INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FCC 123 TOPIC 1

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY FCC 123 

TOPIC 1 : Data, Information and Information Management 

FIRST OF ALL, WE SHOULD KNOW SOME BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT COMPUTER AND COMPUTER GENERATIONS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DATA AND INFORMATION, THE PROBLEMS OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT.

 A COMPUTER IS A PROGRAMMABLE MACHINE THAT DOES WHAT WE INSTRUCTED IT TO DO. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE 4 BASIC OPERATIONS THAT A COMPUTER DOES: INPUT, PROCESSING, OUTPUT AND STORAGE AND MAYBE, COMMUNICATION.  

 MOREOVER, THERE ARE 5 GENERATIONS OF COMPUTERS: 1ST GENERATION-ENIAC (ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTERS) USED VACUUM TUBE. 2ND GENERATION OF COMPUTERS USED TRANSISTORS AND USED HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES(COBOL), 3RD GENERATION USED MICROCHIPS AND OS AND MONITOR. 4TH GENERATION  USES MICROCHIPS AND MORE HUMAN FRIENDLY. 5TH GENERATION COMPUTER IS THE COMPUTER WE ARE USING NOW AND IT IS BASED ON AI(ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) AND CAN BE USED BY VOICE AND TOUCH.

          THERE ARE 6 CATEGORIES OF COMPUTERS:

          1. EMBEDDED

          2. MOBILE COMPUTERS

          3. PERSONAL COMPUTERS

          4. MID-RANGE COMPUTERS

          5. MAINFRAME 

          6. SUPERCOMPUTERS 

          AND NOW IT'S TIME TO EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA AND INFORMATION. 

DATA IS A RAW MATERIAL LIKE NUMBERS, SYMBOLS AND PICTURES ETC. DATA CANNOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING WHEN IT IS IN THAT FORM. 

 INFORMATION IS THE PROCESSED DATA THAT CAN BE VERY USEFUL AND IMPORTANT WHEN MAKING RIGHT DECISIONS IN BUSINESS IT MANAGEMENT AND SO ON. IN ADDITION, AFTER PROCESSING INFORMATION BECOMES KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN INFORMATION AND IT HAS STRUCTURE, GROWTH AND SYSTEM. FURTHERMORE, INFORMATION CAN BE A CAPITAL RESOURCE BECAUSE COMPANIES LIKE MICROSOFT AND APPLE SPEND MILLIONS TO GET THE RIGHT INFORMATION.

DATA INTEGRITY INCLUDES ''GIGO'' (GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT) WHICH MEANS, INPUT AND OUTPUT OF DATA TO THE COMPUTER.

           THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY HAS TWO BASIC ELEMENTS:

           
1. REACH: IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING THE SOURCE, SHARING INFO AND SO ON. 

           
2. RICHNESS: IS THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF TE INFORMATION THAT IS SHARED. 

           
AND IT HAS 3 SUB ELEMENTS:

          
1. BANDWITH

          
2. CUSTOMIZATION

         
 3. INTERACTIVITY

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IS THE COLLECTION OF TERMS THAT ARE USED FOR MANAGING ANY KIND OF INFORMATION. IM INCLUDES THESE STEPS: CAPTURE, STORE, MANAGE, PRESERVE, DELIVER. AND IM INVOLVES PEOPLE, CONTENT, TECHNOLOGY AND INTERACTION. 

THERE ARE MANY PROBLEMS INVOLVED WITH IM FOR EXAMPLE, PROBLEMS OF SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE, ETC. 

         

  THE FIRST WEEK WAS VERY GOOD BECAUSE I COULD REVISE MY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION AND DATA. BEFORE, I TOOK COMPUTER AND INTERNET COURSE SO THE FIRST LECTURE HELPED ME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT IT.

         
IN CONCLUSION,  THIS WAS THE FIRST IT LECTURE I TOOK IN THIS SEMESTER AND I'VE LEARNT MORE THAN THAT AND I'M VERY INTERESTED IN THAT COURSE. SO GOODBYE FOR NOW AND I'LL POST AGAIN AFTER A WEEK. TAKE CARE AND SO GOODBYE!!!