Information technology, IT (also used by the more general term information and communication technologies (ICT) - a set of methods, manufacturing processes and software combined to collect, process, store and disseminate information in the interests of IT users.

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Information - any information or data that may be stored on a physical medium or displayed electronically.

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Information resource - a set of documents in information systems, ie books, articles, archives, databases, etc.

 

Information resource has a number of characteristic features, in particular, unlike other material resources, it is practically inexhaustible; With the development of society and the increase in the use of knowledge, the volume of information resource is increasing.

The concept of information resource is related to the concept of information technology.

 

Technology is a system of interrelated ways of processing materials and techniques for manufacturing products in the production process.

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Information technology - a purposeful organized set of information processes using computer facilities that provide high speed data processing, fast information search, data dispersion, access to information sources regardless of their location.

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Information technology refers to the processing of information on the basis of computer computing systems.

 

Nowadays, humanity is undergoing a scientific and technological revolution, the electronic basis of which is the material basis. On the basis of this technique there is a new kind of technology - information. These include processes where "source material" and "production" are information. It is clear that the information being processed is linked to certain material carriers, therefore, these processes also include substance processing and energy processing. But the latter is not essential for information technology. The main role here is played by information, not its medium. Both production and information technologies do not arise spontaneously, but as a result of the technologicalization of a social process, ie purposeful active influence of a person on a particular field of production and its transformation on the basis of machinery.