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Technology, globalization and the rise of digital economies are changing the
landscape of our world. The transition from primitive society to industrial society took
centuries, but the industrial society has changed to a society based on information in the
short span of a few decades. As the industrial society was based on manufacturing, the
current era of the information society is based on the use of information as a resource.
The ability to record, synthesize, and use information through computers is called
Information Technology1. With the age of information technology and communications
in the 21st century, the distances that once existed between various regions of the world
have vanished and the world has converged into one large society and market with
various groups of people having inherent differences. In such an era, people have
constant access to their information through computing systems from publicly shared
points, anywhere in the world.
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