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What is ICT or
Information & Communication Technology?
Basically, ICT is the

infrastructure and
components that
enable modern
computing.
ICT refers to all the technology used to handle telecommunications,

broadcast media, intelligent building management systems, audiovisual
processing and transmission systems, and network-based control and
monitoring functions. --Techopedia
ICT refers to technologies that provide access
to information through telecommunications.
It is similar to Information Technology(IT),
but focuses primarily on communication
technologies. This includes the Internet,
wireless networks, cell phones, and other
communication mediums.
—Cambridge dictionary
ICT is an extensional term for information
technology that stresses the role of unified
communications and the integration of
telecommunications and computers, as well
as necessary enterprise software, middle-
ware, storage and audiovisual systems, that
enable users to access, store, transmit, and
manipulate information.--Wikipedia
USES OF ICT IN OUR DAILY LIVES
Communication
We all know that ICT take a major role
for us by means of communicating,
way back in the past our parents use
to make letter and send it via post
mail. But now with the help of ICT it is
easier to communicate with our love
ones. We can use cellular phones
that design for communicating with
other people even they are miles
away far from you. Nowadays people
are in touch with the help of ICT.
 Through chatting, E-mail, voice
mail and social networking, people
communicate with each other.
 ICT allows students to monitor and
manage their own learning, think
critically and creatively, solve
simulated real-world problems, work
collaboratively, engage in ethical
decision-making, and adopt a global
perspective towards issues and
ideas.
 It also provides students from remote
areas access to expert teachers and
learning resources.
Job Opportunities
In the employment sector, ICT enables organizations to operate
more efficiently, so employing staff with ICT skills is vital to the
smooth running of any business. Being able to use ICT systems
effectively allows employees more time to concentrate on areas
of their job role that require soft skills.
For example: many pharmacies use robot technology to assist
with picking prescribed drugs. This allows highly trained
pharmaceutical staff to focus on jobs requiring human
intelligence
and interaction, such
as dispensing and
checking medication.
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Education
Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) can impact
student learning
when teachers are digitally
literate and
understand how to integrate
it into curriculum.
Schools use a diverse set of ICT
tools to communicate,
create,
disseminate,
ICT has also store,
become and
integral to the teaching learning interaction, through
such approaches manage
as replacing chalkboards with interactive digital
information.
whiteboards, using students’ own smartphones or other devices for
learning during class time.
And the “flipped classroom model” where students watch lectures
at home on the computer and use classroom time for more
interactive exercises.
Socializing
 Social media has changed the world. The rapid and vast
adoption of these technologies is changing how we find
partners, how we access information from the news, and how
we organize to demand political change.
 The internet and social media provide young people with a
range of benefits, and opportunities to empower themselves in
a variety of ways.
 Young people can maintain social connections and support
networks that otherwise wouldn't be possible and can access
more information than ever before.
 The communities and social interactions young people from
online can be invaluable for bolstering and developing young
people's self-confidence and social skills.
Impact of ICT in The Society
Positive impacts:
 Access to information:
Increase in access to
information and services that
has accompanied the growth
of the Internet. Some of the
positive aspects of this
increased access are better,
and often cheaper
communications, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
and Instant Messaging.
 Improved access to education, e.g.
distance learning and online tutorials.
New ways of learning, e.g. interactive
multi-media and virtual reality.
 New tools, new opportunities: ICT

gives access to new tools that did not
previously exist: digital cameras,
photo-editing software and high quality
printers, screen magnification or
screen reading software enables
partially sighted or blind people to work
with ordinary text rather than Braille.
 Communication:
Cost savings by using e.g. VoIP instead of
normal telephone, email /messaging
instead of post, video conferencing
instead of traveling to meetings,
e-commerce web sites instead of sales
catalogues. Access to larger, even
worldwide markets.
 Information management: Data mining of customer
information to produce lists for targeted advertising.
Improved stock control, resulting in less wastage,
better cash flow, etc.
 Security: ICT solves or reduces some security

problems, e.g. Encryption methods can keep data safe
from unauthorized people, both while it is being stored
or while it is being sent electronically.
 ICT allows people to
participate in a
wider, even
worldwide, society.
 Distance learning:
students can access
teaching materials from all
over the world.
 ICT facilitates the ability
to perform ‘impossible’
experiments’ by using
simulations.
 Creation of new more
interesting jobs.
Examples would be
systems analysts,
programmers and
software engineers, as
well as help desk
operators and trainers.
Negative impacts
 Job loss: Manual
operations being replaced
by automation. e.g. robots
replacing people on an
assembly line.
 Job export. e.g. Data
processing work being
sent to other countries
where operating costs are
lower.
 Multiple workers being replaced by a smaller number who are
able to do the same amount of work. e.g. A worker on a
supermarket checkout can serve more customers per hour if
a bar-code scanner linked to a computerized till is used to
detect goods instead of the worker having to enter the item
and price manually.
 Reduced personal
interaction: Most people
need some form of social
interaction in their daily
lives and if they do not get
the chance to meet and talk
with other people they may
feel isolated and unhappy.
 Reduced physical activity:
This can lead to health
problems such as obesity,
heart disease, and
diabetes.
 Cost: A lot of ICT hardware and software is
expensive, both to purchase and to maintain. An ICT
system usually requires specialist staff to run it and
there is also the challenge of keeping up with ever-
changing technology.
 Competition: this is usually thought of as being a good thing,
but for some organizations being exposed to greater
competition can be a problem. If the organization is competing
for customers, donations, or other means of funding nationally
or even internationally, they may lose out to other
organizations that can offer the same service for less money.

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 Security: ICT solves or reduces some security

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