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OCR Cambridge National in ICT (Level 1/Level 2) Unit 2 Using ICT to create business solutions In many workplaces, ICT is used all the time, and replaces many manual tasks which would take much longer to do The use of ICT in everyday life has grown rapidly in the last 50 years ICT has changed the way we do business… Business Laptops, smartphones We don’tassociates need to bedon’t in even need to Internet Conference shopping calls and and Google and Wikipedia We don’t need to be We don’t need towriting refer We use a word just and keep tablets in touch make on the They keep in touch through the same building as Instead of hand be in the same building webcams online business make some are popular places present in the shop toto pay to an encyclopaedia processor and send telephone, business-on-the-go or whentothey atosee social networking our colleagues meet a letter as our computer to transactions take seconds travel unnecessary start research for goods or services find facts itwith by email reality each other at meetings them check our emails Email invented 1971 PCs First dial up available in internet the shops available 1977 1990 1977 First PC modem 1991 First webcam available Internet shopping launched 1995 Google launched 1998 1996 Hotmail launched Social networking emerged 2004 2001 Wikipedia launched 2007 Mobile internet access available Wherever you work, ICT will be used to support the work you do How is it used? Formatting data and completing complex calculations Providing communication systems Managing systems and Searching for information processes on both large and Storing information Presenting data in a variety small scales of ways In this unit you will learn how to… …analyse data to produce and share reports …search for information on the internet or an intranet …store data efficiently …learn how to select and use the appropriate software to handle this data and present information …search for, and store files effectively Thank you for using this OCR resource Other OCR resources are available at www.ocr.org.uk To give us feedback on, or ideas about, the OCR resources you have used e-mail [email protected]