This category of information professional concerned with the research, analysis, packaging and distribution of information. The

information consultant also evaluates information systems and

services

this is the professional who is concerned with the collection,

storage, processing and dissemination of recorded knowledge in a

library.

This is the professional who is responsible for supervising the

records that are kept in the archives by ensuring that they are

properly stored and preserved for future use.

This professional is responsible for the management and preservation of active records such as files,

correspondence, procedures, letters, reports, rules and regulations that emanate from an

organization.

This professional is responsible for planning, co-ordinating and supervising the human and material

resources in an information system.

This professional usually searches for information on behalf of others for a fee, thus an information

broker is an intermediary. This professional is concerned with the research, analysis, packaging and

distribution of information.

This is the professional who is concerned with identifying, creating, representing and distributing

knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning across the organizations.

Is a professional who is primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage,

retrieval and dissemination of information. He/she studies the application and usage of knowledge in

organizations along with the interaction between people, organizations and any existing information

systems, with the aim of creating, replacing or improving information systems. He/she also conducts

research work into areas such as how information is generated, stored and used. A great deal of

his/her work is computer-based.

This is the professional who is concerned with selecting appropriate technology to support decision making in an organization

This is the professional who is responsible for planning, co-ordinating and supervising the human and material resources in an information system.

Is a professional who is responsible for the collection, writing and packaging of information for communications and media houses.

This professional provides added value to recorded information already generated by improving the content and style and also ensuring that written or electronic documents conform to acceptable standards.

specialists who design, install, troubleshoot and optimize computer networks.

Specialist in networking and telecommunications technologies who design, install, configure, optimize and support LAN’s and WAN’s, including connections to the Internet and other external networks.

Specialist in database languages and technology who build, modify, and test database structures and programs that use and maintain them.

Specialist in database technologies used to design and coordinate changes to corporate databases. (Whitten, et al., 2004).

Write programs that are used to process information.

Specialist who code and maintain web servers.

Specialist who designs complex websites for organizations including public websites for the Internet, internal websites (intranets) for organizations,, and private business-to-business websites (extranets)

specialists who integrate software packages with H/W, networks and S/W packages.

Specialists who develop, test, and implement operating systems-level software, utilities, and services. (Whitten, et al., 2004).

Personnel whose main job involves entering data into computers.

General IT professionals who performs several roles including but not limited to procurement, designing, installing, training on IT related issues.

Manage all of a company’s information systems and resources. They also manage the staff in the information systems/technology units of organizations (Curtin, et al., 1998) .

Relatively new in today’s IT worker mix, specialists in graphics technology and methods used to design and construct compelling and easy-to-use interfaces to systems, including interfaces for PCs, the Web , hand held devices and smart phones.

Specialists in the technology and methods used to ensure data and network security (privacy).

Technical specialist who translates systems users’ business requirements and constraints into technical solutions. The SD designs the databases, networks and software that meets the system users’ requirements.

A specialists who studies the problems and needs of an organization to determine how people, processes and IT can best accomplish improvements for business. (Whitten, et al., 2004).

Vision – computer vision syndrome (CVS) as a result of radiation from display screens; itching eyes, eye fatigue, burning eyes, double vision, etc

Cancer from electromagnetic radiations from electronic devices e.g. ear cancer from mobile phones, etc.,

Ear problems : damaged ear drum, deaf, from loud music/sound from output devices, etc.,

Stress (techno stress) - headaches, stiff neck, etc

Posture : Bad body posture

Injury – repetitive stress injury (RSI) eg. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) swollen tissues associated with mild – severe pain in the wrist, arm or hand.

Miscarriage and skin rashes from electromagnetic emission

Environmental hazards associated with radioactive/electronic waste and it attendant problems of waste management & radioactive emission, ozone-layer depletion, epidemic, etc.,

ErgonomicsIs the study of factors affecting the performance of people in their working environment such as the effect of heat, light, noise, equipment and other intrusions on workers job performance

Right-sizing : making technology much smaller and compact, powerful, less expensive

Integration – people-IT systems working together to offer best services to consumers

Incorporating the senses – smell, taste, hearing, etc

Computing power doubles every month

Rapidly declining data storage costs

Data analysis advances (data warehousing, data mining)

Networking advances and the Internet

Copyright/piracy

Data protection/ownership

Info destruction

“Free” of “Fee” information

Digital divide

Unemployment

Information espionage

Information Espionage