(i) Positive effects of digitalisation
- Due to digitalisation, closer crossborder ties.
- It makes our lives better and easy. It is a most essential technology.
- It makes people become more efficient and this leads to increased productivity.
- Digitalisation saves time, cost and gives quick and precise service,
- Digitalisation boosts the country to do cashless transactions.
- For example, for filing Income Tax returns, obtaining Birth and Death Certificates from the Municipal Corporation, for online admission, for declaration of election results, etc. Nowadays all these processes make use of digitalisation and it has radically transformed the processes, compared to those used just a few decades ago.
(ii) Negative effects of digitalisation
- The excessive use of digital technology has health hazards like affecting sleep.
- Preventing children from engaging in physical activity that resulting in cases of obesity among children.
- In extreme cases, there can be mental illnesses like social isolation, aggression, etc.
- In short, it affects social, physical, and mental health.
- Due to the acceptance of digitalisation big industries take over the smaller ones.
- One of the major problems is individual privacy in the web world. This is always under threat.
