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SCD1513
Technology & Information Systems
 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,
THE INTERNET & YOU
 

Chapter 1

•  Information technology (IT) is "the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications".

• An information system (IS) is any combination of information technology and people's activities using that technology to support operations, management, and decision-making. In a very broad sense, the term information system is frequently used to refer to the interaction between people, algorithmic, processes, data and technology.

Five Parts of an Information
System
People
Procedures
Software
Hardware
Data

 People

• Very important in any system
• Contact is direct or indirect
• Uses in business,entertainment,education and medicine

Procedures

 

other links that also talk about information system:

 

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

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287895/information-system