INTRODUCTION TO ICT LESSON & OBJECTIVES
and traversing information resources on the world
 Improves their knowledge on how ICT affects their
everyday and the states of our nation
 Compare and contrast the differences between online
platforms, sites, content.
 Understand the future of the World Wide Webthrough
Web 3.0
 Learn the different trends in ICT and use them to their
advantage.
Information and Communication Technology
-deals with the use of different communication technologies
such as mobile phones, telephone, internet to locate, to save
send and edit information.
ICT IN THE PHILIPPINES
 Philippines is dub as the “ICT hub of Asia” because of
huge growth of ICT related jobs, one of which is BPO
(Business Process Outsourcing)
 ICT Department in the Philippines is responsible for the
planning, development and promotion of the country’s
information and communication technology (ICT) agenda
in support of national development.
INTERNET
 is the global system of interconnected computer
networks that use the internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to
link billions of devices worldwide.
 Means the connecting a computer to any other
computer anywhere in the world via a dedicated routers
and servers
 Sometimes called simply as “the net”, is a worldwide
system of computer networks in which users at anyone
computer can get information from other computer.
WORLDWIDE WEB 1.0
 STATIC is web 1.0
 When WWW was invented most web pages were
Static(flat page or stationary page) in the same that the
page “as is” and cannot be manipulated by the user.
 Usually written in plain HTML and what is displayed to
the user
WEB PAGES
 Is/are hypertext document connected and suitable for
the Worldwide Web
WEBSITES
 A location connected to the internet that maintains one
or more pages on the Worldwide Web
 It is a related collection of worldwide web files that
includes a beginning file called a Home Page.
WEB BROWSER
 . It displays a web page on a monitor/mobile device.
 Is a software application for retrieving, presenting
wide web
DYNAMIC PAGE WEB 2.0
 Allows the user to interact with the page
known as Dynamic Page instead of just
reading the page, the user may be able to
comment or create a user account
 Refers to the web pages that are affected
by user input or preference.
 Written using a server-side scripting
language such as PHP. ASP or cold of
fusion.
FEATURES OF WEB 2.0
1. Folksonomy – allows user to categorize
and classify information using freely
chosen keyword
2. Rich User Experience – content is
dynamic and is responsive to user input.
3. User Participation – the owner of the
website is not only one who is able to put
content on their own by means of
comments, reviews & evaluation.
4. Long Tail – services that offered on
demand rather than on a one time
purchase. It is synonymous to subscribing
to a data plan that charges you for the
amount of time you spent in the internet
or data plan that charges you for the
amount of bandwith you used.
5. Software as a service – users will be
subscribe to a software only when needed
rather than purchasing them (Ex. Google
docs used to create and edit word
processing and spread sheet.
WEB 3.0 SEMANTIC WEB
 Is a movement led by the Worldwide W
eb Consortium (W3C)
 W3C standard encourages web
developers to include semantic content in
their web pages.
 Semantic Web is component of Web 3.0.
 Provides a common framework that
allows data to be shared and reused across
application, enterprise, community
boundaries.
 The aim of Web 3.0 is to have machine or
servers understand that user’s preferences to
be able to deliver web content specially
targeting the user.
 PROBLEMS WITH WEB 3.0

 COMPATIBILITY – HTML files and current web browsers

could not supported web 3.0
 SECURITY – the user’s security is also question since
the machine is saving his/her preferences.
 VASTNESS – certain words are imprecise or the words
are “old” and “small” would depend to the user.
 LOGIC – since machines use logic, there are certain
limitations for a computer to able to predict what the
user is referring to a given time.

TRENDS IN ICT

 CONVERGENCE - is the synergy of the technological

advancements to work on similar goal/task.
 SOCIAL MEDIA - is a website application/online
channel that enables, web users to create, co-create,
discuss, modify and exchange user-generated content.
 MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES – devices that have the ability
to do the tasks that were originally found in PC. Several
of these devices capable of using high speed
internet,the latest model devices use 4G Networking
(LTE), which is currently the fast mobile network.

