3rd entry
ICT v.s. social community
According to the excellent pace of new technology, ICT has shown its great impact on human society and the social community. In the social community, ICT not only used for personal usage such as sending email or paying the electronic bill but also used by corporation and even by the government. Below are some examples on how ICT used globally:
1) Communication: By using the internet, human beings could be able to contact with their relatives, peers, and business partners all over the world without limited by the geographical factor. Internet provides the high speed data to allow people to discuss, searching information, and complete transactions. There are numerous social networks such as Facebook, MSN, and Skype that allow people to interact with family members or old school mates and most of the time these devices give us an opportunity to minimize the distances between each other.
2) Transaction: Nowadays, people could pay their electronic or phone bill via internet. Unlike the past, we had to apply leave and go all the way to post office just to pay the bill; now we could pay it through internet. On top of that, we could request to send the e-bill to our email address instead of receiving paper letter from the particular department. This could reduce the waste of paper and decrease the green house effect that is harness to our Earth.
3) Tourism: We could now book the bus/airline ticket, hotel, renting a car, find a travel agency via internet. Furthermore, we could also find the information of the cities or countries we would like to visit such as attracting places to visit in the particular country, amazing food that we have to try or some scenery we could not miss. These make our travel more pleasant and more convenient.
4) Renting/buying a house: Searching information for houses via internet before going to the inspection could make people feel more convenience and confidence. People could search the site that containing pictures of the inner or outer side of the houses, buildings and the transportation that surrounded the area. We could then go for inspection for the houses we desire instead of inspect the houses one by one.
5) Library: Even the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have provided the public access to do the research, gaining more knowledge in order to help country to improved social and economic outcomes.
Trust in the use of ICT is built in public libraries with their clear internet usage policies, staff skills in training and technical support, and perception of being a 'safe' environment physically and virtually. At the organisational level there are physical and ICT resources, information resources, ICT expertise, recognised community services, and sustainability of people and technical resources.
The paragraph above clearly stated the environment on how the ICT built in public libraries and how the libraries provide the resources for the public.
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