ICT

Information and communications technology or information and communication technology

·       ICT consists of all technical means used to handle information and aid communication, including computer and network hardware, communication middleware as well as necessary software.

·       Often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT) but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals).

·       Intelligent building management systems and audio-visual systems in modern information technology.

·       In other words, ICT consists of IT as well as telephony, broadcast media, all types of audio and video processing and transmission and network based control and monitoring functions.

·        The expression was first used in 1997 in a report by Dennis Stevenson to the UK government and promoted by the new National Curriculum documents for the UK in 2000.

·       ICT is often used in the context of "ICT roadmap" to indicate the path that an organization will take with their ICT needs.

·       The term ICT is now also used to refer to the merging (convergence) of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling or link system.