Information Communication Technology Ict
Information Communication Technology Ict
Information Communication Technology Ict
Unit 6
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
The twenty-first century has been
characterized as the information No
age. achievements of
doubt, one of the greatest
this age has something to do with the
technology, especially the increasing power of
communications. ICT is providing an extra-
ordinary to hone our critical
opportunity thinkingproblem-solving
communicationand skills, skills,
creativity innovation. and
ICT - is an extended term for information
technology (IT) which stresses the role of
unified communications and the integration of
telecommunications. The phrase information
and communications technology has been
used by academic researchers since
1980s, and the abbreviation became
the
ICT
popular after it was used in a report to the UK
government by Dennis Stevenson in 1997.
Benefits of ICT to:
1. Economic
2. Political
3. Social
4. Cultural
5. Personal
Researcher make it clear that ICT advances
social improvement by sharing learning,
encouraging social innovativeness, expanding
popularity based support and upgrading
social We are
cohesion. potential challenged
harnessthe
communication to of
technology to promote the
attainment of a more information
peaceful, just and
and
prosperous world.
ICT positively affected the life of the
members of the society or the digital citizens
through:
COMPUTER
• 3000 BC – Abacus, 1st calculator
• 1833 – Charles Babbage - designed the
Analytical Engine which was became the
concept of a digital programmable
computer.
• 1931 1 st electronic calculator
assembled
– by Kondrad
was Zuse
RADIO AND TELEVISION
• 1894 – Guglielmo Marconi invented
the
“wireless telegraphy” (radio telegraph
system) which way to
paved development of the
Radio.
• 1920’s – Commercial Radio, Earliest television
transmission