Information and communicatio ns technology

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is an extensional term for Information Technology(IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audiovisual systems, that enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information

ICT
Education
Banking
Government
Science

Advantages of ICT in Education
Use of packages: word-processing, dtp, spreadsheets. • Special facilities for pupils with disabilities. • Teacher and pupil communications improve. • ICT provides links with other schools or with businesses. • Computers in schools provides wider access to ICT and encourages new ways of learning • Can repeat work again and again