Definition of ICT and ICTD

ICT, which stands for Information and communication technology, is a set of different varieties of technological tools and resources within the field of communication to develop, broadcast, manage, and store information. The main technology tools are Internet, broadcast networks such as TV stations, and telephone networks. Without a doubt, ICTs have impacted the education worldwide by providing long distance education, powerful search tools to find enormous amount of educational information, and many others. In addition, academic disciples have been developed related to ICTs to improve these technologies and provide solutions and methods to control these technologies to have positive social, psychological, and economical impacts on societies. As a result technological solutions have been developed to the problems and issues facing in the developing countries to use the ICTs. These technological solutions are called ICTD or information and communication technological and development. More information about this topic is available at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communication_technologies