ICT is for everyone....
What Is ICT Education and Why Is It Important?
Information
and Communications Technologies (ICT) education is basically
our society’s efforts to teach its current and emerging
citizens valuable knowledge and skills around computing and
communications devices, software that operates them,
applications that run on them and systems that are built with
them.
Today, everyone needs a basic
understanding of ICT and how to make productive use of it,
just to be good students, workers and citizens. Teaching
people how to be competent basic users of ICT technologies is
an important role of ICT education, so they will be successful
in their academic and work careers, and so they can
efficiently participate in modern technical society.
In virtually all modern businesses and industries, and in
modern society in general, ICT has key strategic roles. It is
strategically important to develop citizens and workers who
can competently and efficiently operate and add value in these
systems and environments.
- http://www.mpict.org/ict_education_defined_importance.html
In the coming years ICT competency/proficiency will come as a standard requirement for employment in any field regardless of rank. ICT is shaping our world.
