Information And Communications Technologies ( Icts )

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According to the Health Recourses and Services Administration, “Tele health is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health related education, public health, and health administration”(para 1) . Technology is has taken over our every-day lives and has slowly integrated into our health care system. According to Ronda Hughes, “Tele nursing is the use of technology to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice” (para 3). The two terms are closely related. Tele nursing cannot be defined without first defining the term of tele health, but what does the tele heath and nursing world look like? What does a tele nurse do and how is it a benefit to the patients and/or the nursing profession?

Lack of access to ICT goods and services poses social and economic disadvantages. More and more, developing countries are recognizing that they cannot compete in the new global market unless they take advantage of the ICT revolution. Countries that do not undertake measures to enhance their ICT infrastructure risk not just being marginalized but also being completely bypassed in the new global order. The idea that some information and communication technologies are vital to quality civic life is not new. Some suggest that the Internet and other ICTs are somehow transforming society, improving our mutual understanding, eliminating power differentials, realizing a truly free and democratic world society, and other benefits.

Information Technology is a developing technology that aims at obtaining the maximum information with minimum of resources, labour or time. According to the dictionary, Information Technology is “the study or use of electronic equipment especially computers, for storing, analysing and distribution of information of all kinds, including words, numbers and pictures.”

The field of Information Technology is a broad field. In the Corporate aspect of IT, it has many sub-categories and jobs that in actuality work together to create one system. I am more into the Networking management and Technician side of Information Technology. We work with computers communicating over a network with other computers and the internet. There are many other important parts to IT like general computer troubleshooters, and server managers, web-interface creators, and database managers. Though I have researched some articles I am interested in which aspect is more beneficial in a corporate aspect and which is less needed. Here are two issues that have risen that are related to IT in the corporate world.

Over the years the corporate world has realized the fact that in order to remain in the business in an aggressively competitively environment, organizations must ensure that they remain in the process of constant innovation. While this innovation is immensely important for the organization's individual success, it also has great impact on macro environment as well.

The Information technology industry, where nothing is predictable and constant change has become a usual trend, is now on its new phase of its evolution stages. According to Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration: “Information Technology is no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it’s now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition” (http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/1997/april/text/theory_text.html 04.02.06). This paper will examine and analyze the issues and challenges like the one that has been raised by Professor Richard L. Nolan. The essay will be based on the case study of the company called Canon, which automated all its documentation and information flow procedures by

Information is a key factor that plays a large role in the day-to-day activities within the health care sector. It is generated and processed by health care providers, such as physicians, nurses and hospitals as they provide care to their patients. However, managing that information and using it productively poses an ongoing challenge. It is especially challenging in the complexity of the U.S. health care sector, with its many different types of providers, services and settings for care (Congressional Budget Office, 2008). Information and communication Technologies (ICT) has the potential to greatly increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the health sector by assisting healthcare providers with managing information. It also has the potential to lead to better cost-efficiency in the health sector.

Physiological monitoring system is a vital part of telemedicine and free soft ware in the current world machines like one above makes the monitoring of the patient easy to an extent that every potential danger is clearly understood before it causes any problem to the patient.

“Globalization and rapid improvements in information and communication technologies (ICT) have resulted in a closely integrated global labour and capital market (UNCTAD, 2004) where firms have greater access to human capital scattered around the globe” (Lewin, 2005 and Volberda, 2006). Due this the firms have started offshoring their business to different countries as an effective strategic practice so as to increase their profits. Offshoring can be done in two ways i.e by setting up a partnership with an existing company in the country or by setting up their base. Creating value through outsourcing has emerged as an important strategy for firms the services sector in the knowledge based global economy. In spite of the growing significance of outsourcing, we have limited knowledge of offshoring and outsourcing to emerging markets that are moving up from providing low‐end services to high‐end services (Javalgi et al., 2009). “Increasingly, standardized IT and business processes as well as high-valued-added activities, for instance engineering, R&D and product design, are being offshored” (Lieberman, 2004 and UNCTAD, 2005). “Emerging markets such as South Korea, Malaysia, India, China, Russia, and Brazil continue to lead in the outsourcing of knowledge‐based services” (Radhakrishnan, 2007). This leads to a fight to sustain this advantage over other countries from possible offshoring.

Information technology is a critical part of today society and more than ever in the business operation, production and demands internally for IT support continues to rise due to multiple device used by employees that are sophisticated technologies example are virtualization employed in corporate data centers. IT service desk controller faces growing accumulation of tickets, resolution times and slow response and unhappy employees. IT service desk staff needs help, and this help comes in forms of applications that gives incident with assigned ticket numbers for an overworked employee to flow and resolve cases. Customer’s expectations for service is rising and on their terms. However, being able to meet this rising needs, means providing types of personalized service that goes above and beyond what competitors can provide. IT service desk solutions in today market are different from few years ago, and the most common, dramatic technology change is where the IT service desk situated which is not within the company’s walls, instead reside in the cloud. Next generation of IT services desk technologies will take advantage of cloud computing to provide collaborative, mobile services, enterprise-class disaster recovery benefits and proactive without the associated costs. One author, Grossman has claimed there is

There is a remarkable growth in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Developing Countries (DCs). Telecommunication is one of the areas where ICT is recording an ongoing rapid change. Mobile phones are becoming pervasive in daily scenario; and among the beneficiaries of this are farmers. Farmers are using mobile phones in executing their farming business and daily life. At the same time, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are also showing a result in developed part of our world. WSNs potential in sensing various environmental condition, their affordability and applicability motivated conducting of this master thesis. Therefore, the objective of conducting this master thesis is to investigate

As the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the Digital Economy has begun to enter our field of vision, and it has become an important driving force of global economic and social development. This idea has been launched by OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). Due to the promotion of the digital economy, the development of human changes from the atomic process to information processing (Negroponte, 1995). In digital economy, the digital network and communication technology facilities provide a global platform for individuals and organizations around the world, in order to achieve communication and cooperation between each other. Digital economy refers to the economic process of manufacturing and supplying electronic products and services for the electronic commerce or trade caused by electronic commerce. In this process, the production and management are electronic, the connection between suppliers, consumers and related activities are made by the Internet and the world wide web technology. The rapid development of the digital economy makes the governments aware that the development of digital economy has great significance on national and regional economic and also the social development. And then the governments have begun to pay attention to the development of the digital economy, regard it as the new power, new engine of the national economic development (Tapscott, 1996; Mesenbourg, 2001).

Our world is going through a great change. For preparing students for the demands of today’s world, education has to be delivered in a vastly different way. A real 21st century education must involve something more than information literacy alone. Besides the 3 R’s of education (reading, writing and arithmetic); a new “4 Cs” - Creativity and innovation, Critical thinking and problem solving, Collaboration and Communication are also required for our students to be able to compete in this new world, Sherrelle Walker, M.A. (2012). As a result of ICT integration in education, information sharing is happening more rapidly and more easily than we could carry that information into the classrooms.

How a student and individual can maintain effective communication with his tutor during studies using ICT.