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What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by Nobody: 7:26am On Nov 03, 2012
The two are mistaken to have the same meaning. What's your opinion?
Re: What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by Emmyk(m): 8:08am On Nov 03, 2012
I only know about ICT is Journalism feed as THE TOTALITY OF THE GADGETS USED FOR NEWS GATHERING, NEWS EDITING,AND NEWS PUBLISHING AND DISSEMINATION..
Re: What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by Nobody: 1:16pm On Nov 03, 2012
Thank you for your contribution.
Re: What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by Justmestunner(m): 9:32am On Jul 15, 2013
Information technology (IT) is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications.[1] The term in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review, in which authors Leavitt and Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology(IT).

Information and communications technology or information and communication technology,[1] usually called ICT, is 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. 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. 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.[2] The expression was first used in 1997[3] in a report by Dennis Stevenson to the UK government[4] 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.[5][6]
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. There are large economic incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone network) to merge the audio-visual, building management and telephone network with the computer network system using a single unified system of cabling, signal distribution and management. See VOIP and Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM). This in turn has spurred the growth of organizations with the term ICT in their names to indicate their specialization in the process of merging the different network systems.
Re: What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by Kennycss: 4:56pm On Sep 29, 2014
An quick and sharp ans will b appreciated 2013 2014 bloody fresh men need an ans
Re: What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by fattbabakay(m): 12:39am On Oct 23, 2014
Kennycss:
An quick and sharp ans will b appreciated 2013 2014 bloody fresh men need an ans
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Re: What Is The Difference Between IT And ICT? by femi4: 11:47am On May 21, 2020
ICT (Information Communications Technology) can be seen as an integration of IT with mediation broadcasting technologies, audio/ video processing and transmission and telephony. Therefore, ICT can be seen as an extended acronym for IT.
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