Information and Communication Technology

1.1.9 ICTs for the Environment 

By improving monitoring and response systems, facilitating environmental activism and enabling more efficient resource use, ICTs can make a valuable contribution to sustainable environmental management.

Through ICT-enabled monitoring of ecological conditi ons, prevention and mitigation measures can be deployed. In addition, ICTs can be deployed to monitor and respond to environmental disasters.

· National development and environmental policies depend on the expert analysis of information that is increasingly supported by ICT applications. For example, remote sensing has been fundamental to the identification of environmental problems, as has comput er modelling to the understanding of the origins and evolution of such problems.

· The broader discussion of development and environmental issues that often drives national policies is also increasingly facilitated by ICTs. Electronic media have increasingl y been responsible for public education about the environment and sustainable development.