Assignment #7 Posted by jealou* | at 8:53 PM

Identify at least three areas related to ICT and identify how these areas can improve our quality of life.

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State Of the Nation Address

After reading the SONA of our president here are the three areas related to ICT that I found:

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
"Sa telecommunications naman, inatasan ko ang Telecommunications Commission na kumilos na tungkol sa mga sumbong na dropped calls at mga nawawalang load sa cellphone. "

Telecommunication is used to transmit information electronically. One of the most important medium of telecommunication today is through cell phones using load. However, some telecommunication network steal load and dropped calls. I know some people think that cell phone load is not as important as education or crisis (so why would the President mention this?...) ...but still every Filipino uses cell phone load .We paid for the cell phone loads therefore it is only right that we get the value of our money.
So how can telecommunication improve our quality of life?
Telecommunication bridges our gap, through this we could get in touch to people in the fastest and efficient way possible.

ICT DEPARTMENT
"Kung noong nakaraan, lumakas ang electronics, today we are creating wealth by developing the BPO and tourism sectors as additional engines of growth. Electronics and other manufactured exports rise and fall in accordance with the state of the world economy. But BPO remains resilient. With earnings of $6 billion and employment of 600,000, the BPO phenomenon speaks eloquently of our competitiveness and productivity. Let us have a Department of ICT…"

Having a government sector intended for information and communications technology will help the country to be flexible with the latest evolution of information technology.

BPO also provides greater chance for more Filipino's to have work and generate more income.

AUTOMATED ELECTIONS
"As the process of fundamental political reform begins, let us address the highest exercise of democracy…voting!

In 2001, I said we would finance fully automated elections. We got it, thanks to Congress…."
I believe it should have been a long time that our country practice automated election. So it is really good to know that the government is taking step towards implementing automation.
Using automated machines for the elections, people will experience a fast and reliable election results.
Knowing that people has their 'highest exercise of democracy' done in a clean and reliable process, Filipino's will have more trust and unity in the government.

...good luck philippines ^^

“Some say that after this SONA, it will be all politics. Sorry, but there’s more work…”

-PGMA