Analysis of Barriers to ICT4D Interventions in Higher Education through Interpretive Structural Modeling

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the integration of information and communication technologies in the education sector and identify the most promising barriers that affect the efficient implementation of these technologies in the education sector.For this study, various research papers were analysed and a survey was conducted to identify the barriers that affect the integration of information and communication technologies in the education sector. Interpretive Structured Modeling (ISM) methodology has been used in this work to level up the barriers to identify which among the identified barriers is the most and the least significant.The findings reveal that Limited Awareness is the most significant barrier to the implementation of ICTs in the education sector along with other barriers which include Poor Infrastructure, Budget, Lack of Experience, Privacy, Lack of Communication, Resistance to Change, Restricted Training on New Software, Management Issues and Complex to Implement.