Achievements in IT

1. ACHIEVEMENTS IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

2. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Is
Branch Of Engineering That Deals
With The Use Of Computers And
Telecommunications To Retrieve
And Store And Transmit
Information.
WHAT is INFORMATION
TECHNOLGY?

3. ACHIEVEMENTS
•Impacts In Life Of People
•Social Interaction
•Climate, Weather And Emergency Response
•People With Disabilities
•In Education
•In Agriculture
•In Healthcare

4. IMPACTS IN LIFE OF PEOPLE
• Accesstoinformation
Possibly the greatest effect of ICT on
individuals is the huge increase in
access to information and services that
has accompanied the growth of the
Internet.

5. NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT ON PEOPLE
• Job loss
One of the largest negative effects of ICT can be the loss of
a person’s job.
This has both economic consequences, loss of income, and
social consequences, loss of status and self esteem.
• Reduced personal interaction
Being able to work from home is usually regarded as being
a positive effect of using ICT, but there can be negative
aspects as well. e.g. distance learning and on-line tutorials.
• Reduced physical activity
 A third negative effect of ICT is that users may adopt a
more sedentary lifestyle.

7. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
• Social Media Platforms WHICH Allows People To
Participate In A Wider, Even Worldwide, Society.
• Provide Spaces Where Individuals Can Participate
In Expressions Of Civic Engagement.
• Researchers Say That “Social Networking Cannot
Be Thrown Out As Leisure But As A Broader
Conceptualization Of Development Research.”

8. NEGATIVES DUE TO ICT IN SOCIETY
• Probably The Largest Effect That ICT Use Has On Society
Is Allowing Members Of Society To Have Greatly
IncreasedAccessToInformation.
• This Can Have Numerous Negative Effects, Such As:
CausingADigitalDivideBetweenThoseWhoCanAccess
InformationAndThoseWhoCannot,ReducingLevelsOf
Education And Understanding Due To The Vast Amount
Of Incorrect And Misleading Information That Is
Available Causing Moral And Ethical Problems Due To
TheNatureOfSomeOfTheMaterialAvailable.

9. CLIMATE AND WEATHER
• The Use Of ICT In Weather Forecasting Is
Broad
• Offices Use Mass Media To Inform The Public
On Weather Updates
• Monitoring Extreme Weather Events

10. EMERGENCY RESPONSE
• For Relief Operations,
• Providing Early Warnings
• Monitoring-detecting And Predicting,
• Disaster Management-supporting Emergency
Response
• Adaptation-supporting Environmental, Health And
Resource
• In 2014 When Typhoon Haiyan Hit The Philippines, The
CDAC (Communicating With Disaster Affected
Communities) Network Utilized Different Technologies
To Coordinate And Communicate Efforts Between The
Affected Communities And The Different Network's
Volunteer Organizations

11. Calamities before it revolution
• Took many time for persons to know about a
calamity happening or happened at a place far
away.
• Due to above said point rescue operations
took so much time to reach to the accident or
calamity spot

12. PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
• According To World Health Organization (WHO), 15% Of
The World's Total Population Have Disabilities
Goals OF ICT To Help Pwds
 Give Disabled People A Powerful Tool In Their Battle To
Gain Employment
 Increase Disabled People’s Skills, Confidence, And Self-
esteem
 Integrate Disabled People Socially And Economically Into
Their Communities;
 Reduce Physical Or Functional Barriers And Enlarge Scope
Of Activities Available To Disabled Persons
 Develop A Web Content That Can Be Accessed By Persons
With Disabilities Especially The Visually Impaired And
Hearing Impaired

13. PROGRAMS OF ICT TO HELP PwDS
• Estonian E-learning Development Centre And
Primus- One Activity Of Primus Is To Develop And
Run A Support System For Students With Special
Needs. This Is Done By: Developing Different
Support Services
• European Unified Approach For Assisted Lifelong
Learning (EU4ALL)- The Aim Of This Initiative Is To
Create An Accessible And Adapted Course
Addressed To Students With Different Disabilities
– Cognitive, Physical And Sensory.
• Discapnet- Website Dealing With Disability Issues.

14. PROGRAMS OF ICT TO HELP PwDs(cont)
• Plan Ceibal- Aims To Promote Digital Inclusion In
Order To Reduce The Digital Gap With Other
Countries, As Well As Among The Citizens Of
Uruguay.
• Leren En Werken Met Autisme (Learning And
Working With Autism)- Is A Dvd With Several
Tools Aimed At Helping Students With Autism Or
Autistic Spectrum Disorders In Their Transition
From Education To Work, Or Workplace Training
Settings

15. PROGRAMS OF ICT TO HELP PwDS(CONT)
• Everyday Technologies For Children With
Special Needs (Evtech)- Is A Collaborative
Initiative Aiming To Increase The Possibilities
Of Children With Special Needs To Make
Choices And Influence Their Environments In
Everyday Life By Developing Individualised
Technical Environments And Tools For Children
And Their Families.

16. EDUCATION
• Facilitate The Acquisition And Absorption Of
Knowledge
• Offering Developing Countries
Unprecedented Opportunities To Enhance
Educational Systems
• Improve Policy Formulation And Execution,
And Widen The Range Of Opportunities For
Business And The Poor

17. ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF
EDUCATION
• By Increasing Learner Motivation And
Engagement
• Distance Learning, Where Students Can
Access Teaching Materials From All Over The
World
• The Ability To Perform ‘Impossible’
Experiments’ By Using Simulations

18. ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF
EDUCATION(cont)
• By Enhancing Teacher Training Which Will
Eventually Improve Communication And
Exchange Of Information That Will Strengthen
And Create Economic And Social Development.
• The Possibility For Students To Have Individual
Learning Programs Within A Topic, Rather Than
Everybody Having To Do The Same Thing At The
Same Time At The Same Pace. More Able
Students Can Be Given More Challenging Work,
Less Able Students Can Access Remedial Lessons.

