ICT – Its Importance, Advantages and Challenges

ABSTRACT

Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extension of information technology (IT) that emphasises unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audiovisual, which enable users to access, store, transmit, comprehend, and manipulate information. ICT can also refer to the convergence of audiovisual, telephone, and computer networks via a single cable or link system. There are significant economic incentives to combine the telephone network and computer network system utilising a unified cabling, signal distribution, and management system. ICT is an umbrella phrase that encompasses all communication devices, such as radio, television, cell phones, computer and network hardware, satellite systems, etc., as well as the many services and devices that accompany them, such as video conferencing and distant learning. ICT also include analogue technologies, such as paper communication, and all modes of communication transmission. ICT is a vast field, and its principles are always growing. It includes any product that electronically stores, retrieves, manipulates, transmits, or receives digital information (e.g., personal computers including smartphones, digital television, email, or robots). Piyush Mathur, a philosopher, has discovered theoretical contrasts between interpersonal-communication technologies and mass-communication technologies. The Skills Framework for the Information Age is one of several approaches for describing and managing the skills of ICT professionals in the twenty-first century.

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