Information and Communication Technology and Sustainable Development

Abstract

In today’s world productivity and efficiency issues take center stage more. Sustainable development concept has become more important, especially since the last quarter of 1900s when the fears increased about the scarcity of resources. Sustainable development that is environmentally sensitive and aimed at reducing inequality between generations and increase production outputs has become an issue which should be emphasized by all countries. High environmental costs have begin to increase importance of sustainability. Emerging technologies that called “Green Information and Communication Technologies” present new solution offers for environmental pollution and become an important cornerstone for the sustainability process. Information and communication technologies that is one of the most important issues within sustainable development processes will provide the minimization of uncertainties in production stage by increasing the productivity and efficiency. Information and communication Technologies has the potential to increase quality of all people life without compromizing the ecosystem by using less material and energy, so this technologies provide benefit maximization. In this context the study will be examined the relationship between information and communication technologies and sustainable development. Data which will be used in the paper will consist different variables (e.g. GDP, internet users…) and the results of the paper will compare the countries. Paper will bring out the importance of information and communication technologies for sustainability by the results.