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Technology linked to happiness, study claims

BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, analysed the results of a survey of 35,000 people around the world.

Access to communication tools was found to be the most valued.  It is partly because women tend to have a more central role in family and other social networks, said researcher Paul Flatters of Trajectory Partnership, which conducted the research on behalf of the BCS.

"Our hypothesis is that women in developing countries benefit more because they are more socially constrained in society," he added.

The study also found that the correlation does not appear to increase with age, despite the efforts of various countries to get their older populations online.

"Whether young or old, we're all social beings, we all have a need for the things IT access facilitates," said Mr Flatters.

We need ways to help recover those increasingly large parts of our lives that we have ceded to technology, to regain mastery over technology and learn to use it in a healthy and positive way," he said.
While having a computer is considered synonymous with a good education worldwide, the emerging middle classes of India think it is also a sign of prosperity, she said.

"Whether that prosperity in terms of monetary returns actually materialises is not documented, but it is very real in terms of perception," she said.



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