ACHIEVEMENTS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Is Branch Of Engineering That Deals With The Use Of Computers And Telecommunications To Retrieve And Store And Transmit Information.

WHAT is INFORMATION TECHNOLGY?

ACHIEVEMENTS

•Impacts In Life Of People

•Social Interaction

•Climate, Weather And Emergency Response

•People With Disabilities

•In Education

•In Agriculture

•In Healthcare

IMPACTS IN LIFE OF PEOPLE

• Access to information

Possibly the greatest effect of ICT onindividuals is the huge increase inaccess to information and services thathas accompanied the growth of theInternet.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT ON PEOPLE

• Job loss

One of the largest negative effects of ICT can be the loss ofa person’s job.

This has both economic consequences, loss of income, andsocial consequences, loss of status and self esteem.

• Reduced personal interaction

Being able to work from home is usually regarded as beinga positive effect of using ICT, but there can be negativeaspects as well. e.g. distance learning and on-line tutorials.

• Reduced physical activity

A third negative effect of ICT is that users may adopt amore sedentary lifestyle.

SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

• Social Media Platforms WHICH Allows People To Participate In A Wider, Even Worldwide, Society.

• Provide Spaces Where Individuals Can Participate In Expressions Of Civic Engagement.

• Researchers Say That “Social Networking Cannot Be Thrown Out As Leisure But As A Broader Conceptualization Of Development Research.”

NEGATIVES DUE TO ICT IN SOCIETY

• Probably The Largest Effect That ICT Use Has On SocietyIs Allowing Members Of Society To Have GreatlyIncreased Access To Information.

• This Can Have Numerous Negative Effects, Such As:Causing A Digital Divide Between Those Who Can AccessInformation And Those Who Cannot, Reducing Levels OfEducation And Understanding Due To The Vast AmountOf Incorrect And Misleading Information That IsAvailable Causing Moral And Ethical Problems Due ToThe Nature Of Some Of The Material Available.

CLIMATE AND WEATHER

• The Use Of ICT In Weather Forecasting Is Broad

• Offices Use Mass Media To Inform The Public On Weather Updates

• Monitoring Extreme Weather Events

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

• For Relief Operations, • Providing Early Warnings • Monitoring-detecting And Predicting,• Disaster Management-supporting Emergency

Response• Adaptation-supporting Environmental, Health And

Resource• In 2014 When Typhoon Haiyan Hit The Philippines, The

CDAC (Communicating With Disaster Affected Communities) Network Utilized Different Technologies To Coordinate And Communicate Efforts Between The Affected Communities And The Different Network's Volunteer Organizations

Calamities before it revolution

• Took many time for persons to know about a calamity happening or happened at a place far away.

• Due to above said point rescue operations took so much time to reach to the accident or calamity spot

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

• According To World Health Organization (WHO), 15% Of The World's Total Population Have Disabilities

Goals OF ICT To Help Pwds Give Disabled People A Powerful Tool In Their Battle To

Gain Employment Increase Disabled People’s Skills, Confidence, And Self-

esteem Integrate Disabled People Socially And Economically Into

Their Communities; Reduce Physical Or Functional Barriers And Enlarge Scope

Of Activities Available To Disabled Persons Develop A Web Content That Can Be Accessed By Persons

With Disabilities Especially The Visually Impaired And Hearing Impaired

PROGRAMS OF ICT TO HELP PwDS

• Estonian E-learning Development Centre And Primus- One Activity Of Primus Is To Develop And Run A Support System For Students With Special Needs. This Is Done By: Developing Different Support Services

• European Unified Approach For Assisted Lifelong Learning (EU4ALL)- The Aim Of This Initiative Is To Create An Accessible And Adapted Course Addressed To Students With Different Disabilities – Cognitive, Physical And Sensory.

• Discapnet- Website Dealing With Disability Issues.

PROGRAMS OF ICT TO HELP PwDs(cont)

• Plan Ceibal- Aims To Promote Digital Inclusion In Order To Reduce The Digital Gap With Other Countries, As Well As Among The Citizens Of Uruguay.

• Leren En Werken Met Autisme (Learning And Working With Autism)- Is A Dvd With Several Tools Aimed At Helping Students With Autism Or Autistic Spectrum Disorders In Their Transition From Education To Work, Or Workplace Training Settings

PROGRAMS OF ICT TO HELP PwDS(CONT)

• Everyday Technologies For Children With Special Needs (Evtech)- Is A Collaborative Initiative Aiming To Increase The Possibilities Of Children With Special Needs To Make Choices And Influence Their Environments In Everyday Life By Developing IndividualisedTechnical Environments And Tools For Children And Their Families.

EDUCATION

• Facilitate The Acquisition And Absorption Of Knowledge

• Offering Developing Countries Unprecedented Opportunities To Enhance Educational Systems

• Improve Policy Formulation And Execution, And Widen The Range Of Opportunities For Business And The Poor

ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION

• By Increasing Learner Motivation And Engagement

• Distance Learning, Where Students Can Access Teaching Materials From All Over The World

• The Ability To Perform ‘Impossible’ Experiments’ By Using Simulations

ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION(cont)

• By Enhancing Teacher Training Which Will Eventually Improve Communication And Exchange Of Information That Will Strengthen And Create Economic And Social Development.

