In an entertainment:
To play Games
To watch moves
Chatting through E-mail
Listening from music
Reading
Management:
Files management
Office record keeping
Cost effectiveness:
Information and communication technology has helped to computerize the business process thus streamlining businesses to make them extremely cost effective money making machines. This in turn increases productivity which ultimately gives rise to profits that means better pay and less exhausting working conditions. Although the cost factor is still a challenge in general, the relative cost of ICT has greatly fallen over the past years and it continue to fall.
Creation of new jobs:
Probably the best advantage of information and communication technology is the creation of new and interesting jobs. Computer programmers, Systems analyzers, Hardware and Software developers, radio/TV presenter, Phone shops, ICT technician and Web designers are just some of the many new employment opportunities created with the help of ICT.
More time:
ICT has made it possible for businesses to be open 24hr all over the globe. This means that a business can be open anytime anywhere, making purchases from different countries easier and more convenient. It also means that you can have your goods delivered right to your doorstep without having to move a single muscle. Not yet full practice in Tanzania.
Speed:
Simultaneous information in writing, sound and picture can be exchanged within a fraction of seconds around the clock. Moreover, the internet allows real time ‘many to many’ interactions.
Integration:
ICT allow for the integration of different types of media. For instance, the combination of a local radio with the Internet allow access not only to much wider range of information sources but also the efficient exchange of broadcasting modules, making e.g. censorship(restriction) more difficult.
1.1 (b) The role of ICT in making awareness in: Gender, HIV/AIDS, Drug/drug Abuse and
Corruption:
The role of ICT is to spread information.
Information about Gender, HIV/AIDS, Drug/drug Abuse and Corruption is dispread and received all over the world through communication media such as TV, Radio, CD-ROMs, News Papers and Computer internet etc.
Gender sensitive:
Girls and boys have equal right to join the school.
Woman have right to own land
Violate to women
Biasness
Rap
HIV transmission ways:
Sexual intercourse
Blood transmission (unsafe blood)
Untreated injection exchanging
Shape objects
HIV precaution ways:
To stop sex
To have only one lover
To use condom
HIV/AIDS victims:
To attend counseling and guidance to professional counselor
To attend treatment
Not to isolate them (stigmatization)
To provide them with a balance diet
To visit to their home, to comfort and show them love
Drug/drug Abuse:
Mental disturbance
HIV transmission way
Luck of education
Corruption:
To misuse the leadership power
To go against human rights
Globalization:
ICT has not only brought the world closer together, but it has allowed the world’s economy to become a single interdependent system. This means that we can not only share information quickly and efficiently, but we can also bring down barriers of linguistic and geographic boundaries. The world has developed into a global village due to the help of information and communication technology allowing countries like Chile and Japan who are not only separated by distance but also by language to shares ideas and information with each other.
Family life:
Home budget
Shopping timetable
Home records keeping
Reading news and stories
Refreshment i.e. games and movies
Culture changes
Bridging the cultural gap(interactivity) – Information and communication technology has helped to bridge the cultural gap by helping people from different cultures to communicate with one another, and allow for the exchange of views and ideas (facilitate dialogue), thus increasing awareness and reducing prejudice. With ICT local radios can be much more interactive and run
more economically than a decade ago.
Road safety (Transportation):
Traffic control
Driving simulators
Reservation systems
Are embedded in air traffic to provide efficiency in flying.
Traffic signs and their interpretations
Some disadvantages of ICT include:
Unemployment:
While information and communication technology may have streamlined the business process it has also crated job redundancies, downsizing and outsourcing. This means that a lot of lower and middle level jobs have been done away with causing more people to become unemployed.
Privacy:
Though information and communication technology may have made communication quicker, easier and more convenient, it has also bought along privacy issues. From cell phone signal interceptions to email hacking, people are now worried about their once private information becoming public knowledge.
Lack of job security:
Industry experts believe that the internet has made job security a big issue as since technology keeps on changing with each day. This means that one has to be in a constant learning mode, if he or she wishes for their job to be secure.
Dominant culture:
While information and communication technology may have made the world a global village, it has also contributed to one culture dominating another weaker one. For example it is now argued that US influences most young teenagers all over the world now in terms of act, dress and behave. Languages too have become overshadowed, with English becoming the primary mode of communication for business and everything else.
Health risk (hazards):
Eye strain; if you are looking at computer monitor for too long.
Neck/ back strain; this is caused by poor seating arrangement.
Repetitive strain injury (RSI); this is from using a keyboard for too long.
Fitness problems; from lack of exercise.
ICT are based on digital information held as 1s and 0s, and comprises the hardware (i.e. Computer set, Handset of Mobile phone), Software and Networks.
There are also other technology apart from digital, others include:
- “Intermediate” technology, still based largely on analogy information held as electromagnetic waves such as radio, television and telephone.
- “Literate” technology, based on information held as the written word such as books and newspapers
- “Organic” technology, based solely on the human body such as brain and sound waves.
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Therefore in building up the model of ICT, two separate elements have already been identified: The technology (1) and the information on which it operates (2). Other elements are IS (Information System- collection of hardware, software, people, procedures, and data) and Institutional and other influencing factors (e.g. Political, economic, socio-cultural, technical and legal).