Comments on: Is There A Better Phrase for “ICT”?

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By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:05:41 +0000

Thirty years from now, no one will think of "communication" as separate from information technology (many don't now). The right description is "Information Technology" (IT) with a possible elaboration of categories (e.g., communication, storage, computing, application software).

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:18:08 +0000

SINS and NOISE – nicely done.

By: Tony Casson

Tony Casson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:04:30 +0000

I hear you on this front. I have been working toward my MS in Telecommunications (strongly affiliated with Silicon Flatirons) part-time at CU for the last few years and have had a difficult time explaining why a telecommunications degree is important to my work in IT/Software/Communications/Internet. Telecommunications is indeed all of the above but it feels like a dated term, a point on which some of the professors have concurred and agreed that it might limit interest in the program. So your question is really how do we sum up our contemporary information era communications milieu concisely and poetically. One that comes to mind is Software, Information Networks and Systems although the resulting acronym is already copyrighted by a higher authority, I believe. The appropriate phrase to describe our time period in the technology business though might be the Networked Online Information Systems Era

By: Tony Casson

Tony Casson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:04:05 +0000

I hear you on this front. I have been working toward my MS in Telecommunications (strongly affiliated with Silicon Flatirons) part-time at CU for the last few years and have had a difficult time explaining why a telecommunications degree is important to my work in IT/Software/Communications/Internet. Telecommunications is indeed all of the above but it feels like a dated term, a point on which some of the professors have concurred and agreed that it might limit interest in the program. So your question is really how do we sum up our contemporary information era communications milieu concisely and poetically. One that comes to mind is Software, Information Networks and Systems although the resulting acronym is already copyrighted by a higher authority, I beleive. The appropriate phrase to describe our time period in the technology business though might be the Networked Online Information Systems Era

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By: Karl Katzke

Karl Katzke — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:08:48 +0000

Rather generically, we call the department that handles these items at my employer "Info Systems", since we consider communications circuits to be yet another "system".

By: Micah Schwalb

Micah Schwalb — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:26:59 +0000

Just call it "Wichita."

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:19:04 +0000

Ok – that made me laugh out loud!

By: rock mcqueen

rock mcqueen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:16:29 +0000

i always had a hard time with the acronym too until a friend that is a well-known entrepreneur turned angel investor coined "UPICT" pronounced you picked.

it stands for Unpatented Patentable Information Communication Technology.