From the "Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing it is:
"Information and Communication Technology".
I am content with that.
Ian Murray
At 01:49 PM 4/27/2001 +0100, Fytton Rowland wrote:
>Not an answer to Helen's question, I'm afraid, but another question.
>
>I first met "ICT" in the Dearing report -- until then, plain old "IT" was
>the acronym generally used. I believed "ICT" to stand for "information and
>communications technology", but recently I was marking some student work
>that expanded it to "information, communications and technology", a
>definition so broad that it might include almost everything in the modern
>world! Does anyone know whether the definition of the term "ICT" has been
>expanded to this latter one, or was it just a student error?
>
>Fytton Rowland.
>
>
>At 01:32 PM 4/27/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>I'm doing a dissertation, on the impact of ICT on mobile library
>>service provision and use, and am looking for an authoritative
>>definition of ICT which does not focus on the Internet solely. If
>>anyone has any suggestions could they please email me at the
>>following address
>>
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>Thanks
>>Helen Towers
>>email: [log in to unmask]
>>Department of Information Studies
>>University of Sheffield
>>Western Bank
>>Sheffield
>>S10 2TN
>>UK
>
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>Programme Tutor for Publishing with English,
>Department of Information Science,
>Loughborough University,
>Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.
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Ian R Murray, Lecturer
Director, Undergraduate Programmes & Programme tutor,
Information and Computing
Dept. of Information Science
Loughborough University,Loughborough,Leicestershire, LE11 3TU UK
Tel: +44 (0)1509 223068 Fax: +44 (01509) 223053
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