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THE WAYS IN WHICH IT IS USED

MAHEEN HANIF

ICT systems can be used in a number of environments:


Shops Factories Ships Farming Offices Police libraries Hospitals

THE IMPORTANCE OF ICT SYSTEMS:


By Using ICT Systems We Are :
1. More productive-can produce more in the

same time at reduced cost. 2. Able to deal with vast amount of information and process it quickly.

THERE ARE THREEE MAIN TYPES OF ICT SYSTEMS:


Information System: manages data and information. II. Control System: mainly controls machines. III. Communication system: the output of these ICT system is the successful transport of data from one place to another.
I.

ICT SYSTEMS DIAGRAM:


A system is an assembly of parts that

together make a whole. Various devices are used for input, processing, output, and communication.

PLACES WHERE ICT IS USED:


1. SCHOOLS: schools were a low technology places everything was paper based and equipments were mainly black board and chalk. But with computers and electronic technology schools have become major users of ICT.

Problems With The Paper Based Exams:


They can be slow to mark by hand

The students writing might be hard to read.


Even though there is a proper marking scheme

but each examiner will mark slightly different from another Printing and storing the exam papers is costly and takes up a lot of space.

PLACES WHERE ICT IS USED:


technology, to handle this the police have made methods of crime detection.
2. POLICE: Criminals use the latest

finger prints: uses the patterns of ridges of our finger tips for identification which are then matched by the computers in minutes.

PLACES WHERE ICT IS USED:


3. HOSPITALS
ICT equipments in wards , laboratories is been used - large so they need communication equipments to keep in touch with everyone. There are many examples of how computers and ICT helps doctors.

CAT ( Computer aided tomography)

Some of the tools include:


MRI ( magnetic resonance imaging) X-RAY equipment ECG machines Ultra sound scanners

PLACES WHERE ICT IS USED:


4. LIBRARIES It held newspapers, magazines, and books. Before the invention of computer, libraries used a paper based system to keep track of the borrowed books

By replacing this traditional method with computer based system ,it has certain advantages:

Easy to store- entire books collection stored in

one database. Easy to generate reports such as overdue of any book.

PLACES

WHERE

ICT

IS USED:

5. SUPERMARKETS:
Previously in local stores paper record was done. But now, with mega supermarket chains keep track of stocks and sales on new computer systems. Like for example: a typical outlet have about 20,000 different items. Each with its own price and special deals. Like buy one get one free How is all this tracked?

Examples:
Barcodes
Loyalty cards Online shopping- internet Stock control Magnetic strip reader

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