Concept of ICT

 ICT is technology that supports activities involving information. Such activities include gathering, processing, storing and presenting data. Increasingly these activities also involve collaboration and communication. Hence IT has become ICT: information and communication technology.

 Meaning & Definition-

Some underlying principles 

• Technology does not exist in isolation.
• ICT contributes at various points along a line of activity
• ICT is used in activities – the ICT use depends on the activities
• The key outputs of educational activities are context are knowledge, experience and products
• The output should be useful to the users (self and others)

What is a useful concept of ICT? 

It depends on the local culture and the particular ICT available and how it is configured and managed. The understanding, management and configuration of the available technology might vary the concept of ICT from a collection of tools and devices used for particular tasks, eg, publishing, course delivery, transaction processing... an organised set of equipment (like a 'workshop') for working on information and communication components of integrated arrangements of devices, tools, services and practices that enable information to be collected, processed, stored and shared with others components in a comprehensive system of people, information and devices that enables learning, problem solving and higher order collaborative thinking