Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTs)

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be broadly defined as the means of creation, storage, management and dissemination of information by electronic means. The ICT sector as a whole (telecommunication, broadcasting, computer hardware and software related technologies) has emerged as a strategically important sector driving social and economic change in India.
• ICTs are those technologies that enable the handling of information and facilitate different forms of communication.
• These include:
  • Capturing technologies (camcorders)
  • Storage technologies (CD-ROMs, DVDs, Pen drives, etc)
  • Processing technologies (application software)
  • Communication technologies (local area networks)
  • Display technologies (computer monitors, LCDs)
• ICTs include old (radio, television) and new technologies (internets, information kiosks, mobiles) that facilitate the storage and transfer of information. This distinction may also be not appropriate as radio, television, satellite technologies and the internet are being combined in innovative ways. Browsing the web on television or from a cell phone, making phone call from computer, seeing an unfinished movie in a TV in the cell phone, SMS are indications of these convergence trends.
• The newer technologies in communication system include Expert Systems (ES),Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Desk Top Publishing (DTP), Databases(DBS), Compact-Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), Networks, Electronic Mail(E-Mail), Electronic Bulletin Boards (EBB), On-line Service (OLS), Electronic Journals (EJS), ICTs, Kiosks, Teleconferencing and Electronic Information Retrieval System (EIRS). Some of these technologies are discussed