Communications technologies include the techniques, tools and methods used to facilitate communication. Information technologies include those used to create, record, modify and display the content being communicated.
Communications technologies include the techniques, tools and methods used to facilitate communication. Information technologies include those used to create, record, modify and display the content being communicated. Both were developed as separate technologies and industries until the 1970s when information technologies began to be applied to the telecommunication network. The term information and communications technologies (ICT) was adopted to indicate the convergence of these technologies and industries. ICT being developed and applied today are electronic computer-communications technologies used as part of, or in association with, modern telecommunication networks, although it is recognized that in a larger, historical sense, they would include language, gestures, dress, codes of behaviour and religious rituals, as well as artistic and cultural traditions
