Introduction

What are ICT?

ICT is an acronym that stands for Information Communications Technology

A good way to think about ICT is to consider all uses of digital technology that exist to help individuals, businesses and organisations use information. ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. For example, personal computers, digital television, email, robots.

So ICT is concerned with the storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission or receipt of digital data. Importantly, it is also concerned with the way these different uses can work with each other.

Why ICT are important? 

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. It is also very important in our daily lives. The lack of appropriate information at the right time will result in low productivity, low quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information and even to do research which actually others had done or in other countries. Nowadays ICT can not be separated with our daily needs.

ICT has a great impact in our daily lives. For example, we can read our local newspaper using the online newspaper. Another example is we still can get connected with our family, relatives, or colleges even if we are abroad by using the electronic mail, yahoo messenger, call conference, or video conference.

Digital computer and networking has changed our economy concept to the economy with no boundary in time and space because of ICT. It brings a lot of advantages for economic development enabling millions of transactions to happen in an easy and fast way.

What are the characteristics of ICT?

Immateriality: you know that the information you handle is immaterial, that you can move it from one place to another instantly to different places.

Interactivity: ICTs will provide you with an exchange of information between you, the user and a computer that, if you do not know what ICTs are, you will know that this fact allows you to adapt the resources used to your characteristics.

Interconnection: it is a link between various technologies. The clearest example is the union of communication and computer technologies, which gave rise to email.

Instantaneity: the characteristic of transmitting certain information over a long distance and with extremely fast speed.

Digitization: all the information we process is in a single universal format. The photos, texts, audios, etc. They can be transmitted by any means.

Innovation: ICTs have been developed under the protection of development and the need to innovate. This has caused, in the social field, the creation of new means to further enhance communications. 

Mention 3 benefits and disadvantages of ICT

The benefits that ICTs can have are innumerable and we could write 3 articles talking about them. Its comfort, higher speed and distribution capacity allow millions of users in different parts of the world to connect with their computers or smartphones.

On the other hand, ICTs have inaugurated more specific work areas and with it, new forms of consumption of goods and services such as community managers or remote freelancers. 

With tic’s, you can be connected with anyone, anywhere in the world and quickly connect, buy or exchange information with just one click.

The disadvantages ICTs have been gradually promoting the disposition of information, without cataloguing it properly and it translates into a huge disorder in the content, causing premature access to it. This translates into ignorance and irresponsibility of the public, who do not know what information they handle or how to deal with it.

If you do not know what ICTs are, you have to know that there is a great disadvantage with respect to the enormous exposure to personal life and the almost obligatory connection with virtual communities, giving rise to unnecessary behaviour, social isolation or hyperstimulation of children. desired.

Only you can convert those disadvantages into advantages, ensuring at all times that the information you are handling is correct and adapts to your needs, otherwise, you will only waste time and not get anything of value in your search.

Describe some limitations of ICT

• hardware limitations - speed of components.

• software limitations - poorly written or incompatible software.

• communication limitations - comms bottleneck - shared broadband?

• inappropriate design - poorly designed.

• poor data control and mechanisms - GIGO, humans.