UOTC Information and Communications Technology Challenges Paper

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This assignment will be one of several throughout your educational program. One of the core competencies necessary to succeed in your education endeavor is the ability to identify other research that pertains to your own. This means you'll have to identify similar research, read the papers, and assimilate prior work into your research.

Your paper must be a correct APA format, use proper grammar, and will need to include at three (3) resources, ALL of which must:

1) Be current. Published within the last few years, but not older than 2014.

2) Be peer-reviewed.

3) Relate directly to Information Technology in a Global Economy.

USE YOUR OWN WORDS!!!! DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!

Your response must reflect materials covered in the assigned chapters of week 6.

Every resource you choose must be peer-reviewed. That means the paper must have undergone a formal peer review before being published in a journal or presented at a conference. You must ensure that your resources have undergone rigorous revisions. In most cases, you can find out the review process for a meeting or journal by visiting the appropriate web site. Do not merely assume that a resource is peer-reviewed - check it out.

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https://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/bibliography...

https://www.bethel.edu/library/research/apa-annobib-sixth.pdf\

http://libguides.enc.edu/writing_basics/annotatedb...

http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliog...

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03...

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Running head: ICT CHALLENGES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

ICT Challenges in the Global Economy
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ICT CHALLENGES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
ABSTRACT
Since its invention, it has been hard to stop or ignore information and communications
technology (ICT) due to the impacts it has in most of sectors. In the business sector, it has
enhanced the global economy. However, there are still challenges related to ICT when it comes
to dealing with foreign shareholders and more specifically, those in the developing economies.
After extensive research and analysis of various peer-reviewed secondary materials,
technological ignorance, lack of ICT equipment and infrastructural gaps were identified as the
main ICT challenges. Multiple efforts are being implemented to help deal with the above
problems. However, more can still be done to eradicate the predicaments.

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ICT CHALLENGES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

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1. INTRODUCTION
Geiger Dutta and Lanvin in the Global Information Technology Report, 2015 states that
since its invention, information and communications technology (ICT) has been unstoppable.
There has been an upsurge of ICT over the years, and it has been hard to ignore the impact it has
had on all the sectors. The business sector is one of the industries that have been affected. Before
the ICT invention, people mainly traded locally, but this changed with technology. People all
over the world were able to engage in business with each other, and it gave birth to the concept
of a global economy. Most firms also had to restructure and redefine their foundations,
operations and management paradigms. A perfect example is that with technology, individuals
from both the developing and developed economies were able to purchase blocks of equity of
firms in foreign countries as long as they met the requirements. It makes them international
shareholders something that has furthered the growth of the global economy (Du...


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