Much is said today about the TIC, of how they have changed the world of communications, of how useful they are, of all their fields of application, but What are ICT really?
The Information technology and Communication, known by its acronym TIC, encompass all the means and elements that help to transmit the information, speeding up communication, and making a certain news reach a large number of recipients in the least possible time. With the term Information and Communication Technologies, we refer to the computing, as a means of transmitting information, networks, above all, currently Internet, such as the channel through which the information is disseminated, and telecommunications.
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Information Technology has changed a lot in the last hundred years, since the first phones to companies and homes, so that in a much shorter time important information could be given, minimizing the time it takes to spread the news. With the later arrival of the radio and the TV, the possibilities of disseminating information multiplied, it was no longer person-person communication, through the telephone; but now, a single person could give a news, and through a medium, it reached many more people at the same time.
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However, these two forms of communication had a lack, the first was reciprocal, that is, the interlocutors could share and contrast the News, but the diffusion was later; while radio and television reached a wider audience, but there was no possibility of communication both sides.
It was not until the mid-80s, when the internet would unite these concepts, to create a form of fast, direct communication in both addresses, in little more than thirty years, the Internet has become the favorite form of communication and the first idea that crosses the mind of the say ICT.
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For the company, the Internet has opened a world of possibilities: faster and more complete communication with dealers, customers,…; sales possibilities all over the world without the need for physical presence of the company in the places where it is sold; advertising through social networks; or the help they suppose when managing a company, which we already talked about in ICT in Administration.
