ICT

Refers to communications hardware or software that allows access, storage, and manipulation of information

Information and communications technology (ICT)

Physical and visible components

Hardware

Set of instructions, data or programs used to operate computers and execute specific tasks.

Software

What does BPO stand for?

Business process outsourcing

Multiple different devices are combine into a single gadget because of technological advancement

Convergent technologies

Platform that allows users to communicate in an online social communities

Social media

A website where people with the same come together to share information

Social network

A website that allows you to share and store internet bookmarks, articles, posts, blogs, images and others.

Bookmarking sites

A website that allows you to share and store multimedia files such as video, photos and music

Media sharing

Electronic devices or programs that seek to reach out to PWDs by providing the support that will increase or improve their functional capabilities through the use of technology

Assistive media

The (Static Web) ”Read only web” which means users can only read whatever online content creator has made. It cannot be manipulated by users.

Web 1.0

It can be called ”social web or interactive web”. Interact with a website, not just read it; communicate with other users of a website, or even of different websites.

Web 2.0

Users can classify and arrange information by adding tag or label Pound sign (#) is used in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networking sites.

Folksonomy

User can put content on their own web page like comment, evaluation, and etc.

User participation

What are the two types of features of Web 2.0?

Folksonomy and user participation

Also known as ”Semantic Web or Web of meaning”; search the web in a more intelligent way - the browser will retrieve information for us, and even offer suggestions we may not have thought about while searching for information

Web 3.0

A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done, an organized scheme or method.

Online system

A digital environment where people can communicate, share information, and collaborate.

Online platform

A software system that is designed to search for information on the www.

Search engine

A provider that transport information electronically

Communications service provider

Any system used to settle financial transactions through transfer of monetary value

Payment system

Designed to run a computer’s hardware and application programs.

System software

Computer software developed specifically to aid a user to perform any specific tasks

Application software

Or malicious software, a program or file designed to harm a computer, steal information, spy on users, or gain unauthorized access.

Malware

Attaches itself to a file or program and spreads when that infected file runs

Computer virus

Examples of Computer Virus

Melissa virus and ILOVEYOU virus

Malware that can copy itself and spread between computers without attaching to another file.

Worm

Is a computer worm that targets Microsoft Windows operating systems, first detected in November 2008

Conficker

Malware disguised as a legitimate or useful program

Trojan horse

Is first identified in 2007, it operates primarily as a banking Trojan to steal financial data and build large botnets.

Zeus

infiltrates a computer to grant an attacker complete & unauthorized control. (Spying at Surveillance

Dark comet

Malware that locks or encrypts files and demands payment to restore access.​

Ransomware

a malware that locks or encrypts a computer’s files and demands money (a ransom) to restore access.​

Ransom WannaCry

its goal is to acquire sensitive personal information like passwords and credit card details. ​

Phishing (scam)