2. Index
• What is information technology?
• Applications of Information Technology in Our Daily
Life
IT in Education
IT at Home
IT in Public Places
IT in Business
IT in Government
• Benefits of information technology
• Disadvantages of Information Technology
3. What is Information Technology?
Information Technology deals with the use of computers to
store, retrieve and transmit information. The
acquisition, processing storage and dissemination of
vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a
microelectronic-based combination of computing and
telecommunication are it’s main fields. Some of the modern
and emerging fields of information technologies are next
generation web technologies, bioinformatics, cloud
computing, global information systems, large scale knowledge
basis etc. are mainly driven in the field of computer science.
4. Applications of Information
Technology in Our Daily Life
• IT in Education
– Students have many opportunities to learn the
basic computer skills to facilitate their learning.
Multimedia learning centre
(MMLC) in secondary school
Classroom with a
projector
6. • IT in Public Places
– Internet access service
The public can obtain information from the Internet
more conveniently
Internet access service in public
area
7. • IT in Business
– Office automation
Office automation helps office workers improve
working efficiency productivity, data security and
communications with others
An automated office
8. • IT in Business
– E-commerce
Refers to commercial activities carried out in an
electronic network
e-bay, a popular online auction site
9. • IT in Government
– UID project
• Contains personal data, templates of thumb
prints and photograph of card holder
• Information stored is encrypted with high
security
– Railway Bookings
• Helps in booking the tickets online
– Bill payments
• Reduces the physical movement of people for paying
bills.
10. Benefits of information technology
Globalization - IT has not only brought the
world closer together, but it has allowed the
world's economy to become a single
interdependent system.
Communication - With the help of information
technology, communication has also become
cheaper, quicker, and more efficient.
11. Cost effectiveness - Information technology has
helped to computerize the business process
thus streamlining businesses to make them
extremely cost effective money making
machines.
Bridging the cultural gap - Information technology
has helped to bridge the cultural gap by helping
people from different cultures to communicate
with one another
12. Creation of new jobs - the best advantage of
information technology is the creation of new
and interesting jobs.
All of these examples can be summed up as
such: Information Technology makes business
easier.
13. Disadvantages of Information
Technology
Unemployment - While information technology
may have streamlined the business process it
has also crated job redundancies
example- a lot of lower and middle level jobs
have been done away with causing more people
to become unemployed.
14. Privacy - Though information technology may
have made communication quicker, easier and
more convenient, it has also bought along
privacy issues.
Lack of job security - one has to be in a
constant learning mode, if he or she wishes for
their job to be secure.
15. Dominant culture - While information 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
how most young teenagers all over the world now
act, dress and behave.
