This assignment is about ICT in society. It will show how ICT has impacted my local community in such places as local Schools, businesses, and government services.

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Unit 3.4

ICT in Society

This assignment is about ICT in society.  It will show how ICT has impacted my local community in such places as local Schools, businesses, and government services.  I live in Great Steeping, which is approximately 2 miles from civilisation and the nearest shop.  This shop will not be included in my assignment as the most technological this shop gets is that it has a bell above the door to show when someone enters.  As I do not have access to many services where I live I have to branch out further to Spilsby, which is approximately 4 miles away.  Spilsby is not a particularly large or technologically advanced town so I may have to extend my area to Boston, which is 20 miles from where I live.

I will set this assignment out beginning with a table showing the different services and how they use ICT.

Service:

Police Service

  • Database of all know offenders

This database affects my community in ways people cannot easily see, this is because it is not shown to affect people in their day-to-day life. The way in which this technology helps the police conduct their work is by having a database of criminal records they can easily find out about what criminals have already done by searching the database using their fingerprints that they may find if a criminal already has a criminal record.  This database is also often added to when a new criminal gets caught and his/her records are taken.

This form of information technology does not really affect the general public in their day to day life yet has a huge impact on it. If this technology wasn’t available then no more jobs would be available so it doesn’t have any major disadvantages.

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  • Walky Talkies

Walky talkies aid the Police force in such a massive way, not only whilst trying to contact them to go to a scene of crime but also whilst the crime is being committed, in car chases for example. They work by……… If this technology was not invented or used by the Police force then either crime would be much higher as no one would be able to contact the police men, or the amount of police men employed would be greatly increased to cover a larger distance where their naked eye would be the only ...

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