The impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Environmental Pollution in D8 Countries

Abstract

Nowadays the term of information and communication technology with its role in reduction and elimination of air pollution is concerned as a critical objective environment and environmental economy that seriously influenced on various aspects and dimensions of human life during recent years. the main hypothesis  states that Applying information and communication technology can help to achieve improvement in quality of environment and reduce environmental pollution but observation, evaluation, assessment along with analysis to clarify the measure and intensity of influences on the environment indifferent countries with various levels of development needs to have case study on this issue. The present paper has been compiled after theorical basis investigation and exploiting related module using method of panel data and F test in order to obtain estimates and values of impression of information and communication technology on environmental pollutions in D8 countries including iran during the period of 1994 – 2014. The results showed that by increasing of GDP the rate of pollution raises accordingly. Besides a mean relation between information and communication technology and reduction of air pollution has been obtained as well. Positive feature of the GDP per capita coafficiency logarithm presents the trace of increasing air pollution in lieu of GDP. Another words, the amount of pollution has risen in lieu of per capita income. This coefficient is estimated 1.927 in D8 countries. Thus it can be explained that developing and improving information and communication technology apart from positive subordinated results and achievements in the field of economy call hold proper and desired and optimistic environmental endeavors as well