The use of ICT on Languages 2

The Role of the Information and Communications Technology Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity

 A number of factor distinguish the ICT sector in its potential to expand economic opportunity. First, its products and services enable individuals, firms, governments, and other players to expand their economic opportunities as well as create them for others.

ICT companies know well this dynamic isn’t automatic, but rather depend on a wide range of other factors and players. This interdependence has led them to take network or ecosystem strategies which often create large numbers of business opportunities for others, underlying these ecosystem strategies are a fundamental collaborative capability and culture.

 

The role of ICT Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity

The Information and Communication Technology sector has been a pioneer and a powerful catalyst in addressing the needs and interests of low-income communities in developing countries.In the 1980s, “universal access” was a goal, but not the reality of the legacy PTTs (post, telephone and telegraph services). Today, the sector includes hardware, software, the Internet, telephony and content, application and support service, provided by entities ranging from corporate giants to garage entrepreneurs.ICT:* Reduce transaction costs and thereby improve productivity* Offer immediate connectivity- voice, data, visual- improving efficiency, transparency and accuracy* Substitute for other, more expensive means of communicating and transacting, such as physical travel.* Increase choice in the market place and provide access to otherwise unavailable goods and services.* Widen the geographic scope of potential markets, and channel knowledge and information of all kinds. 
ICTs require clean and consistent power, a robust, accessible and affordable connectivity network, technical literacy, skilled users and support systems, functional markets, and supportive regulatory and policy frameworks.
ICTs among low-income consumers and households will continue to grow:1. Technological capacity and capabilities continue to expand, and costs continue to fall.2. ICTs become cheaper and more powerful
3. Economic opportunity expands.

 

An Effective use of ICT for Education and Learning by Drawing on Worldwide Knowledge, Research, and Experience: ICT as a Change Agent for Education

ICTs have become within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society.

Computers and their application play a significant role in modern information management, other technologies and/or systems also comprise of the phenomenon that is commonly regarded as ICTs.The field of education has been affected by ICTs, which have undoubtedly affected teaching, learning, and research.Initially computers were used to teach computer programming but the development of the microprocessor in the early 1970s saw the introduction of affordable microcomputers into schools at a rapid rate. 

ICT enhancing teaching and learning process 

According to Zhao and Cziko (2001) three conditions are necessary for teachers to introduce ICT into their classrooms:

teachers should believe in the effectiveness of technology, 

teachers should believe that the use of technology will not cause any disturbances. 

teachers should believe that they have control over technology.

ICT enhancing the quality and accessibility of education

One of the most vital contributions of ICT in the field of education is- Easy Access to Learning. With the help of ICT, students can now browse through e-books, sample examination papers, previous year papers etc. and can also have an easy access to resource persons, mentors, experts, researchers, professionals, and peers-all over the world.

The Role of the Information and Communicatios Technology and translation competende

It is something that distinguishes a bilingual person from a professional translator. The competence needed to translate has also evolved due to different factors, mainly technological factors. In order to be a competent translator it is necessary to be computer literate and to keep one’s information technologies skills updated. Competence is the combination of skills, attitudes and behavior  that leads to an individual being able to perform a certain task to a given level. TRANSLATION COMPETENCE MODELThe bilingual sub-competence consists of the underlying systems of knowledge and skills that are needed for linguistic communication to take place in two languages. The extra-linguistic sub-competence is made up of encyclopedic, thematic and bicultural knowledge. The translation knowledge sub-competence is knowledge of the principlesguiding translation, such as processes, methods, procedures, and so forth. GENERAL ICTS FOR TRANSLATORS. The Internet. One of the most important tools offered by the Internet arethe search and location information engines. They allow to access in a few seconds to an enormous quantity of interrelated information. Further, the usefulness of these tools in our work as medical translator will be explained. The use of corpus linguistics. It is classified in two types:  1. The monolingual corpora (for example Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual) of the Royal   Spanish Academy.  2. Bilingual corpora, it is divided in parallel corpus and comparable corpus. Concordance generator programs. They can find all the times that a certain term appears in a text or in several texts written in electronic format.