Information and communications technology

Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audiovisual systems, that enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

Those technologies transformed a widening array of work practices and the way people live and communicate. Associated technologies have increased efficiencies and have altered employment in transportation, engineering, manufacturing, health care and other services.