Information and Communication Technology: Concept and Importance

 Importance of Information and Communication Technology(ICT) It creates an analytical mind of students that help them study and proffer solutions to problems emanating from all related fields that employ it as a learning tool. Being an emerging academic field of study, it helps students to be innovative and develop new ways of solving problems scientifically. It makes information storage and retrieval easy. It enhances computer networking globally known today as internet and intranet. It accelerates economic development nationally as it is a virile source of national income for all nations that have fully embraced its usefulness. It creates gainful employment, hence a viable source of livelihood. It makes comprehension of other subjects easy. Virtually all fields of learning are amenable to ICT such as the application of projector for teaching in the classroom. It creates an avenue for the exchange of ideas and inventions among information technology scholars locall...

  Meaning of Information and Communication  Technology Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is a broader term for Information Technology (IT), which refers to all communication technologies, including the internet, wireless networks, cell phones, computers, software, middleware, video-conferencing, social networking, and other media applications and services enabling users to access, retrieve, store, transmit, and manipulate information in a digital form. ICTs are also used to refer to the convergence of media technology such as audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks, by means of a unified system of cabling (including signal distribution and management) or link system. However, there is no universally accepted definition of ICTs considering that the concepts, methods and tools involved in ICTs are steadily evolving on an almost daily basis. In short, Information and Comm...

 The Scope of Information and Communication Technology(ICT) Information and Communication Technology is a field that has a wide coverage. It extensively deals with communication technology and how it impacts on other fields of human endeavor. It is the fastest growing academic field of study and a viable source of livelihood. It is the convergence of telephone and computer networking through a single cabling system with ease of data storage, manipulation, management, and retrieval. It is concerned with database management, computer programming, and software development. Web designing, mobile application development, project management, security, networking analysis, media equipment, computer engineering, computer studies, the internet, intranet, internet protocol (IP), system software, application software, signal technology, base station management etc. Information and Communication Technology as a Field of Study Information technology inclusion in most high schools curriculu...