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INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION

AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
By
Muhammad Shafiq

National College Of Business


Administration And Economics
Introduction:
ICT is an abbreviation of a term “Information and Communication Technology”.

• New or Modern Technologies


• Analysis
• Storage
• Processing
• Communication of Information
• Information
• Communication and
• Technology
Introduction:
Information:
Raw facts arranged in a suitable form
Data:
Collection of facts, it is raw material for information
• Information:

• Information is generally referred to data which can be recorded, organized and interpreted
within a context in order to convey meaning.

• Example:

• National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA)


Communication:
“Communication is basically the transfer of ideas and messages among people through different systems,
devices or media”.

Examples:
• Computer
• Internet
• Cell Phone
• Telephone
• Television
• Radio
Technology:
• “Any system, Product or machine which can receive, store or transmit data/information
electronically in digital form”

• Examples:

• Personal Computers
• Digital Television
• Internet
Basic Concept of ICT:
• Umbrella comprising of different communication devices

• Applications:
• Radio
• Television
• Satellite Systems
• Internet
• Cellular Phones
• Computer
Examples:
• Youare a part of “Always Online”
generation.

• You live in a world quite different from


that of my time and your parents and
grandparents time.

• Thisgeneration is accustomed to spending


most of their time in a day looking at
various screens; on cellphones, on
computers, or TVs.
Top innovations of the last 30 years
Basic Concept of ICT
• ICT is techniques to provide information
• Similar to IT but different technologies
• Internet:
• Email
• Social Network
• Search engine
• Cell Phone:
• Communication
Info-Tech & Your Life:
• When computer and communications
technologies are combined, the result is info-tech.
• IT isa general term that describes any technology
that helps to produce, manipulate, store,
communicate, and/or disseminate information.

• IT merges
computing with high-speed
communications links carrying data, sound, and
video.
Role of ICT in Society
• Education
• Business
• Training
• Health
• Environment
• Employment or Government etc.
Education:
• Perhaps you will agree that information and communication technology is being
used at school and college levels.

• Internet has penetrated in almost every home in big cities.

• Most students have been exposed to computers since the lower class.

• Mostly students used computers between the ages 5 and 8.


Education:
• E-learning has been put to such varied uses as bringing career
and technical courses to high school students in remote prairie
towns.

• Virtual Webinars using internet

• Pairinggifted students with teachers in other parts of the


country.
• Students sitting in Quetta can be taught by a teacher in Karachi.
• Teacher of Quran sitting in Karachi (Pakistan) can teach somebody in Houston (USA).
Health:
• Medical care via telecommunications lets
doctors treat patients from far away

• 3D Computer models allow accurate tumor


location inside a skull

• Robots permit precise micro-surgery

• Health websites provide medical information.


ICT Applications:
• Computer
• Internet
• Cell Phone
• Smart Watch

Computer:
“A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information, or data. It has the ability to store, retrieve,
and process data.”
Different form of Computer:
• Analog Computer
• Digital Computer

• Analog Compute:
• An analog computer which is used to process
analog data.

• Digital Computer:
• Today most commonly type of computer that input
information using discrete rather than continuous, is
called digital computer that use ‘binary digits’.
Internet:
• The internet is the wider network that allows computer networks around the world run by
companies, governments, universities and other organizations to talk to one another.
Advantages:
• Online sale and purchase
• Source of entertainment(movies/music)
• Software’s and Document’s
• Documents sharing with each other through internet.
• Searching through various search engine’s like google, yahoo etc.
• People communication through email, skype or social networking websites
(Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter).
Cell Phone:
• Calling
• Instant messaging
• Listening music
• Watching videos
• Play games
• Using internet
• Maintaining facebook many more
• Simple phone and multimedia-
phone
ICT in Teaching and Learning:
• ICT put positive effects in education sector
• ICT enables teaching and learning very well
• Teach well
• present well
• Work efficiently
• Share ideas easily
• Solve different problems easily
• Gain precise knowledge
• Achieve goals in less time period
• Class room teaching with multimedia

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