Unit 1 ICT

• According to Blurton 1999, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is defined as “diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage. ICT is the study of computers as tools for data processing. It teaches students the fundamentals of operating computer systems in an internet-based environment.
• The Philippines has been dubbed the “ICT Hub of Asia” due to the rapid growth of ICT-related jobs, one of which is Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) or call centers.
• The Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) is in charge of developing, planning, and promoting the country's information and communications technology (ICT) agenda in support of national development.
• WORLD WIDE WEB An information 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 document to another.
• W3 is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet and invented by Tim-Berners Lee.
• Web 1.0 refers to the first stage in the World Wide Web, which was entirely made up of the Web pages connected by hyperlinks.
• Static Web Page is known as a flat page or stationary in the sense that the page is ‘’as is’’ and cannot be manipulated by the user. The content is also the same for all users that is referred to as Web 1.0.
• Web 2.0 is the evolution of Web 1.0 by adding dynamic web pages—the user can see a website differently than others. This allows users to interact with the page.
• Folksonomy: It allows users to categorize and classify/arrange information using freely chosen keywords (tagging)
• Rich User Experience: Content is dynamic and is responsive to user’s input
• User Participation: The owner of the website is not the only one who is able to put content
• Long Tail: Services that are offered on demand rather than on a one-time purchase
• Software As a Services: Users will subscribe to a software only when needed rather than purchasing them
• Mass Participation: Diverse information sharing through universal web access
• According to the W3C, “The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.”
• Compatibility -Web 3.0 is not compatible with HTML files and current web browsers.
• Security -The user’s security is in question since the machine is saving his or her preferences.
• Vastness -The World Wide Web already contains billions of web pages.
• Vagueness -The words “old” and “small” would depend on the user in Web 3.0.
• Logic -Machines use logic, which limits a computer’s ability to predict what the user is referring to at a given time.