ABSTRACT
This study assesses the effects of ICT adoption on education and health care systems in recent years. We first develop the effect that ICT could have on education systems and show how they are effective in improving health care systems. We also explore the main discrepancies between low-income and high-income countries regarding their access to ICT and show how this could present some obstacles and challenges that give different outcomes on their education and health care systems. Our study reports that ICT adoption improves education effectiveness at different levels and across all disciplines. In addition, health care systems gain from ICT by delivering better medical services, with cost-efficient and error-free services making people’s lives safer and easier. Discrepancies related to access to ICT’s facilities and infrastructure in low-income and high-income countries show different health and education outcomes in these countries. To conclude, our study suggests some policy recommendations to make ICT use more efficient.
