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The document provides an introduction to information and communication technology (ICT), covering its history, uses in daily life, and impact on society. ICT is defined as infrastructure and components that enable computing. It is used for communication through social media and email, finding jobs online, and enhancing education with tools for interacting and sharing information. While ICT provides access to information, new opportunities, and lower communication costs, it also results in job losses due to automation, reduced personal interaction, and increased competition in some industries. The document aims to educate students on the role and influence of ICT.

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Lesson-1 Ict

The document provides an introduction to information and communication technology (ICT), covering its history, uses in daily life, and impact on society. ICT is defined as infrastructure and components that enable computing. It is used for communication through social media and email, finding jobs online, and enhancing education with tools for interacting and sharing information. While ICT provides access to information, new opportunities, and lower communication costs, it also results in job losses due to automation, reduced personal interaction, and increased competition in some industries. The document aims to educate students on the role and influence of ICT.

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INTRODUCTION TO

INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
GE Elective 1
Ms. Mary Joy C. Marasigan
CONTENTS
• Short History of ICT
• Uses of ICT In Our Daily Lives
• Impact of ICT in The Society
- Positive and Negative
SHORT HISTORY OF ICT
ICT, or information and communications technology (or
technologies), is the infrastructure and components that
enable modern computing.

Although there is no single, universal definition of ICT, the


term is generally accepted to mean all devices, networking
components, applications and systems that combined allow
people and organizations (i.e., businesses, nonprofit
agencies, governments and criminal enterprises) to interact
in the digital world.
USES OF ICT IN OUR DAILY LIVES
1. Communication

Nowadays people are in touch with the help of


ICT. Through chatting, E-mail, voice mail and
social networking people communicate with each
other. It is the cheapest means of
communication.
USES OF ICT IN OUR DAILY LIVES
2. Job Opportunities

• In the employment sector, ICT enables


organizations to operate more efficiently.
• Today, finding a job is different, you can just
use your smart phone, laptop, desktop or any
gadgets that is available in the comfort of your
home.
USES OF ICT IN OUR DAILY LIVES
3. Education

Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to


communicate, create, disseminate, store, and
manage information. In some contexts, ICT has
also become integral to the teaching-learning
Interaction.
USES OF ICT IN OUR DAILY LIVES
4. Socializing

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.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
▪ 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 VoIP phone 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.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
• 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.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
• 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.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
• 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.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
• 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 tool is used to
detect goods instead of the worker having to enter the item
and price manually.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
• 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.
IMPACT OF ICT IN THE SOCIETY
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT
• 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.
Any questions?

15
What is the
relevance of ICT in
your chosen
course?

16
Thanks!

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