ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the relationships between the development of effective communication and the progress of national development, and suggests ways in which the new knowledge and new technology of communication can help to speed economic and social growth. The development of effective communication seems to be an essential of national development regardless of the political auspices and the economic model. In a modern society, much of the burden on communication is borne by the educational system, the mass media, and the social organizations. In many of the developing countries, these institutions are themselves undeveloped. Developing countries find it difficult to assemble and allocate all the resources they need to develop adequately the channels of communication within their society. The present generation of communication satellites is able only to transmit messages from one ground station to another. A quiet revolution brought about by offset printing has been taking place in some of the printing plants of industrialized countries.
