Honours 1st Year Assignment on IT vs ICT for Course "Introduction to Information and Communication Technology(104)"

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 Objectives:  

  • Comprehensive introduction to the term IT and ICT 

  • Know the difference between IT and ICT 

  • Apply them in practical life 

 

ICT and IT is a broad idea of modern technology. ICT stands for 'Information and Communication Technology'. IT stands for 'Information Technology'.  

They are closely related but different from each other. The main difference is that IT is more widely used within industry, whereas ICT is applied to the academic and education side and used in places of learning. It can be briefly described. But when it is turn to differentiate IT and ICT this short description is not applicable. 

 

IT: 

 

Information technology (IT) is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. The term in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review, in which authors Leavitt and Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology (IT). 

 

IT refers to an entire industry that uses computers, networking, software and other equipment to manage information. Generally, IT departments are responsible for storing, processing, retrieving and protecting digital information of the company. For achieving these tasks, they are equipped with computers, DBMS, servers and security mechanisms, etc. Professionals working in IT departments range from system administrators, database administrators to programmers, network engineers and IT managers. When executing a business, IT facilitates the business by providing four sets of core services. These core services are providing information, providing tools to improve productivity, business process automation and providing means to connect with customers. Currently, IT has become an essential part in business operations and has provided lot of job opportunities worldwide. Knowledge in IT has become essential to succeed in the workplace. Typically, IT professionals are responsible for a range of duties including simple tasks such as installing software to complex tasks such as designing and building networks and managing databases. 

 

 



 

 

ICT: 

 

Information and communications technology, usually called ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT) but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications, intelligent building management systems and audio-visual systems in modern information technology. ICT consists of all technical means used to handle information and aid communication, including computer and network hardware, communication middleware as well as necessary software. In other words, ICT consists of IT as well as telephony, broadcast media, all types of audio and video processing and transmission and network based control and monitoring functions. The expression was first used in 1997 in a report by Dennis Stevenson to the UK government and promoted by the new National Curriculum documents for the UK in 2000. 

 

ICT is at the convergence of a tripod made of three specialized domains, namely information technology, data and information, and socioeconomic issues, to fuse the capabilities and functionality of each specialized domain into a holistic yet fluid domain that works to develop a customized information system for each user. Information technology (IT) or informatics was defined in 1990 as  

  1. the aggregation of information-related fields, such as computer hardware and software, telecommunications networks and equipment, and information technology-based industries; and  

 

  1. The application of these technologies in all economic sectors, publishing, broadcasting, libraries, data banks, and other information services industries.  

 

Brief differentiation between IT and ICT: 

IT refers to an entire industry that uses computers, networking, software and other equipment to manage information, whereas ICT can be seen as an integration of IT with media broadcasting technologies, audio/ video processing and transmission and telephony. Therefore, ICT can be seen as an extended acronym for IT. The term ICT is widely used in the context of education, whereas IT is a term widely used in the industry. In addition, recently, ICT is also used to refer to the integration of telephone and audio/ visual networks with computer networks. In simplest terms, ICT can be seen as the integration of information technology with communication technology. 

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