ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies and focuses on telecommunications like the internet, cell networks, and satellites. Modern ICT allows users worldwide to communicate in real-time through tools like instant messaging, video chat, online games, and social media. ICT has impacted society in many ways by changing jobs, education, crime fighting, retail, health, banking, and communication.

2. ICT is short for "Information and Communication
Technologies." It is similar to IT (Information
Technology), but focuses more
on telecommunications mediums, such as the Internet,
cell phone networks, and satellite technology. Modern
forms of ICT have made it possible for users across the
world to communicate with each other in real-time on a
regular basis. Examples include instant messaging,
video-conferencing, online multiplayer gaming,
and social networking websites.
WHAT IS ICT ?

5. Impact of ICT on Society:
Jobs
Education
Crime and policing
Retailing
Health
Money and banking
Communication
Business

6. More jobs:
Computer
manufacturers, delivery
drivers, call centre
employees, etc.
Skills:
Constant retraining
needed
More flexibility:
No longer jobs for
life
Working patterns:
More flexible
employment/working,
more part time
working
Telecommuting:
Working from
home
Jobs
New jobs:
Programmers, web
designers, ICT
teachers, etc.
Fewer jobs:
Filing clerks, shop
workers, postal
workers;
manual/repetitive jobs
replaced

7. Education
Teaching:
Interactive
whiteboards,
internet,
projectors
Records:
Details of all pupils
held on file,
reduces
administration
Reports:
Produced
electronically, e.g.
mail merge
Registration:
OMR registers,
scanned to update
central database,
produce absence
lists
Computer Aided
Learning:
On-screen
learning materials,
computer aided
assessment
Timetables:
Generated by
computer
Letters:
Mail merge not
typed on a
typewriter

8. Crime
and
Policing
Credit card:
Cloning – theft of
card details
Electronic fraud:
Stealing money
electronically
Hacking:
Unauthorised
access into
computers –
possibly to steal
money or data
Software Piracy:
Stealing software,
not paying for
licences
Viruses:
Programs designed
to corrupt a
computer system
Other:
Automatic number
plate recognition,
communication
systems
Police National
Computer:
Databases –
criminals, vehicles,
fingerprints, DNA,
stolen property,
HOLMES
National High
Tech Crime Unit:
NHTCU –
investigate
hacking, electronic
fraud, etc.

9. Retailing
Barcodes:
Unique identification
of all items, check
digit, used to search
the stock control
system
Loyalty Cards:
Identify customers
details, track
spending habits, offer
discounts, collected
data used for data
mining and targetting
customers
Internet Shopping:
Credit card payment,
buy from anywhere,
anytime. Issues –
p&p, returns,
security, trust, etc.
Stock Control:
Details of stock
quantities, prices,
restock limits
EFTPOS:
Credit/Debit card
details sent for
authorisation
EPOS:
Electronic Point Of
Sale – read barcode,
communicate with
stock control system,
total price, print
receipt, calculate
change

10. Health
Medical Training:
Simulation software, on-
line data sources
Pharmacy records:
Contra-indications, stock
Patient Records:
Held electronically, rather
than paper files
Hospital
Administration:
Patient attendance, print
labels, allocate beds, order
food, make appointments,
send letters, staff rotas
NHS Direct:
Web site for information on
health care, treatments,
conditions, etc.
NHSnet:
Project to connect all GP
surgeries, networked to
hospitals
Monitoring/Diagnosis:
Heart rate, blood pressure,
etc.
Expert systems, CAT scans

11. Business
Internet:
Drastically changed
the businesses
operate
Computer Aided
Manufacture
(CAM):
Control of the
manufacture process
by computer
Robots:
Used on production
lines –
repetitive/hazardous
jobs, reduces human
error, increases
efficiency
Teleworking:
Fewer desks needed
– hot desking,
workers control the
times they work, etc.
Computer Aided
Design (CAD):
3D designs, scale
drawings, interface
with manufacturing
machines
Other:
Paperless office,
teleconferencing

12. Money
and
Banking
Smart Cards:
Chip and Pin – data held
on a small silicon chip
rather than magnetic
stripe, customer enters
a pin rather than signs
receipt
Automated
Payments:
Bankers Automated
Clearing House (BACS) –
Credits, e.g. salary
payments, etc.; Debits,
e.g. direct debits, loan
payments, etc.
Cash Machines:
Automated Teller
Machine (ATM) – “hole
in the wall” access to
bank accounts
Credit/Debit Cards:
Magnetic stripe holds
the card details which
are read when swiped
EFT:
Credit/Debit card details
sent for authorisation,
from retailers or ATMs
Cheque Processing:
Cheques are scanned,
account numbers read
(MICR) to identify the
account
Home Banking:
Customers use the
internet or telephone to
administer their account

13. Communication
Networks:
LANs or WANs
Connection
Methods:
Cable,
radio/microwaves,
infra-red, satellite,
etc.
Internet:
Largest WAN,
international network
of computers
connected by
communication lines
WWW:
World Wide Web –
collection of pages
with links to other
pages (hyperlinks)
E-mail:
Message sent from 1
person to another
using computers
connected to a
network
Tele/Video
Conferencing:
people in different
locations
communicating as if
they were in the
same location
Fax:
Sending an image of
a document
electronically
Mobile
telephones:
Can send voice,
image, text, data
(from a linked
computer)

14. MADE BY :
Rimsha Iqbal
Naima Ashraf