INTRODUCTION TO

INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGIES
Form a group with five members each. Take
turns answering the questions below. Answer
the following honestly.
1. How many times have you checked your
phone this morning?
2. How many status updates have you posted in
Facebook or Twitter today?
3. Did you use the internet for an hour after
you walk up this morning?
4. Do you follow a celebrity via his/her social
media account?
If you happen to be guilty as charged in
most of this questions , chances are, you
are a digital natives. And chances are,
from the moment you were born, you
were surrounded by technology, you are
surrounded by ICT.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

 Itdeals with the use of different

communication technologies such as
mobile phones, telephone, internet,
ect.to locate, save and edit
information.
ICT in the Philippines

 Philippines is dub as the “ICT Hub of Asia”

(BPO)
 Accordingto the 2013 edition of Measuring
the Information Society by the International
Telecommunication Union, there are 106.8
cellphones per 100 Filipinos in the year
2012.
ICT in the Philippines

 In a data gathered by the Annual Survey of

the Philippines Business and Industries,
NSO, in 2010, the ICT Industry shares 19.3%
of the total employment population here in
the Philippines.
ICT in the Philippines

 Toadd these statistics, Time Magazine’s

“The Selfiest Cities around the World” of
2013 places two cities from the Philippines
in the top 1 and top 10 spots. The study
was conducted using Instagram.
ICT in the Philippines

 Withthese numbers, there is no doubt that

the Philippines is one of the countries that
benefits most out of ICT.
ICT in the Philippines

 How do you feel about the statistics shared?

 Did you find it alarming?
 Whysome people choose to have two cellular
phones?
 Areyou also taking selfies every now and
then?
 INTERNET

 Isthe global system of inter connected

computer networks that use the
internet protocol suite to link billions
of devices worldwide.
 INTERNET

 Means of connecting a computer to

any other computer anywhere in the
world via dedicated routers and
servers.
 INTERNET

 Sometimes called simply “the Net”, is a

worldwide system of computer networks –
a network of networks in which users at
any one computer can get information
from any other computer.
 WORLD WIDE WEB

 Aninformation system on the Internet

that allows, documents to be
connected to other documents by
hypertext links, enabling the user to
search for information by moving from
one documents to another.
 WORLD WIDE WEB

 Isan information space where

documents and other web resources
are identified by URLs, interlinked by
hypertext links, and can be accesses
via the internet.
 Invented by Tim-Berners Lee
 WEB PAGES

Is a hypertext documents

connected to the World Wide Web
It is a document that is suitable for
the World Wide Web.
 WEBSITES

A location connected to the Internet

that maintains one or more pages on
the World Wide Web.
 It is a related collection of World Wide
Web(WWW) files that includes a
beginning file located a home page.
 WEB BROWSER

 It displays a web page on a monitor or

mobile devices.
 It is a software application for
retrieving, presenting, and traversing
information resources on the World
Wide Web.
 Assignment (By Group)

Conduct a short interview of the business owner

using the following guide:

Company/Establishment
Name:______________________
Address:____________________
Nature of Business:___________
Guide Questions:
1. What are the different ways for customers and/or supplies
to contact you?
2. How often do you use a phone or cellular phone for
business? Estimate only
3. Does your establishment have Internet Connection? If yes,
what is its purpose? If no, would you consider having it in
the future? Why or why not?
4. Does your business have a website? If yes, how does it
helps the company?
5. (If applicable) Would you consider giving free Wi-Fi access
in the future? If you already have it, does it help boost
sales?
Same Group

 Createor think any business you would like

to have and how you can use ICT to
improve it.
 Writeon a sheet of paper something about
your business including its nature and how
ICT can help its business become successful
Remember!

 ICT is one of the best ways to improve business

sales and it is important for you to know how to
use it for your advantage. One advantage is for
customers to share their thoughts with you online,
directly on your web page. That way, the
customers would feel that you are responsive and
very open in listening to their thoughts. But in
order to do that, you have to make your website
dynamics.
 WEB 2.0

 Is a term coined by Dancy DiNucci on January

1999.
 It is the evolution of Web 1.0 by adding dynamic
web pages – the user is able to see a website
differently than the others.
 It allows users to interact with page instead of
just reading a page, the user may be able to
comment or create a user account.
 WEB 2.0

 It also allows users to use web browsers instead of

just using their operating system.
 Browser can now be used for their user interface,
application software (or web applications), and
even for file storage.
 Example of Web 2.0 include social networking
sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted
services, and web applications.
 FEATURES OF WEB 2.0

1. FOLKSONOMY – allows users to categorize

and classify/arrange information using freely
chosen keywords (e.g., tagging). Popular
social networking sites such as Twitter,
Instagram, Facebook, etc.use tags that starts
with the pound sign (#). This is also referred
to as hashtag.
 FEATURES OF WEB 2.0

