Background Of The Study

 ICT History

Information technology has been around for a long, long time. Basically as long as people have
been around, because there were always ways of communicating through technology.This thing is
defines as Information Technology, consists of study, design, advance development, accomplishment,
support or administration of computer foundation information system, mostly software application
and computer hardware. Information technology works with the use of electronic computers and
computer software to renovate, defend, development, and broadcast and other information and
technology has to cover many features of computing this thing is more familiar than ever before. IT
professionals perform different types of responsibilities that range from installing applications to
designing complex computer networks and also they are in data management, networking, database,
software design, computer hardware, management and administration of whole system.The term
"information technology" evolved in the 1970s it is combined word of computer and communications
or "InfoTech". As the day goes by Information Technology illustrates any technology which helps to
manufacture, manipulate, accumulate, communicate or broadcast information and then recently it has
become popular to broaden the term to explicitly include the field of electronic communication so
that people tend to use the abbreviation ICT (Information and Communications Technology).

 Importance of ICT in economy

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has an important role in the world since we
are now in the information age era we are living in a constantly evolving digital world. ICT developt
our economy pillars to gain national competitive advantage(other importance of ict in economy). It can
improve the quality of human life because it can be used as a learning and education media, the mass
communication media in promoting and campaigning practical and important issues, such as the
health and social area. It provides wider knowledge and can help in gaining and accessing
information.Digital and networking has change our economy concept to the economy with no
boundary in time this is because of ICT. It brings a lot of advantages for economic development
enabling millions of transactions to happen in an easy and fast way.

 Tech4Ed (what is tech4ed?)(where did it come originated?)

 Tech4edprogram
 Tech4ed in phillipines (operating centers in luzon)kg