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>> in the hopes of informing the public as well as
techies/specialists who may only associate ICTs with the Internet and computers
(snip) Elizabeth we are certainly in agreement on the nature of ICT’s however
in my experience it is more the masses, the media, politicians, academics of non-technical
disciplines and other non technical people who tend to associate ICT’s
solely with computers and the Internet. Most technically trained people are
well aware of the silent ‘&’ in ICT’s as well as the
grammatical inappropriateness of adding ‘s’ to an already inflected
plural noun (technology) - yet we use the acronym nonetheless. The exceptions in
technical professions are usually promoters of advanced ICT who tend to
discount any benefits of older yet more adaptable and economical technology (the
‘essential nature’ of broadband deployment as a case in point). Your comments certainly beg a question… how appropriate is this
acronym of ICT’s? – We are not dealing with Information
Communications Technologies (ICT’s), we are dealing with Information And
Communications Technology (I&CT). Perhaps there would be less confusion
about the true nature of I&CT were we to promote the use of an accurate
descriptor. (I think it is acceptable to use ‘&’ instead of
‘A‘ in this day and age however acknowledge that some may prefer
the acronym IACT as in RADAR where the word ‘And’ warrants an
‘A’ to be included). Rgds, Don |
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