Survey\ Towards a sustainable Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Iraq

Abstract

The past four decades have witnessed a rapid and tremendous development in information and communication technologies (ICT), which has led to development in various theoretical and practical fields. In addition, technological diffusion has become a prominent feature in developed countries, which made most developing countries seek to own it because it is the backbone and the main pillar of its development and prosperity. Although Iraq is a country with diverse and enormous resources and a dominant geographical position that makes it at the forefront of the regional and global economy, it still suffers from crises and stagnation due to regional and global conflicts as a battlefield, as well as successive mismanagement and lack of technological awareness in simulating the rapid development of ICT with modern and high technology. In this paper, we will come to learn in brief about the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its role in community development will be briefly identified. We also look at the general technological diffusion index by analysing its main and sub-indicators to the Arab countries group, and then we focus on the main obstacles and challenges facing it in Iraq. Last but not least, we will try to lay the scientific foundations according to modern ICT indicators to overcome and defuse those challenges, and finally we have made suggestions and recommendations that contribute to the achievement of the goal that we aspire for throughout this research.