LESSON 1

Introduction to
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✖ As the popular saying goes “ Love makes the world

go round”
✖ But before you start looking for someone to fall in
love with, you could argue how the internet has
made the world go round for decades.
✖ In this lesson, we will understand how Information
and Communication Technologies have improve our
lives in such a short period of time.
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What is information, communication and technology

ICT deals with the use of different

communication technologies such as mobile
phones, telephone, internet, etc, to locate,
save, send and edit information.

Example: when we make a voice call or video

call, we use internet.
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Information Communication and technology in the philippines

✖ Philippines as “ICT Hub of Asia”

✖ Huge growth of ICT related jobs around the
country, one of which is call center or BPO (
Business Process Outsourcing) centers.
✖ According to 2013 edition of Measuring the
Information Society by the International
Telecommunication Union, there are 106.8
cellphones per 100 Filipinos in the year 2012.
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Information Communication and technology in the philippines

✖ In a data gathered by the Annual Survey of

Philippines Business and Industries in 2010,
the ICT industry shares 19.3% of the total
employment population.
✖ Time magazines declared Makati City,
Philippines Rank 1 as the “Selfiest Cities
around the world and rank 9 is the Cebu
City.
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World wide web

✖ When www was invented, most web pages were static.
Static (also known as flat page or stationary page) in
the same that the page “as is” and cannot be
manipulated by the user. This referred to as the Web
1.0.
✖ On the other hand, Web 2.0 allows the user to interact
with the page known as the dynamic page: instead of
just by reading a page, the user maybe able to
comment or create a user account.
✖ Dynamic page refers to the web pages tha are affected
by user input or preference.
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Key features of web 2.0.

 folksonomy
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✖ Allows user to categorize and

classify/arrange information using freely
chosen keywords (example is tagging).
Popular social networking sites such as
Twitter, Instagram or Facebook use tags
that starts with a pound sign (#) or hashtag.
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Rich user interface

✖ Content is dynamic and is responsive to

user’s input. An example would be a
website that shows local content. In the
case of social networking sits, when lgged
on, your account is used to modify what
you see in their website.
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User participation

✖ The owner of the website is not the

only one who is able to put content.
Others are able to place a content
on their own by means of
comments, reviews and evaluation
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Long tail

✖ Services are offered on demand rather than

one-time purchase. This is synonymous to
subscribing to a data plan that charges you
for the amount of time you spent on the
internet or a data plan that charges you for
the amount of bandwidth you used
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Web 3.0 and semantic web

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Semantic web

✖ Is a movement led by the World Wide Web

Consortium (W3C). The semantic web
provides a framework that allows data to be
shared and reause to deliver web content
specifically targeting the user.
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Compatibility security

HTML files and the user’s security

current web is also a question
browsers could not since the machine is
support Web 3.0 saving his or her
preferences
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vastness vagueness

Certain words are

The world wide web
imprecise. The
already contains
words “old” and
billions of web
“small” would
pages.
depend on the user.
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logic

✖ Since machines use logic, there are

certain limitations for a computer to
be able to predict what the user is
referring to at a given time.
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editable shapes.

This means that you can:

● Resize them
without losing
quality.
● Change fill color
and opacity.

Isn’t that nice? :)