Living in the IT Era

It is considered to be an infrastructure and components that enable modern computing.

• ICT

• Computer

• System

• Technology

With the help of this, it is now easier to communicate with our love ones.

• Job Opportunities

• Socializing

• Communication

• Education

It can impact students learning when teachers are digitally literate and understand how to integrate it into curriculum.

• Job Opportunity

• Socializing

• Communication

• Education

It enables organizations to operate more efficiently, so employing staff with ICT skills is vital to the smooth running of any business.

• Job Opportunity

• Socializing

• Communication

• Education

The rapid and vast adoption of technologies is changing how we find partners, how we access information from the news, and how we organize to demand political change.

• Job Opportunities

• Socializing

• Communication

• Education

Increase in access to information and services that has accompanied the growth of the internet.

• Improved access to education

• Access to information

• Communication

• New tools, new opportunities

Examples of this are distance learning and online tutorials.

• Improved access to education

• Access to information

• Communication

• New tools, new opportunities

Cost savings by using e.g. VoIP instead of normal telephone, email/messaging instead of post, video conferencing instead of traveling to meetings, e-commerce web sites instead of sales catalogues. Access to larger, even worldwide, markets.

• Improved access to education

• Access to information

• Communication

• New tools, new opportunities

ICT gives access to new tools that did not previously exist:  digital cameras, photo editing software and high quality printers, screen magnification or screen reading software enables partially sighted or blind people to work with ordinary text rather than Braille.

• Improved access to education

• Access to information

• Communication

• New tools, new opportunities

ICT solves or reduces some security problems, e.g. Encryption methods can keep data safe from unauthorized people, both while it is being stored or while it is being sent electronically.

• Information management

• Security

• Distance learning

• Creation of new more interesting jobs