Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and ICT: Challenges of end-user adoption of digital life

While current information communication technologies and applications have the potential to alleviate some of the societal problems in everyday life, a recent survey shows that most end-users do not see these applications as being able to alleviate the challenges they face in their daily lives. juxtaposed against CTM's (Communication, Technology and Management) Digital Life Hierarchy, the survey results suggest that most end-users are in the "Basic Life" category, using ICT predominantly for communications and entertainment. The results of this survey also suggest that the Maslowian Hierarchy of Needs still predominate in most end-users' lives, and many are concerned with financial security, health care and education. Thus ICT applications such as tele-health and tele-medicine represent potential new areas of high revenue growth