ICT Education, Its Importance and its Different Dimensions

Author: Sonal Verma

ICT means Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and ICT education has become very important in recent years. ICT education is the basic mode of education for the society today - the present, old and the emerging generation to acquire valuable skills and knowledge related to computing and communications devices, software that is used to operate and implement them, to acquire knowledge on applications that run on the devices and systems that are built with them. ICT education is very essential in this digital world today, considering the fact that ICT is complex and changing quickly, creating a sense of confusion. Many organisations prefer employees with ICT educational background or would hire ICT Consulting Services provided by other agencies for smooth running of the Information and Communication Technology department. That is why the role of ICT Consultants has also become increasingly important these days.

Important dimensions to ICT education

What does ICT education covers, what are its dimensions which make it so popular today that companies are keen on having in-house ICT team or opt for ICT Outsourcing?

  • ICT Literacy: A basic understanding of ICT is required by everyone today to make productive use of it so that they can efficiently participate in modern technical society. ICT literacy is basically digital literacy and considering the fact that everything has become online or digital, an education on this domain becomes essential. In all modern businesses and industries, ICT competencies are expected of all employees and workers, regardless of the job profile and structure of the organisation. ICT digital literacy should be considered a basic skill to make people "digitally literate."
  • ICT Infrastructure: In today’s age, it has become also very essential to have knowledgeable and capable technical people to manage, implement, and maintain ICT equipment, computer and communications hardware, software and applications, mobile app development, online information sharing, communication, business processes making use of these systems and offshore software development services and so on.
  • Industry Uses of ICT: Being the emerging technology, ICT is used strategically in almost all businesses and industries and in effective ecommerce solution. Specialized systems of ICT have been developed. There are specialized legal and regulatory requirements, integrations with production and research equipment, quality control systems, software applications, security requirements which depend on specialized ICT systems.
  • ICT Research: ICT domain is something which needs to evolve and improve regularly. That is the reason there is the need of ICT consultants who have the knowledge on the science and technologies underlying ICT and who can research and work to further advance the fields and add value in the IT systems and environments.

To sum up: In modern society as a whole, in general, ICT has key strategic roles. Eperium India is a reputed organisation based in Noida, Delhi NCR providing ICT consulting and ecommerce consulting services for clients belonging to various industry domains.