Wayne Jet D.

Velasco

11-GALATIANS

a.) Search for a deep meaning of ICT.

The word ICT is a combination of two words information, communication & technology.
Information means knowledge and technology means the use of computer &
communication. The term ICT can be defined as “the integration of computing,
networking, and information processing technologies and their applications’’

b.) Provide information about the following.

1. Uses of ICT in Education

ICTs, especially computers and Internet technologies, enable new ways of teaching and
learning rather than simply allow teachers and students to do what they have done before in a
better way. ICT has an impact not only on what students should learn, but it also plays a
major role on how the students should learn.

2. Uses of ICT in Hospitals and Medicine

ICT can help improve patient safety through the direct access to the medical case
story, checking the treatments online, keeping track of the patients' progress and
anticipating possible medical errors. Since they provide a way to increase the
patient safety, their use is being promoted in many countries.

3. Uses of ICT in Bank and Finances

ICT is helping the banking sector improve its efficiency and effectiveness of
services offered to customers, and enhances business processes, managerial
decision making, and workgroup collaborations which strengthen their
competitive positions in rapidly changing and emerging economies.

4. Uses of ICT in Agriculture

ICT helps in growing demand for new approaches. It also helps in empowering
the rural people by providing better access to natural resources, improved
agricultural technologies, effective production strategies, markets, banking and
financial services etc. This article explores the role of ICT in agricultural sector.

5. Uses of ICT in Business

ICT systems allow your business to store, process, analyze and share vast amounts
of data. The information available from corporate data enables managers and
employees to make decisions quickly and accurately so that they can manage
operations effectively and respond rapidly to business opportunities or threats.