Glossary:ICT

From NGOPedia

(Information and Communication Technologies)

Any computer-based technologies used for digital information manipulation and communication. Technically, this also includes telephone, fax and similar technologies. In this document, we concentrate on computer technologies although we realise that the use of and integration with mobile cell phone technologies is one of the greatest computing opportunities in Africa. Sometimes �IT� (Information Technology) is used to refer to the computer-related technologies and �IS� (Information Systems) to the combination of computer-based systems (this includes the software applications as well as data and human resources).