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Highlight four social-economic challenges brought about by the rapid advancements in internet technology.

      

Highlight four social-economic challenges brought about by the rapid advancements in
internet technology.

  

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Kavungya
i) Moral degradation
Internet technology has led to increase of immorality in the society this is because of certain sites
in the internet which displays pornographic videos which is later brought in the'society.
ii) Unemployment
Due to internet technology most of the people have been rendered jobless as most of the jobs
which were previously done manually have been computerized and are being done online e.g.
advertisements, mailing of letters to mention but a few.
iii) Data insecurity
As a result of internet technology most of the organization tend to lose most of their important
information or manipulation of the information due to hacking,
iv) Cost
Purchase cost, maintenance cost and training cost of the and the use of the devices of internet
technology is very high thus small organization or poor family cannot afford e.g computers.
Kavungya answered the question on May 14, 2019 at 09:43


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