2. RICH USER EXPERIENCE – 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
sites, when logged on, your account is used
to modify what you see in their website.
 FEATURES OF WEB 2.0

3. 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
of their own by means of comments, reviews
and evaluation. Some websites allow readers
to comment on an article, participate in a
poll, or review a specific product. (e.g.,
Amason.com, online stores.)
 FEATURES OF WEB 2.0

4. LONG TAIL – services that are offered on

demand rather than on one time purchase. In
certain cases, time-based pricing is better
than file-sized pricing or vice-versa. This is
synonyms to subscribing to a data plan that
charges you for the amount of time you spent
in the internet, or a data plan that charges
you for the amount of bandwidth you used.
 FEATURES OF WEB 2.0

5. Software as a Service – users will

subscribe to a software only when needed
rather than purchasing them. This is a
cheaper option you do not always need to use
a software. Software as a service allows you
to “rent” a software or a minimal fee.
 FEATURES OF WEB 2.0

6. Mass Participation – diverse information

through universal web access. Since most
users can be use the Internet, Web 2.0’s
content is based on people from various
cultures.
 WEB 3.0 and the SEMANTIC WEB

SEMANTIC WEB – is a movement led by the World

Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C standard
encourages web developers to include semantic
content in their web pages.

Tim Berners Lee – inventor of World Wide Web. He

also noted that the semantic web is component of
Web 3.0
 WEB 3.0 and the SEMANTIC WEB

SEMANTIC WEB – according to the W3C, “It is

provides a common framework that allows data to
be shared and reused across application, enterprise,
and community boundaries.”
 WEB 3.0 and the SEMANTIC WEB

 The aim of Web 3.0 is to have machines (or

servers) understands the user’s preferences to be
able to deliver web content specifically targeting
the user.
 Web 3.0 is yet to be fully realize
because of several problems:
1. Compatibility – HTML files and current web browsers
could not support Web 3.0

2. Security – the user’s security is also in question since the

machine is saving his or her preferences.

3. Vastness – the world wide web already contains billions of

web pages.
 Web 3.0 is yet to be fully realize
because of several problems:
4. Vagueness – certain words are imprecise. The word “do”
and “small” would depend on the user.

5. Logic – since machines use logic, there are certain

limitations for a computer to be able to predict what the
user is referring to at given time.
 TRENDS in ICT

1. CONVERGENCE
- technological convergence is the synergy of
technological advancements to work on a similar
goal or task.

- is an evolution of technical developments that

merge into a new system bringing together different
types of application and media.
 TRENDS in ICT

2. SOCIAL MEDIA
- is a website application or online channel that
enables web users to create, co-create, discuss,
modify and exchange user-generated content.
- is a collection of internet-based communication
tools and computer-assisted channels dedicated to
allow users to interact, communicate, and share
information in a virtual community and network.
Most common social media sites

a. Facebook
- is a popular free social networking site with
more than a billion users around the globe that
allows its users to create profiles, upload photos
and videos, create and join groups, react to friends
posts, create events, send messages, keeping in
touch with close friends and relatives.
Most common social media sites

b. Twitter
- with more than 300 million users in 2016, this
social networking site allows users to microblog or
broadcast short messages called “tweets”.
Registered Twitter members can also read and
follow tweets of other users.
Most common social media sites

c. Instagram
- is another free social networking app that
enables the user to share mobile photo and video
either publicly or privately, and through other
networking sites such as Flickr, Tumbler, Facebook
and Twitter.
Most common social media sites

d. Snapchat
- is designed for the mobile networking
application. Snapchat is also designed for photo
sharing, chat and messaging services. Images and
videos shared in this app last only for a short time
and they are gone after.
 TRENDS IN ICT

3. MOBILE MEDIA
- the popularity of smartphones and tablets has
taken major rise over the years. Several of these
devices are capable of using high-speed internet.
Today, the latest mobile devices use 4G
Networking(LTE), which is currently the fastest
mobile network.
• Mobile devices use different
operating systems:
a. IOS – used in Apple devices such as the iPhone and
iPad.

b. Android – an open source operating system

developed by Google, being open source means
several mobile phone companies use this OS for
free.
• Mobile devices use different
operating systems:
c. Blackberry OS – used in Blackberry devices.
d. Windows phone OS – a closed source and
proprietary operating system developed by
Microsoft.
e. Symbian – the original smartphone OS; used by
Nokia devices.
• Mobile devices use different
operating systems:
f. WebOS – originally used for smartphones; now
used for smart TVs.
g. Windows mobile – developed by Microsoft for
smartphones and pocket PCs.
 TRENDS IN ICT

4. ASSISSTIVE MEDIA
- is a nonprofit service designed to help people
who have visual and reading impairment. A database
audio recordings is used to read to the user.
- was the first internet-based audio reading
service for persons with print reading barriers
thereby operating a unique avenue of accessibility
for many individuals with cognitive, physical, and
communication abilities.
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