This document provides an overview of a foundation course on information technology. It outlines the objectives and expected outcomes of the course, which include understanding the role of IT in society, business, education and developing hardware and software skills. It also covers key topics like the evolution of IT, the role of IT in various fields like business, education, communication and healthcare. It discusses government initiatives in India related to IT like Aadhaar, e-Panchayat and the National Knowledge Network. The document provides guidance on potential IT projects students could undertake as part of the course.

1. Foundation Course
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Information Technology
Ankit Rajpal
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
DDUC

2. Information Technology
Objective and Expected outcome
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Role of IT in Education, Society, Business.
Solve practical problems using computers.
Hardware & Software competence.
Document preparation & Presentation Competence.
Effective, Secure & Legal use of internet use.
Encourage hands-on projects mode of learning.
Data base management.
Correlate: real world application theoretical knowledge.
Innovative use of IT.
Ability to switchover to open source technology.

3. Information Technology (IT) & Society
 Information, information processing & Information Technology.
 Evolution of IT
 Role of IT in:
• Business and entrepreneurship,
• Education,
• Communication,
• Entertainment,
• Healthcare,
• Agriculture
 Government’s Particular Initiatives:
• AADHAR,
• E-Panchayat,
• National Knowledge Network.

4. Information Concepts:
Data, Information, and Knowledge
• Data: raw facts
– Alphanumeric, image, audio, and video
• Information: collection of facts organized in
such a way that they have additional value
beyond the value of the facts themselves
– Value of Information is directly linked to how it
helps decision makers achieve their organization’s
goals and can be measured
• in time required to make a decision
• Increased profits to the company
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5. Data, Information, and Knowledge
The Process of Transforming Data into Information
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6. The Characteristics of Valuable Information
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7. The Characteristics of Valuable Information
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8. What Is an Information System?
The Components of any Information System

9. Evolution of IT
HARDWARE

10. Evolution of IT
HARDWARE
 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) proposal of April 1943.
 June 30, 1945: John Von Neumann published the First Draft of a Report on the
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), the first
documented discussion of the stored program concept and the blueprint for
computer architecture to this day.
 May 22, 1973: Bob Metcalfe “memo inventing Ethernet” at Xerox Palo Alto
Research Centre (PARC).
 March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee circulated “Information management: A
proposal” at CERN in which he outlined a global hypertext system. CERN made
the World Wide Web available to the world free of charge in April 1993.
 Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Dell, Apple, IBM, SAP, Yahoo, Amazon.
More………

11. Role of IT in the field of:
• Business and entrepreneurship: e-commerce, buying and
selling over internet, electronic fund transfer, smart cards,
ERP
• Education: A tool for communication, learning through
visualization (e-learning), problem-solving, training, virtual
classroom, research, tools for Physically Handicapped (PH)
• Communication: Mobile phones, email, chatting, webcast,
Skype.
• Entertainment: Movies, games,
• Healthcare: Diagnosis, Medical consultancy, surgery
• Agriculture: Weather forecasting, information dissemination

12. IT’s contribution in India’s development
• Easy and cost effective telecommunication
• Speedy and transparent
implementation of government’s
directives and policies
• Connecting educational institutions
• Improving transport communication

13. Government’s Particular IT Initiatives:

18. National Knowledge Network
NKN project is aimed at establishing a strong
and robust internal Indian network with a high
speed data communication network which is
capable of providing secure and reliable
connectivity, bring together all the stakeholders
from sciences, technology, higher education,
healthcare, agriculture and governance to a
common platform.

21. • Study a government website (delhi.gov.in)
lookout for e-facilities
• Study a bank’s website (www.sbi.co.in) lookout
for e-facilities
• Visit a nearby Panchayat and update them about
IT initiatives
• Prepare a document or presentation on change
made by use of IT your society/locality

26. Information Technology
Projects/Activities Guidelines
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Real life & practical problems
Inter-disciplinary
Connected to challenges faced by the nation
Hands-on, Experimentation
Novel applications of IT
Development of new tools
Extending IT applications to new domains
IT application for enabling the poor
IT applications in Infrastructure & Governance

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