SUMMARY OF INFORMATION INDUSTRIES

NAME: AHMADU, BELLO


REG NO: MIM/EDUC/0365/2009-2010

COURSE: LIBS 883 – ONLINE INFORMATION INDUSTRY



SUMMARY

The writer provides an over view of information technological transformations in the information industry and it effect to the world.

It was focus that Information industry are comprising the elements of computing; dealing with information storage and processing, office automation; task automation and information creation and display; and telecommunications. While the contemporary definition of information industry as worldwide revenues of information centered businesses. The information industry was organized based on information form such as Text, voice, image, audio/video and data. Business opportunity related to a particular type of information form. The text was mostly dominated by the publishing industry, the image by the photographic industry, the voice by telecommunications, audio/video by the entertainment industry and data by the computing industry. And in each of the Information Industries, it create, displayed, stored, processed and distribute (Transportation) are its basic function.



Information Industries has played and still playing an important role in the world development, but the writer observed some of the inefficiencies of Information Industries as follows: Significant waste of economic and ecological resources; inadequate matching of information content with the needs of the recipients; Severe time and place constraints on information assess and availability; Expensive physical infrastructures for information distribution. With the above comments the bellow way forwards were made: critical success factors; global orientation; managing geo-political dynamics; flexibility, speed and productivity; allowance and partnering; quality obsession; mass customization; breakthrough

Innovation; access to capital; investment in human capital and end-use-focus.



CRITIQUE



The massage of this paper is clear; already some of the writer’s points of view are not longer dreams. With the information technology Structures are merging together. Structures are being coming more multimedia. For example’ some handsets perform all functions of other information technologies do, with the help of its service provider that expand their broadband (quality).



The value of data in an organization is more than the hardware that stores the data, technology has made it possible to store data via internet. My view is that any of the media will becomes one stop shopping.

Leaders in Africa and Nigeria in particular should follow the Trent of technologies which will go along way in reducing our poverty and corruption. In addition, we should not compromised technology with the basic of sciences.