Eric - Maybe something helpful below regarding ICT ******************************************** Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media & Design Institute Research Associate - NetLab - Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 tkennedy@netwomen.ca www.netwomen.ca www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative ******************************************** History if Information Technology: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm and here: http://www.uta.fi/viesverk/fmcs/information.html Definitions of Information technology (IT) on the Web: Includes all matters concerned with the furtherance of computer science and technology and with the design, development, installation, and implementation of information systems and applications [San Diego State University]. An information technology architecture is an integrated framework for acquiring and evolving IT to achieve strategic goals. It has both logical and technical components. Logical components include mission, functional and information requirements, system configurations, and information flows. Technical components include IT standards and rules that will be used to implement the logical architecture. www.ichnet.org/glossary.htm acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of all types of information using computer technology and telecommunication systems www.aslib.co.uk/info/glossary.html Computer hardware and software; voice, data, network, satellite and other telecommunications technologies; and multimedia and application development tools. These technologies are used for the input, storage, processing, and communication of information. www.ncate.org/search/glossary.htm Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information. The term information technology includes computers, ancillary equipment, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources. www.cio.noaa.gov/itmanagement/508_Glossary.html Modern high- throughput technologies are providing vast amounts of sequence, expression, and functional data for genes and proteins. One of the most difficult challenges is turning this enormous pool of information into useful scientific insight and novel therapeutic products. Faster discovery of more effective drugs is plausible with the integration of biological, chemical, and clinical information. Sophisticated high- performance information technology (IT) solution architectures- infrastructures and applications- are needed to collect, store, analyze, manage, and share the enormous amount of data that is being created. Dr. Srini Chari, IBM Corp. " An Information Technology Solution Architecture and Framework for Life Sciences" Genome Tri- Conference: Human Genome Discovery Feb. 25- 27, 2002 Santa Clara CA www.genomicglossaries.com/content/computers.asp The hardware and software that processes information, regardless of the technology involved, whether computers, telecommunications, or others. www.ciao.gov/ciao_document_library/glossary/I.htm computer communications, networks, and information systems that enable exchanges of digital objects. Technologie de l'information www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs-scf/science/prodserv/kmglossary_e.html The technology included in hardware and software used for information, regardless of the technology involved, whether computers, communications, micro graphics, or others. www.opengroup.org/togaf/p4/glossary/glossary.htm The use of modern technology to handle information - it basically means using a computer to do stuff. www.soton.ac.uk/~engenvir/glossary.html General term used to describe technologies that help produce, manipulate, store, communicate, or disseminate information. iet.ucdavis.edu/glossary/ Includes both hardware and software. Use this term when the use of information technology is the underlying driver of the "interesting" feature or of the organization's profitability or productivity. This term can include computer modeling, simulation, innovative uses of A.I., automated knowledge discovery, data mining, data warehousing. (Technology) ccs.mit.edu/21c/iokey.html is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). A convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word, IT is the technology that is driving what has often been called "the information revolution." IT includes matters concerned with furthering computer science and technology, design, development, installation, and implementation of information systems and applications. www.beta-rubicon.com/Definitions.htm Also often called ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and C and IT (Communication and Information Technologies). The broad subject concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information, on databases or in libraries, especially within large organisations. www.ltsnhsap.kcl.ac.uk/site/resources/glossarykeywords.htm IT encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (e.g. business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures and multimedia presentations). www.iib.qld.gov.au/itcareers/talk.asp The relation of technology, or automation, to Information Management www.ch.doe.gov/programs/iap/glossary.html Information Technology (sometimes called IT) is a term that covers all forms of technology used to create, store, transmit, interpret, and manipulate information in its various formats. www.tecc.com.au/tecc/guide/glossary.asp The broad subject concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information, especially within a large organization or company. Because computers are central to information management, computer departments within companies and universities are often called IT departments. Some companies refer to this department as IS (Information Services) or MIS (Management Information Services). Many companies are discovering that it is more cost-effective to outsource these departments. www.intellicominc.com/Glossary.htm the hardware and software operated by a Federal agency or by a contractor of a Federal agency or other organization that processes information on behalf of the Federal Government to accomplish a Federal function (OMB Circular A-130). www.gils.net/gilsappb.html Electronic equipment that stores, sends, retrieves, or manages information. It includes computers, networks, electronic databases, CD-ROMs, laserdiscs, video cameras, tape-recorders, and fax machines. www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/it1112/apf.htm Term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and manipulate information in its various forms (business data, voice input, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms including those not yet conceived). The term is often used for encompassing both telephony and computer technology together. Information Technology is driving what has often been called "the information revolution." mts.admin.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/admin/techplan/techpl16.html (Technologie de l'information) - Information technology refers to the scientific, technological and engineering disciplines as well as to the management technologies used in information handling, communication and processing, their applications and associated software and equipment and their interaction. www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/dcgpubs/tbm_122/ABKGLOS-PR_e.asp The wide range of electronic devices and tools used to acquire, record, store, transfer, or transform data or information. www.healthadvantage-hmo.com/customer_service/terms.asp The application of science to the processing of data according to programmed instructions in order to derive results. In the widest sense, IT includes all information and all technology; in a much narrower sense, telecommunications technology is excluded - or for some particular reason needs to be emphasised. See also Information and Communications Technology. www.itilpeople.com/Glossary/Glossary_i.htm A term used to refer collectively to all forms of computer related technology. www.bitdaemons.com/glossary.html Computer and communications hardware and software used to automate and augment clerical, administrative, and management tasks in organizations. www.christlinks.com/glossary2.html