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Information and communications technology or information and communication technology, usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers, middleware as well as necessary software, storage, and audio–visual systems, which enable users to create, access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. In other words, ICT consists of IT as well as telecommunication, broadcast media, all types of audio and video processing, and transmission and network-based control and monitoring functions. The expression was first used in 1997 in a report by Dennis Stevenson to the UK government and promoted by the new National Curriculum documents for the UK in 2000.
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Wired magazine’s, Encyclopedia of the New Economy http://hotwired.wired.com/special/ene/
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According to the Online Oxford Dictionary
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Digital Opportunities for All : Meeting the Challenge (http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/background/general/reports/26092001_dotforce.htm)
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See Willie Curie’s report on debates on financing at WSIS—the role of civil society, and the relevant text in the outcome documents stressing the role of public finance at http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=31483
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See the Global Information Technology Report 2012
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Tolica, E.K., Sevrani, K., Gorica, K. (2015). Information Society and the Efforts for an ICT Strategy. In: Information Society Development through ICT Market Strategies. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17196-8_1
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