• The Possibility For Students To Have Individual Learning Programs Within A Topic, Rather Than Everybody Having To Do The Same Thing At The Same Time At The Same Pace. More Able Students Can Be Given More Challenging Work, Less Able Students Can Access Remedial Lessons.

EXAMPLES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Chile, The Chilean Experience Costa Rica, The Ministry Of Education And

Fundación Omar Dengo’s Partnership India (Kerala), It@schoolBangladesh, Brac's Computer Aided Learning

(CAL) Initiative, Jordan Education Initiative Macedonia's Primary Education Project (PEP)

Malaysia, Smart School Namibia’s Icts In Education Initiative, Tech/Na! Russia E-learning Support Project

• The IT @ School Project, is an Information Technology project .

• under the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala in India.

• Launched in 2001, the Project has remodeled conventional teaching methodologies in classrooms through the use of IT.

• The project is being implemented in over 12,000 schools in the State of Kerala, and also in schools inMahé, Lakshadweep and the Middle East which follow the State syllabus.

• An estimated 5 million students and 200,000 teachers are now part of this project.

NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT ON EDUCATION

• There are large costs involved and poorerstudents / educational establishments can endup being disadvantaged

• Students, and sometimes teachers, can get hooked on the technology aspect, rather than the subject content. Just because a topic can be taught via ICT, does not mean that it is taught most effectively via ICT

AGRICULTURE

• Increasing Production Efficiency – Due To Several Environmental Threats Such As Climate Change, Drought, Poor Soil, Erosion And Pests, The Livelihood Of Farmers Are Unstable. Thus, The Flow Of Information Regarding New Techniques In Production Would Open Up New Opportunities To Farmers By Documenting And Sharing Their Experiences.

• Access To Price Information

• Access To Agriculture Information

• Access To National And International Markets

AGRICULTURE(CONT)

• Creating A Conducive Policy Environment –Through The Flow Of Information From The Farmers To Policy Makers, A Favorable Policy On Development And Sustainable Growth Of The Agriculture Sector Will Be Achieved.

• Examples A Rice Germination Electronic Cooker A Robotic Tubing-grafting System For Fruit-

bearing Vegetable Seedlings An Air Bubble Machine And Multi-functional,

Ultrasonic Machine For Fruit Cleaning

AGRICULTURE BEFORE IT REVOLUTION

• Farmers did not knew how much manure they have to use it on their fields.

• There was no HY seeds.

• The farmers where easily cheated by middlemen with market price.

• Farmers were ignorant about land use.

Disadvantages

• Natural taste of object cannot be obtained.

• Due to use of synthetic chemicals used on plants ,people get health problems like CANCER

HEALTHCARE

• Health Workers Making Better Treatment Decisions;• Hospitals Providing Higher Quality And Safer Care;• People Making Informed Choices About Their Own

Health;• Governments Becoming More Responsive To Health

Needs;• National And Local Information Systems Supporting

The Development Of Effective, Efficient, And Equitable Health Systems;

• Policymakers And The Public Becoming More Aware Of Health Risks; And

• People Having Better Access To The Information And Knowledge They Need For Better Health.

SHOPPING AND BUSSINESS

Due To Globalization Due To IT Revolution

→ Tourists Can Book Tickets ,Hotels, Resorts

→ Cine Viewers Can Book Tickets ,Know Reviews Even Sitting At Home

→ Shopaholics Can Buy Things Cheaply, Comparing, From A Wide Variety Of Goods

→ Estate Owners Can Advertise Them On Various Sites

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Disadvantages of e-commerce

• Local Companies Which Employ Many Goes To Loss Because Same Things Sold By Them Is Very Much Cheap In E-market.

• Government Does Not Get Taxes For This Sale.

• Goods Have To Be Waited By Customer As It Has To Be Loaded From Product Of Manufacture.

• Customers Don’t See The Product Before They Buy.

• As Seller Buyer Does Not See Each Other And No Official Reciept There May Be Underworld Relations Or Money May Be Black.

Positives Negatives

In life of people

• Access to information• Growth of internet to know anything(world at

fingertips)

• Job loss• Reduced personal

interaction• Reduced Physical activity

In society

• Social networking sites • Greatly increased accessto information

Positves Negatives

Education

• Facilitate The Acquisition And Absorption Of Knowledge

• Offering Developing Countries Unprecedented Opportunities To Enhance Educational Systems

• Distance education• Impossible experiments through

virtual reality

• Large costs• May get hooked on technological

aspect rather than the subject content

Agriculture

• Increased production efficiency• Access to price information• Access to agriculture information• Access to markets

• Natural taste of object cannot be obtained

• Synthetic chemicals used may cause diseases

Reference

• Wikipedia-free encyclopedia-Information and communication technologies for development

• Google images

• Youtube