ABDULLAHI SHUAIBU'S JOURNALS ON SOCIOLOGY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES.

Information and Knowledge in the IT Age Consider missing the class but attending the video lecture later! Working on your laptop in the library or in a coffee shop, according to your convenience, or discussing your course online with your professor online, without physically attending the lecture in the classroom. All these were merely a dream about a decade ago, but now it has become a possibility and a complete reality! IT has changed the world in a way that the information is communicated. "As educators, we have to take account of the fact of the information age and participate in it," says Jack Lightstone, an educationist. The facilities and infrastructure of the Information Technology will expand in the next 5 years. The classrooms may be upgraded with wireless IT capabilities for learning and teaching purposes. New faculty development programs will provide professors with expertise on the effective use of IT in teaching. In man...

A Brief Overview of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL, was created by the British government in the 1980's in an attempt to create a standard for the efficient and effective utilization of its several IT resources. The British government, with the help of IT professionals who applied their experience and expertise, developed and published a series of best-practice books. Each one of these books targeted a different IT process. ITIL is now an industry of organizations, consulting services and publications. ITIL is still evolving, and its 44-volume set has now been combined into eight books. As dependency on IT services grew in the 1980's, the British government established a set of propositions. It acknowledged that, in the absence of standard procedures, government and private agencies were developing their own IT management policies. Originally, the IT Infrastructure Library was a...

Information Technology Management, A Brief Information technology is an engineering discipline. It is directly linked with computers and telecommunication usage for the retrieval of important data, its transmission and for storing purpose. Management in IT is a branch wherein all the technological resources of any firm are managed according to its priorities and needs. The resources include the entire stall hired to manage and maintain tangible resources like networks, software, computer hardware, data and data centre facilities. Within a company, the management of these responsibilities is directly linked with much other basic functionality like staffing, organizing and controlling, and budgeting. Other than these, there are many other aspects quite unique to technology software designing, change management, technical support, network planning and much more. There is a visible difference between management information system and management technology inf...

Hands-On ICT Continuity Management How ICT continuity planning can improve your resilience The potential for large scale absenteeism resulting from the so-called 'swine' flu pandemic has led many businesses to carry out extensive pandemic planning to ensure that customer facing and revenue generating services can be maintained with reduced staff numbers. However, equally important to maintaining almost every organisation's core business processes are the ICT services which underpin them. Yet, it is easy to forget that ICT services are dependent on the human touch to keep operating at the desired levels. It is imperative, when planning for staff absence, that an organisation factors in the level of human interaction required to operate and maintain its ICT services. This article examines common interactive tasks such as day to day operations, backup and recovery processing and break/fix activities, and the impact that a reduction in...

Differences Between V2 And V3 Of The ITIL Library ITIL training is widely popular certification training in the IT industry at the moment. Since IT is something that all businesses use nowadays, it is important to have certain frameworks which can help control quality and service standards in the industry. This is what the aim of this certification is, and it has become very important over the years. There are different versions of ITIL, and version 3 launched recently includes many new things making it different from version 2. The version 3 of ITIL is aimed towards a Life Cycle approach towards IT. In the second version, more stress was laid on the IT support for businesses in the industry. In the latest version, we see a more service oriented focus, and how businesses can aim to provide high quality services to their customers. This is the reason why some books and material was changed so that service modules could be included. One of the m...

Planning the Ideal School Library "When you walk into this learning resource centre, what immediately strikes you is the stimulating, well maintained and eye catching environment. Its spacious and modern layout, with room for 180 students, is the result of 3 previous teaching rooms being recreated into student working areas. The main learning resource centre has been transformed over time to provide specialist areas for sixth form work, careers work, independent work and ICT research..." This is a key testimonial featured in the Ofsted report: Good School Libraries - Making a Difference to learning. The report highlights how critical the library is within the education environment, particularly as a resource for inspiration and learning development. Ofsted's report continues by emphasizing the value of first class design of the library as being an essential requirement of the creation of this space. Any planning process n...

Using ICT As a Form of Classroom Technology The use of ICT as a form of classroom technology is of advantage to people of all ages starting from elementary school to colleges. The reason why it is important for teachers to use ICT in the classroom is that it grabs the interest of children for they have access to many types of interesting technology and they therefore need to have classes that interest them too. They can improve their knowledge and have fun at the same time by using various forms of ICT equipment. This equipment also provides students with a variety of ways to learn. The use of ICT in schools has a positive effect on students for it makes them conversant with technology. This has the advantage of making it possible for them to utilize technology in beneficial ways for the rest of their lives. For example, they can learn how to communicate effectively in writing and speaking by the use of computers and audio equipment such as microphones. T...