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Informationtechnology 150219052234 Conversion Gate01
Informationtechnology 150219052234 Conversion Gate01
Contents:
Introduction
History of IT
Present role of IT
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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Information technology is a contemporary term that
describes the combination of computer technology
(hardware and software) with telecommunications
technology (data, image, and voice networks).
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In some companies, this is referred to as
Management Information Services (or MIS) or
simply as Information Services (or IS).
These innovations enable the processing and
storage of enormous amounts of information, along
with rapid distribution of information through
communication networks
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Computer Use
The purpose of a computer is to process data into
information
Data consist of the raw facts and figures that are
processed into information
Information is data that has been summarized or
otherwise manipulated for use in desicion making
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Hardware and software
revolution
The diminishing cost of personal computers has put
computing power within the reach of even the
smallest contractors.
Rapidly developing hardware performance, coupled
with the development of storage drives with very
large volumes, modems, scanners, and back up
devices has made the computer suitable for storage
and distribution of drawings and other data in
electronic format.
The evolution of servers, network cards, modems and
routers have linked computers together providing a
forum for community collaboration.
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Internet
The value of the Internet to construction
companies derives from its ability to easily connect
globally to a vast amount of data, which would
otherwise have taken more time and money to
organise. By exploiting the resources of the Internet
construction companies can gain the following
benefits.
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On-line services: The rapid development of the
Internet and the World Wide Web has enabled many
services that traditionally required face to face
meetings to be delivered on-line.
Internet distance learning: opportunities of university
education, widening access to higher education
(delivering teaching and learning to people who
cannot attend lectures)-increases a country’s
competitiveness in a global market.
E-business: Internet provides a virtual market place for
buyers, suppliers, distributors and sellers to
exchange information, negotiate and trade
Teleworking: Flexibility in working conditions, less
office space, more productive workers.
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How is information technology being used in
education?
E-mail
Distance learning
How are computers being used in health and
medicine?
Telemedicine
Robots
How will computers affect my financial matters?
Virtual money
Micro-Credits
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History and Development of Information
Technology
In the 1960s and 1970s, the term information
technology (IT) was a little known phrase that was used by
those who worked in places like banks and hospitals to
store information. With the paradigm shift to computing
technology and "paperless" workplaces, information
technology has come to be a household phrase. It defines
an industry that uses computers, networking, software
programming, and other equipment and processes to
store, process, transmit, and protect information.
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Software development and computer
programming were best left to the computer scientists
and mathematical engineers, due to their complicated
nature. As time passed and technology advanced, such as
with the advent of the personal computer in the 1980s and
its everyday use in the home and the workplace, the world
moved into the information age.
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Modern Technology
By the early 21st century, nearly every child in the
Western world, and many in other parts of the world,
knew how to use a personal computer. Businesses'
information technology departments have gone from
using storage tapes created by a single computer
operator to interconnected networks of employee
workstations that store information in a server farm,
often somewhere away from the main business site.
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Technology facilitate our life
Technology and information may be regarded as
two things are mutually binding. Both support functions
that are fairly similar. Advances in technology are
always facilitate the delivery of information. The rate
information from one country can spread rapidly to
other countries, even to all countries, through
increasingly sophisticated technology.
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Impact of Advanced Information
Technology
Advances in information technology is to be
grateful and appreciated as a remarkable achievement.
Therefore, we must take advantage of advances in
information technology is to do positive things.
Why is that?
In fact, advances in information technology not only
provides a positive effect. Many also brought along the
negative impact of information technology advances.
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Here's a positive impact of information technology
development.
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Besides positive impacts, advances in
information technology have a negative effect.
The rapid advancement in information technology,
internet and other media, facilitate the entry of banned
sites and violence.
Ease of transactions via the Internet will provide
opportunities to perform transacts forbidden, such as
drug and contraband transactions.
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The Role of IT
It is accepted that telecommunication is a basic
infrastructure necessary for economic and social
development of a country.
This is even becoming more strong than ever as
information related economic activities are growing.
Information and communications technology may be
described as the support of the central nervous
system of complex societies, transmitting and
processing information and commands among the
various parts of such societies.
Internet plays a fundamental function in IT role
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Benefits from IT
Information and communications technology carries
on high promise both in human and economic terms.
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IT is useful in all areas
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Thank you for your attention
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