INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (FCC123) Week V

IT & ICT

In the first trimester of my foundation studies, week five is the busiest week because my lecturer had to finish all the Information Technology that related to Information Communication and Technology. Firstly, my class started on Tuesday at 3.00pm in Lecture Theater 01. My friends and I were taught about Information Technology (IT) that was a term refers to all forms of technology that used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms, like telecommunications product. There were two concepts of Information Technology that my lecturer had explained us, such as; Information Technology Architecture and Information Technology Infrastructure. In addition, Information Technology Architecture was a map or plan of the information assets in an organization. Another thing was Information Technology Infrastructure that was the physical facilities, IT components (computer hardware, software, and communication technologies), IT services (data management, system development, and security management), and IT personnel (people/individual work with IT&IS) that support an entire organization.

In that week, I also learnt Information Communication and Technology (ICT). It was on Wednesday 7th of November 2012 and the class was in the morning at 10.30am.My lecturer explained us about ICT refers to technologies that provide access to information through telecommunications. It was similar to Information Technology (IT), but focuses primarily on communication technologies that include the Internet, wireless networks, cell phones, and other communication mediums. Nowadays, the usage of ICT has changed society today as much as the industrial revolution changed society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, like the usage ICT in Education, Banking, Business, Government, Sciences, and Healthcare. 

In the end of class, my lecturer gave me a project that describes how ICT used in the field of science in my country. It was a group project that included all my country-mates from Indonesia. My country-mates and I described about Java Edu-Game which was an application for gaming and importance to students who loved playing game in order to make them knowledgeable in sciences, mathematic as well as computer technology.

INFORMATION SYSTEM

System Information was a set of elements or components. I learnt this system in my tutorial class on Friday, 9th of November 2012. Actually, System Information was an application of computer based Information Technology (combinations of hardware, software, infrastructure, and trained personnel) used to facilitate planning, control, coordination, and decision making in an organization. There were three main things in information system in organization such as; business, people, and information. 

Above all, the information system that related to hardware, software, database, people, and procedure are to build the payroll, library management, marketing, and campus management system. Moreover, Computer Base Information System (CBIS) is interrelated components.

 these are the COMPONENTS OF CBIS :

1. PEOPLE-----ManageRunProgrammaintain---System.

2.TELECOMMUNICATION-----Electronic transmission of signals for communications which enables organizations to carry out their processes and task through effective computer networks. 

3. SOFTWARE-----Consist of computer programs that govern the operation of the computer.

4. HARDWARE----- Consists of computer equipment used to perform input, processing and output activities. 

5. DATABASE-----An organized collection of interrelated data (records)
6. PROCEDURE------Strategies, policies, methods and rules for using computer information system including operation, security and maintenance of the computer.

Another thing that I learnt from my lecturer, Miss Khairunnisha was :

• Networks: connect computers and equipment in a building, around the country or around the world to enable electronic communication.
• Internet: World’s largest computer network actually consisting of thousands of interconnected networks all freely exchanging information.