Monday, September 10, 2012

Chapter 1 Blog Post - Section 01 (CLICK ON COMMENTS TO RESPOND AND BE SURE TO PUBLISH COMMENT)

What is an information system and what activities does it perform? Explain the difference between data and information and also between information system literacy and computer literacy. Explain how the Internet and WWW are related to the other technology components of information systems.

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  1. * Information system defined technically as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization.

    * Information system helps managers and workers analyze problems, visualize complex subjects, abd create products new products.

    Explain between Information and data

    1- Information we mean date that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings

    2- Data, in contrast, are streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use

    Explain the Information system literacy and Computer literacy

    1-Information system literacy we refer to this broader understanding of information system, which encompasses an understanding of the management and organization dimensions of systems as well as the technical dimensions of systems as well as the technical dimensions of system

    2- Computer literacy, in contrast, focuses primarily on knowledge of information technology

    Explain how the Internet and WWW

    1- The internet the world's largest and most widely used network, and a network links two or more computers to share data or resources.

    2- WWW is World Wide Web is a service provided by internet that uses universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a page format on the internet . All of these technologies, along with the people required to run and manage them, represent resources that can be shared throughout the orgnization and constitute the firm's information technology (IT) infrastructure

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