WOMEN AND INFORMATION

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
(ICT)

MEANING OF ICT
Information and communications technology (ICT) refers to all the
technology used to handle telecommunications, broadcast media,
intelligent building management systems, audio-visual processing and
transmission systems, and network-based control and monitoring
functions.
Although ICT is often considered an extended synonym for information
technology (IT), its scope is more broad.

HISTORY OF ICT
The phrase Information and Communication Technologies has
been used by academic researchers since the 1980s
The term ICT became popular after it was used in a report to
the UK government by Dennis Stevenson in 1997 and in the
revised National Curriculum for England, Wales and Northern
Ireland in 2000

ROLE OF ICT for

empowering Rural
women
Today is the era of Information Communication Technology (ICT).
Various ICT tools are used to educate and inform the rural people.
For generations, rural people have been living in complete isolation
without much access to modern media of communication. The
development of a society largely depends on the access to
information. Even though we live in the modern era, today, in the
rural areas, women are suffering from various problems such as
less accessibility to modern information sources.

Meet 4 women whose inventions and

innovations have shaped todays IT.
Also known as mother of technology.
1. SUSAN KARE
She also created the Happy Mac icon, which greeted Apple users
when they booted their machines, and the trash can icon, which
let users know where to put files they no longer wanted.
2. GRACE HOPPER
Called the Queen of Software by some and Grandma COBOL by
others, Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper helped invent some of
the early English-language programming languages. She is most
famously associated with the Common Business-Oriented
Language (COBOL), which was based on the flow-mate
language that she designed back in 1958.

3. MARY LOU JIPSEN

Mary Lou Jipsen knows that the screen is the gateway to all
of the transformative powers that a computer can hold. She
co-founded and served as the chief technology officer of
Micro Display in 1995, where worked on creating small
screens.

2. Radia Perlman
Network engineer Radia Perlman helped make Ethernet
technology a household name. Her Spanning Tree Protocol
(STP) made it possible to build massive networks using
Ethernet by creating a mesh network of layer-2 bridges and
then disabling the links that arent part of the tree.

MAJOR TECH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM

ENTERPENURIAL WOMEN
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, women's share of
STEM jobs has not increased over the past decade, despite the
demographics' rise in college degrees.
This Women's History Month (March), we're celebrating the
innumerable contributions from women toward today's tech
landscape. Women have created computer programming
languages, changed the way we connect on social networks and
innovated in the e-commerce space.

women have a long history in tech. Ada Lovelace, a

women who lived in Britain in the 1800s, is considered
the first computer programmer. Grace Hopper developed
the first computer compiler. And without the work of
Radia Perlman, the female developer of the Ethernet the
spanning tree protocol, the modern Internet wouldn't be
what it is today.
Each year, more cutting edge applications and scientific
advancements come from women, a largely
underrepresented demographic in STEM fields. However,
many of the few women holding STEM degrees opt out
of the field for careers in education or healthcare.

THANKSS..