What you need to do
Write a report into how you, your family and large organisations
use ict in their daily lives thenc omment on people in this country and
in other countries,
who can’t or won’t use these types of communication. Then talk
about the reasons why they can’t or won’t. Finally what effects
does the lack of using these technologies have on these people?
(7 marks available)
Audio resources
if you don't like reading go to the podcast page look under unit 3. Or if you have itunes or an iphone put "harrogate grammar school" in to itunes
Technologies and areas you should cover;
You, friends and family
Mobile phone/ Mobile devices - text - mms video calling,
calendar sync, mobile apps, google maps
Internet - Shopping, email, Social networks, Information
research (wikipedia, google etc) Banking, bills credit cards, Instant messaging,
VOIP, gaming. calendar sharing, twitter, podcasting. Multiplayer gaming,
Second Life.
TV Radio and News - Satellite and Digital TV DAB radio internet radio podcasts
Iplayer , Interactivity through red button.
Organisations
Advertising, pop up ads, search engine click through,
viral emails and you tube videos.,
Financial Billing, invoices, Payroll. All of these
three can now be subcontracted via the internet.
Communication
email,
Blackberry, Video conferencing, the rise of homeworking via
Virtual private Networks (VPN's).
Large databases, health service database, DVLA Electoral
Role, passports
Customer profiling
(loyalty cards and targeted marketing). Government and business difficulties
implementing these systems (massive projects, elctorate resistance, smarter
consumers, fear of identitiy theft).
Digital Mapping and GPS used to track buses, dustcarts and
delivery vans. Used to look at flood risk and model the effects of road building
on traffic.
Digital divide
Personal Divide - Individual poverty prevents access.
Individual Divide - Disability or age prevents access (can't) too
stubborn, scared or "too old to change"to use internet (won't)
Geographic Divide -LDC country with poor infrastructure.
e.g. much of Africa
Political Divide- Governments committed to censorship or
repression of activism radicalism and dissent. e.g China or Burma. Tibet
Effects of Digital divide
Education - A
poorer or more difficult education only accessed from books which may be
out of date.
Repression - More
likley to have limited access to free media in
a country that has a Political Divide.
Wealth - Less likely to have access to best price products
if you can't shop online, less choice.
Health - Less likley to get information about healthy diet
and living ,may not know about risk of Aids or smoking.
Isolation -Older non web savvy generation may lose touch with modern society and become isolated.