Trends in ICT

• Technological Convergence - the synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task
• Social Media - online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interactions, content-sharing, and collaboration
• Bookmarking sites uses a form of tagging
• Social News are internet websites that features user-posted stories
• Media Sharing enables users to store and share their multimedia files
• Microblogging - blogging and instant messages are posted and shared with an audience online
• Blogs and Forums displays postings by one or more individuals in chronological order
• Mobile Technologies

  1. iOS
  2. Android
  3. Blackberry OS
  4. Windows Phone OS
  5. Symbian
  6. Web OS
  7. Windows Mobile
• Assistive Media - a nonprofit organization and is the first internet-based audio reading service for people with visual disabilities
• Assistive Media was founded by David Erdody in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1996
• Web Search Engines - programs assigned to search the WWW based on keywords provided by the user
• Research Indexing Sites - web sites dedicated for research
• Examples of Research Indexing Sites

  • google scholar
  • xplore
  • ieee
  • researchgate
• Massive Open Online Course - websites dedicated to teach users
• Examples of MOOC

  • udemy
  • coursera
  • edx
• Employment Websites - websites used for job searching and recruitment
• E-commerce Web Sites - trade products and currencies
• Examples of E-commerce Websites

  • lazada
  • zalora
  • ebay
  • amazon
• Microsoft Excel - an electronic spreadsheet that can be used to automatically perform numerical calculations