Information and Communication Technology

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Definition

Information

  • facts provided or learned about something or someone.

Communication

  • the imparting or exchanging of information or news.

Technology

  • machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.

ICT

Definition

  • use of different communication technologies such as phones, internet, computer, etc. to locate, save, send, and edit information.

Effects

  1. Business Process, Outsourcing Centers or Call center companies.
    • Teleperformance
    • iQor
    • Accenture
    • Concentrix
    • Sutherland
    • VXI
  2. 137 cellphones per 100 Filipinos. (2020)
  3. 19.3% Employment share (2010)
  4. Makati City - Selfie Capital of the World
  5. 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people (Time Magazine, 2014)
  6. Cebu City - 9th placer, 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people.

#TODO: continue later, too much statistics.

State

World Wide Web (WWW)

  • Definition
    • It is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.
    • It's a web of hyperlinked text with different types of information embedded to each website such as text, media, or other hyperlinks linking to another website.
  • Types

Trends

Convergence

  • Technological convergence is the synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task.
  • The tendency for different technological systems to evolve toward performing similar tasks.
  • Telephones, consoles, DVD/CD players, cameras, and etc. are being replaced with just a single phone since a phone can do everything as all of those without needing to buy them seperately.
  • These old devices are then becoming obsollete in favor of personal computers or smartphones.

Assistive Media

  • is a nonprofit service designed to help people who have visual and reading impairments.
  • A database of audio recordings is used to read to the user.
  • Speech-to-text
    • Dragon NaturalSpeaking
    • Dragon Dictate for Mac
    • wordQ + speakQ
    • TalkTyper
    • Windows Speech Recognition
    • Mac OS X Dictation
  • Text-to-speech
    • NaturalReader
    • Kurzweil 3000
    • Read & Write Gold
    • WYNN
    • Mac OS X TTS
  • Study Skills
    • Kurzweil 3000
    • Read & Write Gold
    • WYNN

Systems, Functions and Platforms

Online Systems

  • A system that is connected to the Internet.
  • An offline system would be a system that is disconnected from the Internet.

Online Functions

  • include email notifications from the server, the updating of web blacklists (lists of undesirable websites), updating of the list of file-sharing programs, and remote access to Child.
  • pretty much anything that requires the access to Web or API calls.

Online Platforms

  • an online marketplace that places one party in touch with another, such as buyers and sellers.

Categories

  • Social Media
  • Search Engines
  • Communications Services
  • Payment Systems
  • Advertising Platforms
  • Creative Content Outlets

References

Quarter 1

(1st Semester > Quarter 1 > Topics)

Date: August 04, 2023

Author: Paul Gerald D. Pare

Emacs 29.1 (Org mode 9.6.6)