education (ICT) The study of the technology used to handle information and aid communication. The phrase was coined by [?] Stevenson in his 1997 report to the UK government and promoted by the new National Curriculum documents for the UK in 2000. In addition to the subjects included in
Information Technology (IT), ICT emcompasses areas such as
telephony, broadcast media and all types of
audio and
video processing and transmission.
(https://rubble.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/stevenson/ICTUKIndex.html).
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