What is meant by “electronic and information technology”?
Information Technology:
Information technology is the application of computer, telecommunication equipment for storing, processing, encrypting, and modifying of the data for the enterprise or any other business.It is the analysis or study of pattern, feasibility, process or structure to access information which is to be encoded. It involves application of the IT Support services in various field.
Electronics:
Electronics involves dealing with electrical circuits which involves active electric components like integrated circuits , signal processing etc.
A. The U.S. Access Board defined “electronic and information technology” to include “any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information.” It includes computer hardware, software, networks, and peripherals as well as many electronic and communications devices commonly used in offices.
The Access Board defined “electronic and information technology” consistent with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. That Act defines “information technology” to include “any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information.” It includes computer hardware, software, networks, and peripherals as well as many electronic and communications devices commonly used in offices.
The Access Board will set forth in its standards a definition of “electronic and information technology” consistent with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. That Act defines “information technology'” to include “any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information.” It includes computer hardware, software, networks, and peripherals as well as many electronic and communications devices commonly used in offices.
