Definitions of Information technology (IT)
It is a branch of engineering dealing with the use of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data. The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones.
Information is s vital resource in development activities of any society. All our economic and social progress depends very significantly in the transfer of commercial, scientific and technical information. People in different situations require information on a subject in different forms and with different emphasis.
Information is obtained through processing of data. The storage, retrieval and processing of data become the essential resource for all economic and social exchanges. Data is the recording of any meaningful event in any understandable form. The methods used to collect and store the data, process the data into information and communicate the information all over the world is Information Technology.