INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

I.C.T. is becoming a part and parcel of human life. The discoveries and inventions in science and technology have improved the speed of communication. Accordingly with the available tools, I.C.T. is helping common man to fulfill his needs. It has become integral part of new era.

IMPORTANCE of I.C.T. :

ICT has proved its importance in every arena.

Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an extended synonym for information technology(IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications^[1] and the integration of telecommunications(telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.^[2]

The term ICT is also used to refer to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networksthrough a single cabling or link system. There are large economic incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone network) to merge the telephone network with the computer network system using a single unified system of cabling, signal distribution and management.

On 21 December 2001, the United Nations General Assembly approved Resolution 56/183, endorsing the holding of theWorld Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing today's information society.^[10] According to this resolution, the General Assembly related the Summit to the United Nations Millennium Declaration's goal of implementing ICT to achieve Millennium Development Goals. It also emphasized a multi-stakeholder approach to achieve these goals, using all stakeholders including civil society and the private sector, in addition to government