tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61972405169399521182024-02-20T18:15:41.274-08:00Information and Communication Technologyvikrant naikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06407057142569349003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197240516939952118.post-57529102484699904102013-07-11T04:36:00.004-07:002013-07-11T04:37:20.633-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Information and Communication Technology.</h2>
<b>Information and Communications Technology</b> or (<b>ICT</b>), is often used as an extended synonym for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a> (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_communications" title="Unified communications">unified communications</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ICT-D-00_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology#cite_note-ICT-D-00-1">[1]</a></sup> and the integration of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications" title="Telecommunications">telecommunications</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone" title="Telephone">telephone</a> lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_software" title="Enterprise software">enterprise software</a>, middle-ware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
The phrase <i>ICT</i> had been used by academic researchers since the 1980s,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> but it became popular after it was used in a report to the UK government by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Stevenson,_Baron_Stevenson_of_Coddenham" title="Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham">Dennis Stevenson</a> in 1997<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> and in the revised <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Curriculum_%28England,_Wales_and_Northern_Ireland%29" title="National Curriculum (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)">National Curriculum</a> for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000.<br />
The term <i>ICT</i> is now also used to refer to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_%28telecommunications%29" title="Convergence (telecommunications)">convergence</a> of audio-visual and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_network" title="Telephone network">telephone networks</a> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network" title="Computer network">computer networks</a>
through a single cabling or link system. There are large economic
incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone
network) to merge the audio-visual, building management and telephone
network with the computer network system using a single unified system
of cabling, signal distribution and management.<br />
The term Info communications is used in some cases as a shorter form of information and communication(s) technology. In fact <i>Info-communications</i> is the expansion of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications" title="Telecommunications">telecommunications</a> with information processing and content handling functions on a common
digital technology base. For a comparison of these and other terms.<br />
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