[Telecentres] Basic Telecentre Items/ICT Definition

[Don Cameron]

>> in the hopes of informing the public as well as techies/specialists who
may only associate ICTs with the Internet and computers (snip)

 

Elizabeth we are certainly in agreement on the nature of ICT's however in my
experience it is more the masses, the media, politicians, academics of
non-technical disciplines and other non technical people who tend to
associate ICT's solely with computers and the Internet. Most technically
trained people are well aware of the silent '&' in ICT's as well as the
grammatical inappropriateness of adding 's' to an already inflected plural
noun (technology) - yet we use the acronym nonetheless. The exceptions in
technical professions are usually promoters of advanced ICT who tend to
discount any benefits of older yet more adaptable and economical technology
(the 'essential nature' of broadband deployment as a case in point).

 

Your comments certainly beg a question. how appropriate is this acronym of
ICT's? - We are not dealing with Information Communications Technologies
(ICT's), we are dealing with Information And Communications Technology
(I&CT). Perhaps there would be less confusion about the true nature of I&CT
were we to promote the use of an accurate descriptor.

 

(I think it is acceptable to use '&' instead of 'A' in this day and age
however acknowledge that some may prefer the acronym IACT as in RADAR where
the word 'And' warrants an 'A' to be included).  

 

Rgds, Don 

 

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