ICT

• Philippines is known as the "ICT Hub of Asia"
• Huge growth of ICT related jobs in the Philippines, including call center or BPO centers
• 106.8 cellphones per 100 Filipinos in 2012
• ICT industry shares 19.3% of the total employment population in the Philippines
• Makati City, Philippines is ranked 1 as the "Selfiest Cities around the world", and Cebu City is ranked 9
• 43.5% of Filipinos accessed the Internet in 2016
• Philippines is ranked 74th out of 77 countries in terms of 4G speed, with a download speed of 8.24 Mbps (CNN Phils, Nov. 2017)
• Web 1.0:

  • Invented around the time of the World Wide Web
  • Static / Flat Page / Stationary Page
  • Content cannot be manipulated by the user and is the same for all users
• Web 2.0 features:

  • Folksonomy allows users to categorize information using freely chosen keywords
  • Rich User Experience with dynamic content responsive to user input
  • Long Tail services offered on demand
  • User Participation allows users to contribute content through comments, reviews, and evaluations
  • Software as a Service (SaaS) allows users to subscribe to software only when needed
  • Mass Participation enables diverse information sharing through universal web access
• Web 3.0 aims to have machines understand user preferences to deliver web content specifically targeting the user
• Problems with Web 3.0:

  • Compatibility issues with HTML files and current web browsers
  • Security concerns with user preferences stored by machines
  • Vastness of the World Wide Web with billions of web pages
  • Vagueness of certain words depending on the user
  • Logic limitations for computers to predict user references
• Trends in ICT:

  1. Convergence - Technological advancements working towards a common goal or task
• Trends in ICT:

  2. Social Media types:

  • Social Networks
  • Bookmarking Sites
  • Social News
  • Media Sharing
  • Microblogging
  • Blogs and Forums
• Trends in ICT:

  3. Mobile Technologies popularity with smartphones and tablets, capable of tasks originally found in personal computers
• Examples of Mobile Operating Systems:

  • iOS for Apple devices like iPhone and iPad
  • Android, an open-source OS by Google
  • Blackberry OS for Blackberry devices
  • Windows Phone OS by Microsoft
  • Symbian used by Nokia devices
  • WebOS originally for smartphones, now for smartTVs
• Trends in ICT:

  4. Assistive Media - nonprofit service to aid people with visual and reading impairments
• ICT (Information and Communication Technology)

  Diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage
• ICT


  Study of computers as tools for data processing
• ICT


  Teaches students the fundamentals of operating computer systems in an internet-based environment
• ICT-related jobs in the Philippines

  • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) or call centers
• The Philippines has been dubbed the “ICT Hub of Asia” due to the rapid growth of ICT-related jobs
• The Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) in the Philippines is in charge of developing, planning, and promoting the country’s ICT agenda in support of national development
• World Wide Web


  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


  First stage in the World Wide Web, entirely made up of Web pages connected by hyperlinks
• Web 1.0


  Static Web Page is known as flat page or stationary page in the sense that the page is “as is” and cannot be manipulated by the user
• Web 1.0


  Content is the same for all users
• Web 2.0


  Evolution of Web 1.0 by adding dynamic web pages - the user is able to see a website differently than others
• Web 2.0


  • Social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications
• Web 2.0


  • Allows users to interact with the page, comment, create a user account, use web browsers for user interface, application software, and file storage
• Web 2.0


  • Features include Folksonomy, Rich User Experience, User Participation, Long Tail, Software As a Service, Mass Participation
• Folksonomy


  Allows users to categorize and classify/arrange information using freely chosen keywords (tagging)
• Rich User Experience


  Content is dynamic and responsive to user’s input
• User Participation


  Others can place content by means of comments, reviews, and evaluation
• Long Tail


  Services offered on demand rather than on a one-time purchase
• Software As a Service

  Users subscribe to software only when needed rather than purchasing them
• Mass Participation


  Diverse information sharing through universal web access
• Web 3.0


  The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries
• Web 3.0


  Aim is to have machines understand the user’s preferences to deliver web content specifically targeting the user
• Problems of Web 3.0


  • Compatibility
  • Security