Flashcards: Information technology

Cyberterrorism is the act of Internet terrorism in terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet, by the means of tools such as computer viruses.

An interactive kiosk is a computer terminal featuring specialized hardware and software that provides access to information and applications for communication, commerce, entertainment, and education.

Advanced case management (ACM), also known as dynamic or adaptive case management, refers to the coordination of a service request in finance, health, legal, citizen or human resources-related matters, on behalf of a subject such as a customer, a citizen, or an employee.

E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of electronic communications devices, computers and the Internet to provide public services to citizens.

An entity–relationship model (ER model) describes inter-related things of interest in a specific domain of knowledge.

A hospital information system (HIS) is an element of health informatics that focuses mainly on the administrational needs of hospitals.

In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering.

Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organisational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposition through archiving or deletion.

The VXI bus architecture is an open standard platform for automated test based upon VMEbus.

COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) is a good-practice framework created by international professional association ISACA for information technology (IT) management and IT governance.

Cybercrime, or computer crime, is crime that involves a computer and a network.

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is the broad usage of computer software to aid in engineering analysis tasks.

In computer graphics and digital imaging, scaling refers to the resizing of a digital image.

Token bus is a network implementing the token ring protocol over a "virtual ring" on a coaxial cable.

Information ethics has been defined as "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society".

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via telerobotics, at a place other than their true location.

The term information revolution describes current economic, social and technological trends beyond the Industrial Revolution.

ICT4D grew out of the attempts to use emerging computing technologies to improve conditions in the developing countries.

ISACA is an international professional association focused on IT Governance.

Information processing is the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer.

Consumerization is the reorientation of product and service designs to focus on (and market to) the end user as an individual consumer, in contrast with an earlier era of only organization-oriented offerings (designed solely for business-to-business or business-to-government sales).