Present Role of ICT

Word processing

Store data

Drawing

Television

Presentation

Medicine

 

Education

•          Learning

•          Teaching

•          Educational administration

 

Eg.

Computer Assisted Learning ( CAL )

Computer Assisted School Administration

This involves the use of IT to automate activities in school administration such as keeping records of students, examination results, normal office work, communication with other schools via e-mail etc.

 

Accounting and Banking

 

    IT is used to automate manual accounting  systems such as general ledger, sales and purchases, stock control ( with point of sales terminal connected to stock data base ) In banking the use of Automatic Teller Machine is a useful application  of IT.

 

Transportation

    IT is used in transportation by railways and airlines for reservation of seats, control of traffic and maintaining time-tables of vehicles and duties of crew. It is used all fields of air traffic. Every air craft has a small computer fitted to help pilots in various ways.

 

Medicine

In hospitals special computers are built inside different equipment. For example CAT scanners ( Computer Axial Tomography ) Further maintenance of patients records in electronic databases enhances service provided to them.

 

Engineering

    Engineers use IT to prepare drawings of machines, tools, bridges, buildings etc. (Computer Assisted Drawing- CAD). Also computers are used to control manufacture of items (Computer Assisted Manufacture). The use of Robots in industries is another example

 

Defense & Security

    IT is very useful in tracking down of criminals by maintenance of their databases. In warfare computers are used to guide missiles.

 

Entertainment

    This basically covers video games, music and movies played back by computers with multimedia facilities.

 

Special purpose computers are used in modern house hold appliances like washing machines, microwave ovens, television sets and video cassette players etc