ICT and Empowerment Technologies

Flashcards covering the fundamentals of Empowerment Technologies, the history of ICT in the Philippines, the evolution of the World Wide Web, and technological convergence.

Empowerment

Giving someone the ability, confidence, or power to do something, and helping people become stronger and more independent.

Technologies

Tools, systems, and devices that help solve problems and perform tasks more easily, including gadgets, apps, websites, and digital platforms.

Empowerment Technologies

The use of digital tools and platforms to communicate effectively, create content, learn new skills, share ideas, and solve real-world problems.

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

An umbrella term referring to communication hardware or software that allows the access, storage, transmission, and manipulation of information.

Computer Technology

A component of ICT focused on storing and processing information in digital form.

Communication Technology

A component of ICT focused on the transfer and dissemination of digital information.

Information

Refers to knowledge within the context of ICT integration.

Technology (Integration Definition)

The use of computers and communication; the integration of computing, networking, and information processing technologies and their applications.

Local Area Networks (LAN)

A type of network included in ICT that connects computers within a limited area.

Wide Area Networks (WAN)

A type of network included in ICT that covers a broad area, such as a country or the entire world.

Efficiency

A characteristic of ICT defined by being faster, having less paperwork, fewer steps, and lower costs.

Effectiveness

A characteristic of ICT defined by being more interactive, personalized, customized, and having fewer errors.

Innovation

A characteristic of ICT involving new technologies and new products.

American-owned PLDT ($1928$)

Incorporated and given the franchise to establish and operate telephone services in the Philippines, acquiring small provincial companies to speed up the rollout.

Ramon Cojuangco ($1968$)

The individual who bought PLDT, making it a Filipino-controlled corporation.

Philnet (now PHNET)

A project born in $1993$ with the support of the Department of Science and Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation, marking the birth of the Philippine Internet.

Benjie Tan

An employee of ComNet who established the Philippines' first connection to the Internet at a PLDT network center in Makati City on March $29$, $1994$.

Convergent Technologies

When multiple different devices combine into a single gadget because of technological advancement.

Social Media

Software, applications, or platforms that allow users to communicate in online social communities or networks.

Mobile Technologies

Devices that are easily carried and allow fast communication, which have evolved to become smaller and more compact over time.

World Wide Web (WWW)

A system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet, representing the software aspect and protocols like HTTP.

Internet

The actual interconnection of computers and other networks, relating to infrastructures and computer network connections.

Tim Berners-Lee

A British scientist who invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN on March $12$, $1989$.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

The system or procedures that enable the transfer of information in internet web services, applications, and platforms; used to load webpages via hypertext links.

Web $1.0$

The first implementation of the web ($1989$-$2005$) considered "read-only" web consisting of static pages and content delivery with very little interaction.

Web $2.0$

The second generation of the web, coined by Tim O'Reilly and defined by Dale Dougherty in $2004$ as "read-write" web, facilitating participatory and collaborative practices.

Web $3.0$ (Semantic Web)

The third generation of the web, coined by John Markoff in $2006$; defined as the "executable web" that uses AI and machine learning to provide information in a human-like way.

Web $3.0$ Challenges

Issues including Vastness, Vagueness, Inconsistency (logical contradictions), and Deceit (intentional misleading).

Web $4.0$

Considered an Ultra-Intelligent Electronic Agent, symbiotic web, or Ubiquitous Web; it will be a read-write concurrency web parallel to the human brain.

WebOS

A middleware predicted for Web $4.0$ that will function like an operating system, implying a massive web of highly intelligent interactions.