto, the first president of Angola in South Africa, wrote a poem, which graphically describes the life of a poor quarry worker (quoted in Bennett and George, 1987, p. ... Technology is crucial for third world development. Technology choice is not straightforward. ... Technology is often viewed in a static sense. We have a problem, we choose a technology that will solve it to a greater or lesser extent, and that is that. However technology can also be dynamic element where technology is in a constant state of flux, forever being adapted and feeding back into the process of innovation. Technology is also dynamic in terms of the knowledge, which it both requires and generates. In manufacturing technology, for example, the choice may be between a capital-intensive and short-term economically efficient system and a labor-intensive system that is relatively inefficient in the same terms. ... The economies of small: appropriate technology in a changing world. London: Intermediate Technology Publications. ... COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA The modern world depends on continuous communication or interaction between people widely separated from one another. If we were not so dependent on communication across distance, schooling on a mass bias would be neither necessary nor possible. ... We are aware of situations and events thousands of miles away – electronic communication makes such awareness almost instantaneous. ... In the twentieth century, rapid transport and electronic communication have greatly intensified the global diffusion of information.