Benefits of Technology

There are countless benefits of technology it does not only provide jobs to millions of
people around the world but for stimulation of innovation and business expansion. New
and more advance ethnologies are needed for the continuous competitiveness of business
and an indispensable tool for industry leaders to stay on top.

1. Direct job creation

The ICT industry continues to be one of the largest sources of employment. From the
core ICT group, the greatest number of establishments are found in ICT enabled services,
broadcast media, and computer hardware, while the ones that employs the utmost number
of workers are IT-BPM, electronics and semiconductors, and computer hardware firms.

2. Emergence of new services and industries

The emergence of ICT paved the way for public services to gain greater accessibility
by using online channels and mobile phones. ICT has also led to the creation of a completely
new sector, which is the app industry. Study shows that Facebook app alone has created
more than 182,000 jobs in 2011, and that the aggregate value of the Facebook app economy
exceeds USD 12 billion.

3. Transformation of the workforce

ICT has pushed the boundaries of the work place structure just how online classes
done. If you want to teach online abroad no need for you to go abroad like China and Japan
but stay at the comfort of your home and technology will handle it. Being employed
nowadays does not have to mean that you have to be physically present in the actual
company or establishment. Filipinos are so smart to sell and advertise products online
using Facebook that they no longer need a physical store to display. Selling products
nowadays is accessible.

4. Business innovation
ICT provides all the needed tools for business expansion and innovation. Social networking sites
have proven themselves as effective and powerful marketing tools such as Facebook, online store like
Shoppe and Lazada. Filipinos are so smart to sell and advertise products online using Facebook that they
no longer need a physical store to display. Selling products nowadays is accessible.

Weakest Link in a System using Strategic

and Intuitive Thinking
 While the potential benefits of ICT are abundant, some challenges still need to be
addressed to maximize the full gains from investing in this technology.
As to date, personal computers are still prohibitively expensive for many. This is the
reason why shared access through community centers and cybercafes is still practiced.
Complementary technologies that are non-PC devices like mobile phones should be made
into a viable option.
Mobile telephony has improved worldwide but it still remains expensive, limited,
unreliable in rural areas, remote island, and poor at providing data connection.
In several cases, content is not meaningful or locally relevant to the end users. The
system today tends to make the consumers passive recipient of information instead of
creators and producers of local information. In addition, rich content required multimedia,
which, in turn, requires a consistent and reliable broadband connectivity.
Computer literacy remains a challenge. This means that users need to be aware,
literate, and innovative to maximize the full gains from ICT. Just as reading and
mathematical literacy are considered as priorities and necessities by both the state and
society, the same should be true for ICT. ICT is a language of its own. People are empowered
if they can master this language.

ICT to Facilitate Social Relationships and

Political Movements
Technology has become an integral part of people’s lives and it has changed the way we
think, communicate and plan events with friends.
However, with the expansion of the internet and communication and the creations of e-mails
and social networks such as Tweeter , Facebook, and Instagram social relationships
took their first steps towards a completely new era. The development of both software and
hardware makes communication much easier.

ICT facilitate social relationship as it makes people closer. We can instantly text or call using our
phone and with the presence of social media people can easily update themselves with the latest trends
and get connected with friends and loved ones.

Technologies such as radio, the Internet and the mobile phone provides a variety of illustrations
of their uses and applications in social struggles, large and small for political movements. Politicians
takes so much advantage on technology as it helps them build their image by broadcasting their
platforms and achievement to gain popularity from people.
Intervention to Improve Human Life using
ICT
Technology has help human race tremendously but with the countless positivity
it brings it could still destroy human and relationship if used wrongly and excessively. A
growing up child if allowed to excessively used mobile for entertainment then technology
will likely destroy that child for it could possibly lead to mobile addiction and loses interest
at school. So, used of technology among children should be regulated and guided by
parents.

Connections, Relationships, And Networks

NETWORKS

Zeev Maoz (2011, 7 and 38-39) in Network of Nations, defines network as a set of units like
nerves, species, individuals, institutions or states, and a rule that determines the “magnitude, and/or
direction of ties” that exist between any two social entities or nodes. In most cases, the same nodes
can be simultaneously related to multiple networks with each network defined by a particular set of
rules. For example, a group of persons in a church organization may be a member of different networks
like a friendship networks, neighborhood networks, or community-based networks (Maoz,2011,40). A
set of networks that is made up of the same set of nodes is known as a hypernetwork or a multiplex

Networks can be classified into two types, namely relational and affiliational networks. Relational
networks or one-mode networks are characterized by rules that determine the presence, direction, and
extent of a relationship between any two units. Example of relational units include neighborhood,
friendship , alliance, or trade networks. Affiliation networks refer to networks in which the rule
determines an affiliation of a unit with an event, organization, or group. Examples of affiliational
networks include membership in a professional organization, national membership in international
oganizations, or the distribution of the different provincial population based on their religion or ethnic
affiliations.

CONNECTIONS

Connection refers to the tie that links actors to one another. It illustrates what links unit A to Unit
B. The range of connections or ties that link any two actors are wide-ranging. Examples of connections
that can be used to show ties among actors include behavioral interactions, physical connections,
association or affiliation, evaluation of one person by another person, and even formal relations. In a
school set-up for example, ties among actors can be based on who are chatting with each other
(behavior interaction),who are seated together during class or during break time (physical
 connection),who are taking the same subjects or belonging to the same group for a particular class
project (association or affiliation), whom one considers as a friend (evaluation of one person by
another). Or it can be based on who has authority over whom (formal relations).

Connections between social units establishes a tie or link between two actors or social units.
Connections between two actors form a dyad. DYAD is the basic unit of social networks which is made
up of a pair of actors. Below are examples of a dyad social network:

1. A child who wishes to form friendship ties with another child

2. A store manager consults with his assistant manager
3. The Philippines wants to form an alliance with another country in the Southeast Asian region.

When three actors are involved, it is called a triad. Example of a traid includes the following:
1. A child who wishes to form friendship ties with two other children
2. A store manager consults with his assistant manager and store
3. supervisor.
4. The Philippines wants to form an alliance with two other countries in the Southeast Asian
region

RELATIONSHIPS
In understanding connections, it is important to collect information on multiple ties in order to understand
the depth of connections or the lack thereof among social units or actors. The collection of ties among the actors
in a group is called relationship. In social network analysis, relationships refers to “a collection of ties of a specific
kind measured on pairs of actors” from a particular group of social entities. (Carolan,2014,6). A single group of
actors can have several different forms of relationships. For example, if you want to study the connections of
middle-aged friends, one can also look into the connections of the parents of the middle-aged friends.

Ego networks is made up of a focal actor or node called ego and the nodes to whom the ego is directly
connected or linked. These social units to whom the ego is connected are called alters