The Impact of ICT on Your Local Community

The Impact of ICT on Your Local Community

The local community that I will be focusing on is Uckfield. I will be

searching about there to find all of the ICT that they use around the

area. There are many new and old technologies in Uckfield that can be

accessed by anyone in the world. In this essay I will name all of

them in Uckfield and will list some advantages and disadvantages of

them and will evaluate the cost fro the community for having them and

how necessary they are for the community and lastly what would happen

if we didn’t have them in our community, what would happen to Uckfield

if we had no technologies?

Internet Café

The Uckfield Internet café is an Internet Cafe or Cyber Cafe where

customers pay to use Internet connected computers. The computers are

self-access which means the customer presses the keys, moves the mouse

and looks at the computer screen. Currently we charge £2 for 1-hour

computer access, with a minimum charge of £1. When you come in you

simply buy a pay and display sticker from our automatic ticket machine

to cover the time you would like to stay. Then you sit down and use a

computer. Keep an eye on the time - if you run out of time you just

buy another ticket. No membership is required. To just browse the

Internet you do not need an email account, but if you want to send and

receive email or purchase goods and services online then you are

required to have your own email account. No booking is necessary.

Just turn up and you can almost always get a seat. At the Uckfield

Internet café the advantages are:

1. Internet access.

2. No need to queue for a computer.

3. Instant Internet connection.

4. Fast response time.

5. Stay as long as you need.

6. Print out easily on our laser printer.

7. Web mail and messenger access.