Intro-to-ICT-part1 MST4 Week2 2024

MST4 – LIVING IN IT ERA
Introduction to ICT: Part 1
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WHAT IS ICT?
• short for Information and Communications Technology

• is the infrastructure and components that enable modern computing
• 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.
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ZUPPO (2012)
“related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various
types of electronically meditated communication”
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Mobile Signal Infrastructure Availability
Economic
Development Access
Mobile Devices
Crisis/Disease Management
Goods Produced/
Manufactured Phones, Tablets, Pagers, Others
Economic Related Services
Sector
Digital Economy Metric
ICT
Skills & Competencies
Phones, Tablets, Pagers,

Education Devices / Tools Includes Computers
Pedagogies Networks
Architectures Support Systems

Business/IT
Devices Phones, Tablets, Pagers, Others
ICT Hierarchy by Colrain Zuppo
- identifying key aspects such as ICT in education, business, economic sector.

- What do you think is common in all this? This classifications contain some degree
of commonality. The need for devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, others, is
identified in all instances.
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BAUMEISTER AND LEARY (1995)
The “belonginess hypothesis” states that people have a basic psychological
need to feel closely connected to others, and that caring, affectionate bonds
from close relationships are a major part of human behavior.
This need can be fulfilled through different modes of communication.

ICT is everywhere. Access is relatively affordable and somewhat effortless.
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BREAKDOWN OF ICT
• Information – refers to the knowledge obtained from reading, investigation,

study or research. Processed data.
• Communication – is an act of transmitting messages. It is a process in which
information is exchanged between individuals through verbal and non-verbal
means.
• Technology – the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes,
especially in industry. Made communication much easier and faster through
telephones, computers and mobile devices.
1. Information – not to be confused with data, information is processed data.

• Processed information is called knowledge. It helps fulfill daily tasks.
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IT VS. ICT
• ICT is technology that supports activities involving information, such as

gathering, processing, storing and presenting data, involving collaboration
and communication.
• IT or information technology, pertains to the industry that involves computers,
software, networking and other IT infrastructure for managing and
communicating information
• Wang (2016): IT is a subset of ICT as the technology used in the field of IT
aids in the use of ICT.
IT vs. ICT. In the United States, the term information technology (IT) is used
more often in the context of business operations, while ICT is used more
often in education and government content.
IT helps strengthen companies with the existence of a set of IT personnel that

are equipped with servers, database management systems, and security
measures for protecting confidential information about the company. Without
IT, all of the company’s important data can easily be compromised by many
outside attackers and hackers alike.
In an IT department, there are several specialists like a system administrator,

IT manager, network engineer, computer programmer, and other IT experts
that are all tasked with different specific roles. The core services of IT are
summarized as giving tools that hasten company productivity,
automates business processing, establishes a way to connect effectively with
valuable customers or clients, and also the basic core service of supplying
information. The more specific sub-tasks included in these core services are
installing programs or computer software, building computer networks,
designing an effective electronic system, and also managing an entire bulk of
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information in the form of databases.
ICT is used in the academe for the benefit of the individual or the institution
which is smaller in size than the ones handled by IT professionals in bigger
industries. ICT can be as simple as utilizing audiovisual equipment for learning
at school, the use of electronic telephony and other devices that help transmit
information across the campus. Since 1997, ICT has also been recognized as
the incorporation of telephony and audiovisual devices in computers. This
direction helped academic institutions cut down the cost of operations, most
especially in the removal of traditional telephone networks.
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The International
Communication Union (ITU)
conducts annual study on the
use of ICT around the world.
The report is called the ICT
Development Index (IDI).
ITU’s Measuring digital development: The 2024 edition of ITU’s ICT Development
Index (IDI) shows that progress has been made towards universal and meaningful
connectivity – defined as the ability for everyone to go online under optimal
conditions, at an affordable cost, anywhere and anytime they need – with low-
income economies showing most improvement.
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Note: Based on the 165 economies covered in both editions.Bars represent the point scores in
IDI 2023 and 2024 (scale on the left-hand vertical axis), dots show the year-on-year percentage
change (right-hand axis).
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EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY
• The evolution of technology has always depended on one thing: THE HUMAN RATIONALE.
• Humans tend to think of ways on how to discharge tasks or workloads, or do daily activities.
• The concept of technology always starts with the basic tool.
• By combining a set of tools, machines were made that can do task faster and more efficiently.
• Computer is a type of machine that is an electronic device for storing and processing data.
• Automation – the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate
automatically.
• Intelligent System / Artificial Intelligence – systems that are capable of learning.
Wheel > Vehicles > Toyota automated production of cars > Self-drive cars
Automation includes broad range of technologies normally connecting computer

systems to other systems
AI example – robotics, smart assistants
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ASSIGNMENT
• Group 1 - History of Computer

• Group 2 - Components of a Computer – Input Devices
• Group 3 - Components of a Computer – Output Devices
• Group 4 - Components of a Computer – System Unit
• Group 5- Components of a Computer – Storage Devices
• Group 6 - Computer Classification (personal computer, mainframe etc.)
• Group 7 - Types of Computer (desktop, laptop etc.)
Research and report to the class by topic.

Group of 7
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• Caoili-Tayuan, Ronina R. and Eleazar, Mia V. (2019). Living in the
Information Technology Era
• Pratt, Mary K. (July 2019). ICT (information and communications
technology, or technologies)
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/ICT-information-and-
communications-technology-or-technologies
• ITU-D ICT Statistics: https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/d-ind-ict_mdd-

2024-3/
REFERENCES • Difference Between ICT and IT:
http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-
ict-and-it/#ixzz7daMg4W4p
• Gregersen, Erik. "History of Technology Timeline". Encyclopedia
Britannica, Invalid Date, https://www.britannica.com/story/history-of-
technology-timeline. Accessed 1 September 2022.
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MST4 – LIVING IN IT ERA

Introduction to ICT: Part 1

• short for Information and Communications Technology

Phones, Tablets, Pagers,

Architectures Support Systems

ICT Hierarchy by Colrain Zuppo

- identifying key aspects such as ICT in education, business, economic sector.

This need can be fulfilled through different modes of communication.

• Information – refers to the knowledge obtained from reading, investigation,

1. Information – not to be confused with data, information is processed data.

• ICT is technology that supports activities involving information, such as

IT helps strengthen companies with the existence of a set of IT personnel that

In an IT department, there are several specialists like a system administrator,

Automation includes broad range of technologies normally connecting computer

• Group 1 - History of Computer

Research and report to the class by topic.

• ITU-D ICT Statistics: https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/d-ind-ict_mdd-

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