Harambee University

Online Learning Centre

Management Information Systems
Activity-2
Valid for the second batch of MBA online students

Instruction: There are four short essay questions below. Please thoroughly
read chapter two Competing with Information Communication Technology in
the digital age and prepare a short report on the four questions. A minimum of
three pages and a maximum of 6 word document are the limits for the page
numbers of the summary. Due date is January 31, 2022. You report should be
uploaded to the university’s online learning management system, otherwise, it
will not be graded. This assignment worth 10 points of the total mark.

Questions:

1. Discuss the convergence phenomena of Information Communication

Technology.
2. Discuss the building blocks and purposes of Information Communication
Technology
3. Discuss two modalities of online communication i.e. Synchronous and
Asynchronous. Give some examples of both modalities.
4. Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ICT