INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

ASSALAMUALAIKUM!

 I begin the post with Suratul Fatihah as we always begin the class with. In this week we learned about Information Communication Technology and Information Technology. In my words IT and ICT are

All the same but ICT emphasizes on communication technologies which include internet, networks,

Cell phones, and so on. Usage of ICT is now part of our daily life.

ICT in Education, Health sector, Banking sector, and Business sector.

Uses of ICT in Education.

It makes learning in school very easy. The use of electronic board, access information on the internet and online education. It also makes doctors to detect illness very quickly. The use of x-ray machine and so on. Banking sector, it uses it for automated teller machine,El-banking,Electronic Data interchange and Our business sector, is been used for communication, and doing business .

Information technology is used to create, store, exchange and use information.

 Information technology architecture it is the plan or design of information tools in an organization.

Information technology Infrastructure is the physical facilities like IT component, IT services, and IT personnel that

Support an entire organization.

IT component made of computer hardware, software, and communication technologies.

IT personnel made of people and individual.

IT services  provides services for people and customers.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA AND INFROMATION, THE ECONOMICS AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Assalamualaikum!

As usual we started our class with suratul Fatihah since we missed last week’s lecture our lecturer start

With an ice breaking, rules in the class, course outline, assessment and introduction to information technology. Before we started the first topic we had a recap on what is Computer? It’s operation system, history of computer and it categories.

In the Second session, the differences between data, information, the economics, and problems associated with information management.

Data is a raw fact

Information is a data that is process, organized and becomes useful.

Input and Output data

Input is a data or instruction put into the memory of a computer

Output is a data that is processed into useful information.

We also learned the roles of information.

It is used to persuade and influence

It is used to make decision

It can be capital resources for certain companies

In the third session, we learned about qualities of valuable information and they are 

Accurate, verifiable, timely, organized, complete and useful.

Data integrity and the degree in which data is correct, that is garbage in and garbage out.

Economics of information in today's business has great impact in many industries.

The two basic elements and three components are reach and richness and bandwidth, customization and interactivity. It functions. It also explain the richness of information because of connectivity of internet, web standard

And application standard and how it works.  Communication from sender to medium to receiver.

They share resources, information and promoting and collaborating communication.

  Last session three was about information management...just like managing any kind of information. Information management is made up of system like....

•   Web content management
•   Document management
•  Record management
•   Digital asset management
•   Learning management system
•   Learning content management.

      After the lectures we were given exercises on what we've learned and groups were formed to search about one of the information management and present it the following week.

.On Thursday we had an activity we were put in a group of five and our topic was using our creative imagination to list, draw or describe the usage of ICT banking in KENYA.