TRends in ICT

• Convergence


  The synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task
• Convergence


  • Using your smartphone besides your personal computer to create word documents
• Social Media


  A website, application, or online channel that enables web users to create, co-create, discuss, modify, and exchange user generated content
• Types of Social Media

  • Social networks
  • Bookmarking sites
  • Social news
  • Media sharing
  • Microblogging
  • Blogs and Forums
• Social networks


  Sites that allows you to connect with other people with the same interests or background. Users can set up a profile, add people, share content, etc.
• Bookmarking sites


  Sites that allow you to store and manage links to various website and resources. Most of these sites allows you to create tags and easily share them.
• Social news


  Sites that allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources. The users can also comment on the post and comments may also be rank.
• Media sharing


  Sites that allow you to upload and share media content like images, music and video.
• Microblogging


  Sites that focus on short updates from the user. Those that subscribed to the user will be able to receive these updates.
• Blogs and Forums


  Websites that allow user to post their content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic.
• Mobile Technologies


  The popularity of mobile phones and tablet has rise because of its ability to do works that originally found on personal computers.
• Mobile Operating Systems

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Blackberry OS
  • Windows Phone OS
  • Symbian
  • Web OS
  • Windows Mobile
• iOS


  Used in Apple devices such as iPhone and iPad
• Android


  An open source OS developed by Google. Being open source means mobile phone companies use this OS for free.
• Blackberry OS


  Used in Blackberry devices.
• Windows Phone OS


  A closed source and proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft.
• Symbian


  The original smartphone OS; used by Nokia devices.
• Web OS


  Originally used in smartphones; now used in smart TVs.
• Windows Mobile


  Developed by Microsoft for smartphones and pocket PCs.
• Assistive Media


  A non-profit service designed to help people who have visual and reading impairments.
• People still demanding innovations continue
• Semantic Web


  A component of Web 3.0, coined by the developer of WWW, Tim Berners-Lee. The aim of web 3.0 is to have a server that can understand users preferences.
• Web 2.0


  The topmost result is based on the preference of several user who already search the same. Search engine then labels it the most common answers to search query.
• Web 3.0


  Will give you the result based on your own previous choices. Web 3.0 will trace up your previous shopping experience and it will search for similar shopping place, good rating, and budget that fit your preference in the past.
• Web 3.0 is yet to be fully realized because of several problems.
• Several problems of Web 3.0

  • Compatibility
  • Security
  • Vastness
  • Vagueness
  • Logic
• Compatibility


  HTML files and current browsers cannot support web 3.0.
• Security


  Users security is questionable since machine will save individual preferences.
• Vastness


  www is already contains billions of web pages.
• Vagueness


  Certain word are imprecise. The word "beautiful" and "pretty" would depend on the user.
• Logic


  Since machine use logic, there are certain limitations for a computer to be able to predict what the user is referring to at a given time.