Universidad Autonoma del Carmen (UNACAR)

Faculty of Educatives Sciences and Humanities

Degree of Foreign LanguagesGiezi Sinai Espinosa Alvarez

Information and Communication Technologies3rd. SemesterACTIVITY IV

15/06/2015

What is ICT?

ICT is acronym for Information and Communication Technologies

ICT can be considered to be built on the 4

C’s – Computing, Communications,

Content, and (the often overlooked)

human Capacity.

The recent World Summit on theInformation Society (WSIS) focused

extensively on 3 Cs, communications, content, and capacity building, and

less so on computers.

The above four interrelated features determine

the value of ICT for a user:

Awareness – People must know what can be

done with ICT; Availability – ICT must be offered

within reasonable proximity, with appropriate

hardware/software

Accessibility – relates to the ability to use the ICT

(spanning literacy, eliteracy, language, interfaces,

etc.)

Affordability – All ICT usage together should,

ideally, be only a few percent of one’s income

(under 10% maximum on average).

• affordable• able to change

rapidly• innovative and

capable of significantexpansion

• transparently and well managed

• easy to use • vendor neutral • globally inclusive

• reliabletrustworthy