Information and Communication Technologies

- Deals with the use of different communication

technologies such as mobile phones, telephone,
internet, etc. to locate , save, send, and edit information.
 ICT in the PHILIPPINES
 Philippines as “ICT Hub of Asia”
 Huge growth of ICT related jobs around the country, one of
which is call center of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing)
centers.
 According to 2013 edition of Measuring the Information
Society by the International Telecommunication Union, there
are 106.8 cellphones per 100 Filipinos in the year 2012.
 In a data gathered by the Annual Survey of Philippines Business
and Industries in 2010, the ICT industry shares 19.3% of the
total employment population.
 Time magazines declared Makati City, Philippines-Rank 1 as
the “Selfiest Cities around the world rank 9 is Cebu City.
 WWW(World Wide Web)
• When WWW was invented, most web pages are static.
Static (also known as flat page or stationary page) in
the same that the page “as is” and cannot be
manipulated by the user. This referred to as Web 1.0.
 Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 allows the user to interact with the page known as
DYNAMIC PAGE; instead of just reading a page, the user may
be able to comment or create a user account. Dynamic page
refers to the web pages that are affected by user input of
preference.

Examples of Web 2.0

• Social networking sites
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Video sharing sites
 Key Features of Web 2.0
 Folksonomy- allows users to categorize and classify/arrange information
using freely chosen keywords (e.g. tagging). Popular social networking sites
such as Twitter, Instagram, facebook, etc. use tags that start with a pound
sign (#) or hashtag.
 Rich User Interface- content is dynamic and is responsive to user’s
input. An example would be a website that shows local content. In the case
of social networking sites, when logged on, your account is used to modify
what you see in their website.
 User Participation – the owner of website is not the only one who is able
to put content. Others are able to place a comments, reviews, and evaluation.
 Long Tail- services are offered on demand rather than on a one-time
purchase. This is synonymous to subscribing to a data plan that charges you
for the amount of time you spent on Internet or a data plan that charges you
for the amount of bandwidth you used.
 Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web- is a movement by the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). The semantic web provides a framework that allows data to be
shared and reuse to deliver web content specifically targeting the user.

Web 3.0 is yet to be fully realized because of several problems:

• Compatibility- HTML files and current web browsers could not
support web 3.0.
• Security- the user’s security is also question since the machine is saving
his or her preferences.
• Vastness- the World Wide Web already contains billions of web pages.
• Vagueness- certain words are imprecise. The words “old” and “small”
would depend to the user.
• Logic- since machines use logic, there are certain limitations for a
computer to be able to predict what the user is referring to at a given time.