Areas where ICTs are used

Education ICTs: 

• Mobile Learning: mobile devices with internet access and computing capabilities will soon overtake personal computers as the information appliance of choice in the classroom.
• Cloud Computing: provides the ubiquitous connectivity to access information sitting in the “cloud”.
• Ubiquitous learning: In addition to hardware and Internet access, it requires the availability of virtual mentors or teachers, and/or opportunities for peer to peer and self-paced, deeper learning.

10 Global Trebds in ICT and Education. (2010, 13 enero). October 9th, link: http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/10-global-trends-in-ict-and-education

Science ICTs:

• Body Scanners: Body scanners allow doctors to find and treat conditions such as tumours in their early stages when the chances of treating them successfully are much greater.
• Organ Transplants: Computerised databases are used to help match patients who are waiting for organ transplants such as a new kidney, liver or heart, with suitable organs from donors.
• Patient monitoring: Computers are used in hospitals to monitor critically ill patients in intensive care units.

Revision World. ICT in Medicine. October 9th, 2018, link: https://revisionworld.com/gcse-revision/ict/applications-ict/ict-medicine

Business ICTs:

- Maintains business records: ICT can help keep updated records on employees, competitors and customers.

• Provides effective communication: Allows people all over the world to keep in touch no matter location or time zone.
• Provides information for staff: ICT helps employees and managers have information at the fingertips via business letters, reports and memos, or sales figure spreadsheets or customer databases.

BBC - Higher Bitesize Business Management - Business information and ICT : Revision, Page8. October 9th, 2018, link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/business_management/business_enterprise/business_information_ict/revision/8/

Transport ICTs:

• Safer mobility: Using increasingly widespread and affordable ICT, transport users can now report cases of harassment and discrimination.
• Planning and accessibility of transport: The innovative application helps identify problem areas for accessible transport; involving people in the process of transport planning by finding out and rating how accessible different places and transport networks are.
• Disseminate information on market prices: Improvements in ICT technology have allowed women and men around the world to access markets in growing numbers by lowering information barriers and reducing the costs associated with market transactions

World Bank. (2012, August 21st) Getting ready for ICT’s potential to make transport safer and more. Link: http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/getting-ready-for-ict-s-potential-to-make-

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Conclusion: In my opinion, ICTs are very important in our everyday life, we use them all the time without noticing; the ICTs that I investigated work in the areas of Business, Medicine, Transport and Education; they are very important in these areas because they help make everything easier for the people that work in there.