A terminological query.
The Dearing Report on higher education introduced the concept of Communications
and Information Technology (CIT or C&IT or CITs). The public sector seem to
reorder the words and talk of ICT. On the other hand, I recollect that
when Information Technology (IT) was being promoted by the UK Government in the
early 80s it was held to be a combination of information and computer and
telecommunications technologies (though the technology has always dominated the
concept).
Do these terms have distinct meanings, or is ICT/CIT just a a fashion change -
a sort of New IT or Cool IT?
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Ian Winship
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle | phone: 0191 227 4150
City Campus Library | fax: 0191 227 4563
Newcastle upon Tyne |
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