ATTRIBUTES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 Information technology [IT] and computers have enormous influence on all segments of our life. All our workplaces and the living surroundings are being mechanized or rather automated. The benefit of information technology is that, it empowers people to do what they want to do, let’s people to be creative, make people to be productive and allow people to learn things which they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. Technology, in all its forms, has had an impact on practically one and all. Information technology, with its complication and remarkable alteration, has debatably had the most philosophical force on community. Information is any type of pattern that influences the formation or transformation of other patterns. Information technology makes it practicable for all sorts of information to be stored, accessed and transmitted electronically, and with no orientation to customary print on paper media.

Here we will explore IT and its attributes. We start with the definitions of the data, information, knowledge and wisdom. Later we will study the types of information, quality of information, value of information, various forms of storing the information and effectiveness parameters of the information.

Computers are often called data processing machines or information processing machines. People understand and accept the fact that computers are machines designed for the input, storage, processing, and output of data and information.

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” [Bill Gates]. According to Russell Ackoff, a systems theorist and professor of organizational change, the content of the human mind can be classified into five categories:

  • · Data: symbols
  • · Information: data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to "who", “what”, “where”, and “when” questions
  • · Knowledge: application of data and information; answers "how" questions
  • · Understanding: appreciation of "why" 
  • · Wisdom: evaluated understanding.

Thus, IT is an enabler to enormous advances in human work in every field, which is essential to stay alive in the competitive world. Basically the use of IT at workplace and personal life, direct us and rather facilitate how to study information technology.

Here we have studied about the data, information, knowledge and wisdom. We have seen the differences between them. In the later sections we have studied the types of information, quality of information, value of information, various forms of storing information, effectiveness parameters and types of Information Systems.

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