Talk:Information and communications technology

Notes

This article started life in 2003 under the name "Information communication technology", and the content was transfered to "Information and communication technologies" on 25 March 2009. Various pages such as "Information and Communication Technology" were redirects to "Information technology", but since 2008 or 2009 they have redirected to this article.

ICT : C stands for communication : singular or plural

This section has been copied from Talk:Information technology.

What does letter "C" in ICT stand for ? Communication (singular) or communications (plural). For instance, it's singular in United Nations site but plural in the United Nations Development Program. Which form is more accurate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.95.94.6 (talk) 11:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

probably singular is more correct. -- bohan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.6.103.241 (talk) 17:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

BULL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.48.67.11 (talk) 10:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

The History of Information Technology —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.250.32.13 (talk) 12:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I am actually more concerned that ICT appears to be subsumed by IT. In fact each are fundamentally distinct and should be treated seperately.

In the global work that we did in this regard on DOT Force (The Digital Opportunity Task Force established by the G8 in Okinawa 2001) meant that we agreed that ICT stood for Information Communications Technologies, and therefore the acronym ICT is plural. As a result, the misleading and incorrect acronym ICTs should never be used. A common error which should be wiped out by education.

Furthermore, ICT actually requires a separate reference page in Wikipedia. Subjects related to ICT include ICT for development etc.

I would be happy to discuss this further. == Atenyi 21:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I think that ICT (Information Communications Technologies) should not redirect to IT (Information Technology) page. This is incorrect. it should redirect to [1], perhaps with a header which disambiguates. ICT has a somewhat different meaning in it's most common usage.. I have been reading about what we call "Learning Technologies" in the US - In the UK, and possibly elsewhere in europe, ICT apparently refers to: The use of computer technologies in the classroom, the study of how to effectively search for and find information (research skills), and studies of how to best integrate Computer-based resources into education. Take a look at [2] [3] [4] [5] and [6] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.182.34.36 (talk) 17:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Good or bad

communications technolgy a good thing or a bad thing this is still not certain...... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.244.185 (talk) 21:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Wrong place for these items

The following are humanistic studies, they have nothing to do with technology.

• Advertising
• Journalism
• Mass media
• Instructional design
• Technical communication

Daniel What do you think? --Cantalamessa (talk) 21:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

The Internet

"One often wonders.."?? Those are not only weasel words, they don't even pretend to cite any authority. Who wonders? This is original research citing, uh.. the one, or something. What? --166.70.188.26 (talk) 16:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

And I just can't imagine (as it goes on) how, like, farmers, or old tyme people, n' stuff, I mean how did they survive without the internets to, uh, help their farming? N' stuff? Okay, I'm being ruthless, but that is just really a very ridiculous utterance.--166.70.188.26 (talk) 16:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I totally agree with both of you, but those sentences were not added by me, they are there just because of my politeness. Please feel free to modify themHallenrm (talk) 17:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

hai..

what are 5 types of communication technologies —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.54.211.205 (talk) 07:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Article title "Information communication technology" should be changed!

IMO the article title should be changed to:

Information and Communication Technologies

Can anybody changed it? (I don't know how to do it.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otto Knell (talk • contribs) 18:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest "Information and Communication Technology" following the British Computer Society Glossary of ICT and Computing Terms, or "Information and Communications Technology" following the Office of Government Commerce website. And if you see a "move" tab at the top of the article when you are logged in, you can use that to rename the article. JonH (talk) 15:18, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Support for both names. I just wonder the current (and gramatically wrong?) name without the "and" remains here for so long.--Kozuch (talk) 10:33, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Communication Technology: The Alphabet? Moveable Type?

"Communication Technology" -- which encompasses MUCH more than just electronic technology -- forwards me to this article. It occurs to me, however, that even this article might / should mention that there are very early technologies (in the human timeline) that communicated information well before, say, the telegraph, radio, television, computer, Internet, etc.
What about the alphabet? What about arabic numerals? What about moveable type? Would this sort of information be suitable for this article, or does a new (Information Communication Technology) article need to be started? Begeun (talk) 05:15, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

the "Future"

I think this section should be deleted from the page. Even if the use of mobile phones / interactive TV/radio should become general instead of the use of PC's, it wouldn't affect the meaning of ICT. Advanced mobile phones and other intelligent devices also contain processors (information technology) and telecommunication capabilities. ICT is not connected to the use of PC's.

Besides, I live in a developing country, and PC's are becoming very widespread. Moreover, there is no such thing as "text to voice" technology, its official name is "text-to-speech". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgeza7 (talk • contribs) 21:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

quality

I believe this has to be one of the worst articles ever written. For the love of god, I do hope that whoever wrote this is not native in English for if they are I truly fear for the future of English-speaking countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.176.102.39 (talk) 03:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Splitting and merging

I am against splitting to Telecommunications and Information technology. Parts from these articles could be in contrary injected into this article.--Kozuch (talk) 09:18, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

[This comment has been copied from Talk:Information technology.] ICT is communication between 2 or more computers, IT is seperate as it can be generalised as the entire industry of Information Tecnology or it can refer to the fact that the Information on the computers is not transmitted between computers. ICT is also the preffered term for teaching computer Technology at school, Collage Or even at university. I hope this may help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonathan Bate 113.199.169.167 (talk) 10:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

This article is quite poor, and it is worse than some of the earlier versions. For a start, it does not say what ICT is. Many people use ICT as an acronym for "Information and Communication Technology" (or minor variations of the phrase), so readers deserve to be told what these people are referring to. I think there should also be an explanation of when the phrase was first used, why it was used (which I guess should mention the "convergence of computing and communications"), and the fact that some people use the phrase "Information Technology" to include telecommunications. For example, the BCS Glossary of Computing and ICT, Twelfth Edition says on page 3 that:

"Information Technology (IT) is the application of technology to information processing. The current interest centres on computing, telecommunications and digital electronics. In the UK schools sector, the preferred term is ICT (Information and Communication Technology)."

If we accept this view, then logically this page should be a redirect to Information technology and the term ICT should be explained there. But even if this is a separate article, it does not need long descriptions of the individual kinds of technology, as it can link to other articles which describe them. JonH (talk) 20:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

So, what exactly is ICT?

The article does not describe ICT at all. The statement in the definition: "By this definition, you could almost say ICT is technology's version of economic growth" is nonsensical. How can a technology be growth? It can cause growth, but it is not growth. So, what is it? Luciano Q. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.223.16 (talk) 03:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I agree that sentence (added by an IP editor with no other edits) is obtuse or meaningless so I've removed it. Qwfp (talk) 15:09, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

English understood by 10% of world pop, 80% of Internet content?!

"For example the English language, which is understood by only 10% of the worlds population, accounts for approximately 80% of internet content."

While there is a source attached to this claim, it's most definately incorrect, or at least incorrectly worded. Does anyone have an exact citing from the source? And is there an alternate source to the claim of 80% of the content? English is most certainly understood by far more than 10%, in fact, approx. 17% seems to have it as the first or secondary language: List of countries by English-speaking population —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexander L (talk • contribs) 19:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

No Tasmania?

The island of Tasmania isn't visible on the map, I'd fix it if I knew how :) thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cliko (talk • contribs) 09:33, 15 February 2011 (UTC)