Taran Very good point... we must share a definition in order to communicate effectively... I snicker as I recall a story from a friend as he participated in planning meeting for an ICT award by a UN body... the person in charge of the project interrupted the meeting when someone was talking about a experience with community radio... saying loudly: "that is not ICT"...
makes me laugh each time I think of the situation... but then again... maybe I am weird... coming from the education side of ICT4D I see all educational technologies as ICT... from overhead projectors to marker boards... they are all technologies used to communicate and share information in a variety of forms... yet I also tend to think ICT must use electricity... nevertheless if you stick to a a definition of storing and retrieving information ---- electricity is not needed on a blackboard... --- so it all depends on the definition one uses... I did a quick search of definitions... sure seems no two are the same.... Tim _________________________________ John "Tim" Denny, Ph.D. Advisor- International Development, Education and ICT Executive Director, PC4peace http://www.pc4peace.org Advisory Board, Masters of Development Studies -RUPP International Journal of Multicultural Education, Electronic Green Journal http://www.avuedigitalservices.com/VR/drjtdenny Join Cambodia Joomla! Users group - http://groups.google.com/jugcam "The diligent farmer plants trees of which he himself will never see the fruit." Cicero (106-43 BCE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the interesting insights. Videos, TVs, radios and ICTs are > > enablers. > I am not nitpicking, but trying to understand how the phrase 'ICT' is > understood by others. To me, ICT includes video, television and radio > since they are all information and communication technologies. I am > curious if others see the same or if I am a minority. > > -- > Taran Rampersad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.knowprose.com > http://www.your2ndplace.com > http://www.opendepth.com > http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ > > "Criticize by Creating" - Michelangelo > "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - > Nikola Tesla > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in > the body of the message. > -- _ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
