Foundation Course: Information Technology_ UNIT -1

Foundation Courseon

Information Technology

Ankit RajpalAssistant ProfessorDept. of Computer ScienceDDUC

Information TechnologyObjective and Expected outcome

1. Role of IT in Education, Society, Business.2. Solve practical problems using computers.3. Hardware & Software competence.4. Document preparation & Presentation Competence.5. Effective, Secure & Legal use of internet use.6. Encourage hands-on projects mode of learning.7. Data base management.8. Correlate: real world application theoretical knowledge.9. Innovative use of IT.10. Ability to switchover to open source technology.

Information, information processing & Information Technology. Evolution of IT Role of IT in:

• Business and entrepreneurship, • Education, • Communication, • Entertainment, • Healthcare, • Agriculture

Government’s Particular Initiatives: • AADHAR, • E-Panchayat, • National Knowledge Network.

Information Technology (IT) & Society

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• Data: raw facts– Alphanumeric, image, audio, and video

• Information: collection of facts organized in such a way that they have additional value beyond the value of the facts themselves– Value of Information is directly linked to how it

helps decision makers achieve their organization’s goals and can be measured• in time required to make a decision• Increased profits to the company

Information Concepts: Data, Information, and Knowledge

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The Process of Transforming Data into Information

Data, Information, and Knowledge

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The Characteristics of Valuable Information

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The Characteristics of Valuable Information (Continued)

The Components of any Information System

What Is an Information System?

Evolution of IT HARDWARE

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) proposal of April 1943.

June 30, 1945: John Von Neumann published the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), the first documented discussion of the stored program concept and the blueprint for computer architecture to this day.

May 22, 1973: Bob Metcalfe “memo inventing Ethernet” at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC).

March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee circulated “Information management: A proposal” at CERN in which he outlined a global hypertext system. CERN made the World Wide Web available to the world free of charge in April 1993.

Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Dell, Apple, IBM, SAP, Yahoo, Amazon.

More………

Evolution of IT HARDWARE

• Business and entrepreneurship: e-commerce, buying and selling over internet, electronic fund transfer, smart cards, ERP

• Education: A tool for communication, learning through visualization (e-learning), problem-solving, training, virtual classroom, research, tools for Physically Handicapped (PH)

• Communication: Mobile phones, email, chatting, webcast, Skype.

• Entertainment: Movies, games, • Healthcare: Diagnosis, Medical consultancy, surgery• Agriculture: Weather forecasting, information dissemination

Role of IT in the field of:

• Improving transport communication

• Easy and cost effective telecommunication

• Speedy and transparent implementation of government’s directives and policies

• Connecting educational institutions

IT’s contribution in India’s development

Government’s Particular IT Initiatives:

NKN project is aimed at establishing a strong and robust internal Indian network with a high speed data communication network which is capable of providing secure and reliable connectivity, bring together all the stakeholders from sciences, technology, higher education, healthcare, agriculture and governance to a common platform.

National Knowledge Network

• Study a government website (delhi.gov.in) lookout for e-facilities• Study a bank’s website (www.sbi.co.in) lookout

for e-facilities• Visit a nearby Panchayat and update them about

IT initiatives• Prepare a document or presentation on change

made by use of IT your society/locality

PROJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS UNIT

Information TechnologyProjects/Activities Guidelines

1. Real life & practical problems2. Inter-disciplinary3. Connected to challenges faced by the nation4. Hands-on, Experimentation5. Novel applications of IT 6. Development of new tools7. Extending IT applications to new domains8. IT application for enabling the poor9. IT applications in Infrastructure & Governance

Information TechnologyProjects/Activities challenges, FAQs

1. Title2. Objective3. Methodology4. Results/Conclusions/Discussion5. Future6. Number of hours