For this Unit I have had to prepare a report on the impact of ICT in society. In order to do this I had to prepare a report on the impact of ICT in the work place. The following represents my findings and comments.

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GNVQ ICT – UNIT 12

IMPACT OF ICT ON SOCIETY

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Tom Bill

INTRODUCTION

For this Unit I have had to prepare a report on the impact of ICT in society. In order to do this I had to prepare a report on the impact of ICT in the work place. The following represents my findings and comments.

THE IMPACT OF ICT IN SOCIETY

Society has moved over years from an Agrarian society, through an Industrialised society to an Information society. Society has become better informed. Almost every job now requires you to be computer literate. ICT is a growth industry and is developing new and powerful technologies everyday. It is such a powerful tool that no business can afford to ignore it. It is now becoming a compulsive part of education too.

The “Dot Com” millionaire is becoming more and more common, and whole businesses can be located completely in cyber space.

THE IMPACT OF ICT ON WORKING PRACTICES

In the area I researched I found that in the work place even a process such has writing a letter has changed. For instance instead of getting out a pen and paper to perform this task, we now log on to our computer. The old process was time consuming we had to write it, draft it, check it, stamp it, and take it down the post office to send it. Now we just word process it and then gets it automatically spell and grammar checked and then we send it by e-mail. This letter could then be received read and replied to by the recipient in minutes without any one leaving the office. This is much more efficient and saves big companies millions of pounds.

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ICT has had an impact on locations and patterns of work including:

  • Changes in places of work

People can now work from home, logging on to their work server through the phone lines. Using software like “dameware” people can remotely use another computer just as easy as using their own.

  • Changes in working hours.

As more and more people are setting up their own Internet business they have more flexible hours. The Internet is a 24hr market place so you can basically work when you want.

  • Work skills required

ICT work skills are now ...

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