6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

1. SOCIAL NETWORKS – these are sites that allow you to

connect with other people with the same interest or
background.
2. BOOKMARKING SITE – these are sites that allow you to
save and manage links to various websites & resources.
3. SOCIAL NEWS – sites that allow users to post their own
news items/links to others new sources. The user can
also comment on the post and posted ne ranked.
4. MEDIA SHARING – sites that allow you to upload and
share media content like images, music, video.
5. MICROBLOGGING – sites that focus on short updates
from the user. Those subscribed to the user will be able
to received these updated.
6. BLOGS & FORUM – sites that allow users to post their
content, other users are able to comment on the said
topic.

MOBILE OS
 IOS – use in Apple devices such as Iphones and Ipad.
 ANDROID – an open source OS developed by Google.
Being open source means mobile phone companies use
this OS for free.
 BLACKBERRY OS – uses in Blackberry devices.
 WINDOWS PHONE OS – a closed source & propriery OS
developed by Microsoft.
 SYMBIAN – the original smartphones OS used by Nokia
devices.
 WebOS – originally used in smartphones, now used in
smart TVs.
 WINDOWS MOBILE – developed by Microsoft for
smartphones and pocket PCs.
 APPLIED ECONOMICS

 SCARCITY – productive resources are limited therefore, you
cannot have all the goods and services you want.
 PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES – the inputs used to produce the
goods and services that people wants.
 ECONOMICS – study of how people use their scarce resources
to satisfy their unlimited wants.
 NATURAL RESOURCES – so called “gift of nature” use to
produce goods and services include both renewable and
exhaustible resources.
 CAPITAL GOODS – all human creations used to produce goods
and services
 GOOD – an item you can see, feel & touch that requires scarce
resources to produce and satisfies human wants.
 SERVICE – something not physical that requires scarce
resources to produce and satisfies human wants.
 HUMAN RESOURCES – the broad category of human efforts,
both physical & mental used to produce goods & services.
 LABOR – the physical and mental effort used to produce good
services.
 ENTREPRENEUR – a profit seeker who develops a new
product/ process & assumes the risk of profit/loss.
 MARGINAL – incremental, additional; refers to change in an
economic variable; a change in status quo.
 MICROECONOMICS – study of the economic behavior in
particular market.
 MACROECONOMICS – study of economic behavior of the
economy as a whole, especially the national economy.
MARKET PARTICIPANT
 Household
 Firms
 Government
 Rest of the world
 MARKET the means by which buyers and sellers carry out
exchange.
 OPPURTUNITY COST – the value of the best alternative passed
up for the chosen item/activity.
 ECONOMIC SYSTEM – the set of mechanisms & institutions
that resolves the what, how & whom question for an economy
ALL ECONOMIES MUST ANSWER THE 3 QUESTION:
 What goods and services will be produced?
 How will they produced?
 For whom will they produced?
PURE COMMAND ECONOMY
-an economic system in which all resources are
government owned and all production is directed by
the central plans of government.
PROBLEMS W/ PURE COMMAND ECONOMY
1. Consumers get lower priority.
2. Little freedom of choice
3. Central planning can be inefficient
4. Resources owned by the central authority are
sometimes wasted.
5. Environmental damage
6. No role for entrepreneur.
MIXED ECONOMY - an economic system that mixes
central planning w/ competitive markets.
TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY – an economic system in
the process of shifting from central planning to
competitive markets.
TRADITIONAL ECONOMY – an economic system
shaped largely by custom/religion.
DEMAND – A relation showing the quantities of a
good that consumers are willing and able to buy
period at various prices, other things constant.
MARKET DEMAND – the sum of the individual
demands of all consumers in the market.
CHANGES in the shift of the demand curve:
1. Consumer income
2. The prices of related goods
3. The number & composition of consumers
4. Consumer expectations
5. Consumer taste
DETERMINANTS OF SUPPLY
1. The cost of resources use to make the good.
2. The price of other goods these resources
could make
3. The technology used to make the goods
4. The no. of sellers in the market.

PURE MARKET ECONOMY – an economic system in which

private firms account for all production.

Problems with pure Market Economy

1. Difficulty enforcing property rights.
2. Some people have few resources to sell
3. Some firms try to monopolize markets
4. No public goods.
5. Externalities
6. Economic Fluctuations