INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF ICT

ICT is an acronym that stands for “Information Communication Technology”
In our daily lives we tend to ICT in one way or the other. People keep connected
through telephone networks, the internet and the World Wide Web as shown in fig1
above. ICT involves a wide range of electronic tools for creating, storing, displaying,
exchanging digital information and communication.
ICT is not limited to computers. People can use other ICT tools without having
computers. In other parts of the country where schools cannot access computers, other
equipment of ICT should be applied

DEFINITION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
ICT (information and communications technology) is the use of electronic
computers and computer software/applications to convert, store, protect, process,
transmit and retrieve digital information from anywhere at any time.
OR
ICT (information and communications technology) can also be defined as the
combination of computer and communication technologies to process data into
information.
OR
ICT (information and communications technology) maybe referred to the tools
which can be used to create, manipulate, store, disseminate and transmit information in
all forms including voice, text, graphics, and video.

ICT TOOLS/ ICTs
ICT Tools are devices/objects used in ICT for creating, storing, and manipulating,
exchanging and transmitting digital information.
As people need Hammers, Hoes, Pangas to process, produce and manufacture “food”,
ICT tools are also needed to capture data, process data, store and communicate
information. Therefore ICT tools are not one solid thing but rather a collection of several electronic tools.

Examples of ICT tools include;
 Radios
 Television (TV)
 Video
 DVD
 Telephone
 Digital cameras
 scanners
 Satellite systems
 Computers
e.g.
Laptops, etc.
desktops,
Figure 2: common ICT tools in our society