19. EXAMPLES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Chile, The Chilean Experience
 Costa Rica, The Ministry Of Education And
Fundación Omar Dengo’s Partnership
India (Kerala), It@school
Bangladesh, Brac's Computer Aided Learning
(CAL) Initiative,
 Jordan Education Initiative
Macedonia's Primary Education Project (PEP)
Malaysia, Smart School
Namibia’s Icts In Education Initiative,
 Tech/Na! Russia E-learning Support Project

20. • The IT @ School Project, is an Information
Technology project .
• under the Department of General
Education, Government of Kerala in India.
• Launched in 2001, the Project has remodeled
conventional teaching methodologies in
classrooms through the use of IT.
• The project is being implemented in over 12,000
schools in the State of Kerala, and also in schools
inMahé, Lakshadweep and the Middle East which
follow the State syllabus.
• An estimated 5 million students and 200,000
teachers are now part of this project.

21. NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF ICT ON
EDUCATION
• There are large costs involved and poorer
students / educational establishments can end
up being disadvantaged
• Students, and sometimes teachers, can get
hooked on the technology aspect, rather than
the subject content. Just because a topic can
be taught via ICT, does not mean that it is
taught most effectively via ICT

22. AGRICULTURE
• Increasing Production Efficiency – Due To Several
Environmental Threats Such As Climate Change,
Drought, Poor Soil, Erosion And Pests, The
Livelihood Of Farmers Are Unstable. Thus, The
Flow Of Information Regarding New Techniques
In Production Would Open Up New Opportunities
To Farmers By Documenting And Sharing Their
Experiences.
• Access To Price Information
• Access To Agriculture Information
• Access To National And International Markets

23. AGRICULTURE(CONT)
• Creating A Conducive Policy Environment –
Through The Flow Of Information From The
Farmers To Policy Makers, A Favorable Policy On
Development And Sustainable Growth Of The
Agriculture Sector Will Be Achieved.
• Examples
A Rice Germination Electronic Cooker
 A Robotic Tubing-grafting System For Fruit-
bearing Vegetable Seedlings
 An Air Bubble Machine And Multi-functional,
Ultrasonic Machine For Fruit Cleaning

24. AGRICULTURE BEFORE IT REVOLUTION
• Farmers did not knew how much manure they
have to use it on their fields.
• There was no HY seeds.
• The farmers where easily cheated by
middlemen with market price.
• Farmers were ignorant about land use.

25. Disadvantages
• Natural taste of object cannot be obtained.
• Due to use of synthetic chemicals used on
plants ,people get health problems like
CANCER

26. HEALTHCARE
• Health Workers Making Better Treatment Decisions;
• Hospitals Providing Higher Quality And Safer Care;
• People Making Informed Choices About Their Own
Health;
• Governments Becoming More Responsive To Health
Needs;
• National And Local Information Systems Supporting
The Development Of Effective, Efficient, And Equitable
Health Systems;
• Policymakers And The Public Becoming More Aware Of
Health Risks; And
• People Having Better Access To The Information And
Knowledge They Need For Better Health.

28. SHOPPING AND BUSSINESS
Due To Globalization Due To IT Revolution
→ Tourists Can Book Tickets ,Hotels, Resorts
→ Cine Viewers Can Book Tickets ,Know Reviews
Even Sitting At Home
→ Shopaholics Can Buy Things Cheaply,
Comparing, From A Wide Variety Of Goods
→ Estate Owners Can Advertise Them On Various
Sites

29. Usage of e-commerce by different
countries based on survey conducted
by master card
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10
20
30
40
50
60
59.4
51.2
47.6 47.1 46.7
15
22.9 24.8
Percentage
Percentage

30. Disadvantages of e-commerce
• Local Companies Which Employ Many Goes To
Loss Because Same Things Sold By Them Is Very
Much Cheap In E-market.
• Government Does Not Get Taxes For This Sale.
• Goods Have To Be Waited By Customer As It Has
To Be Loaded From Product Of Manufacture.
• Customers Don’t See The Product Before They
Buy.
• As Seller Buyer Does Not See Each Other And No
Official Reciept There May Be Underworld
Relations Or Money May Be Black.

31. Positives Negatives
In life of people
• Access to information
• Growth of internet to
know anything(world at
fingertips)
• Job loss
• Reduced personal
interaction
• Reduced Physical activity
In society
• Social networking sites • Greatly increased access
to information

32. Positves Negatives
Education
• Facilitate The Acquisition And
Absorption Of Knowledge
• Offering Developing Countries
Unprecedented Opportunities To
Enhance Educational Systems
• Distance education
• Impossible experiments through
virtual reality
• Large costs
• May get hooked on technological
aspect rather than the subject
content
Agriculture
• Increased production efficiency
• Access to price information
• Access to agriculture information
• Access to markets
• Natural taste of object cannot be
obtained
• Synthetic chemicals used may
cause diseases

33. Reference
• Wikipedia-free encyclopedia-Information and
communication technologies for development
• Google images
• Youtube