This article is about a trading website called "OLX" which is previously called "Dealfish". The purpose of this website is for people to trade unused items or second hand items to another people who want it. It's a useful website to clear out valuable items that we doesn't use for some cash. This website is similar to Ebay and is popularly used around the world(and also in Thailand). There are around 9 million visitors(Thailand) each month so it's quite a lively place. A lot of people also get good feedback from posting their possessions online.
i. Critical Politician movement:
Google remove 236 communities and profiles from social network in India after the government complained that they were critical of a local politician.
ii. Privacy violation:
The users in Turkey were restricted from being able to see material about the private lives of political officials.
iii. Local law violation:
There was a problem that in Thailand, where someone uploads the video that insulted Thailand's monarchy, which was illegal under local laws. This caused the user in Thailand to ban YouTube site for a year.
The universe of apps has made life more convenient, more fun and more distracting. For example, you can find your lover. But in truth, most apps are designed for those whose life is already convenient. According survey there are total of 1.4 million people with disabilities in thailand. Worldwide, there are many apps which help facilitate the lives of physically impaired.
1. TTRS MESSAGE.
This service allows people with hearing or speech impairment to place calls to standard telephone users via a keyboard or assistive device. TTRS operators interpret the calls, which can be initiated by either party. Callers use a text input device to contact the TTRS relay centre, then give the operator the number of the party he or she wants to call. The operator, in turn, will place an outbound traditional voice call to that particular party. The operator serves as a link between the two callers, relaying the text of the initial caller in voice to the other party, as well as converting spoken words to text. The service was first offered only via desktop and kiosk platforms, but it is now available to mobile users via an app.
2.Read for the blind.
Wichai Pornpratang, vice president of telecommunications business at Thai Samsung Electronics, said the main technology used to develop this app is a voice recorder which records users reading. Those audio files are uploaded to the Thai Blind People Foundation's server. Then converted to DAISY3 books to achieve an acceptable level of audio quality. With this format, users can serach for and regulate reading voices, make duplicates and place bookmarks.
3.Wheel Go Round
It is windows phone application for wheelchair users that locates and rates the nearest wheelchair accessible facilities such as parking areas, elevators, ramps and toilets.
The app also allows users to take photos and add places where facilities for those in wheelchairs are available. It is great benefit, but the app could be improved if it allowed users to scan for t
Questions:
How does TTRS work?
What is benefit of RFB?
how can you improve wheel go round?
What special techonolgy does Traffic voice information service have?
Bangkok Post: Virtual mall opens its doors
www.bangkokpost.com/...virtual-mall-opens-its-doors
1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to.
Digital citizenship and people + machines / Home and leisure
2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system.
Broadband technologies, 3D shopping, people individuals online shopping / Designer Companies, Online Shoppers, Ubermall
3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article.
Security
4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems.
The ITGS terminology and systems is concerned to the virtual 3D online shopping. The site will allow shoppers to build new relationships by chatting with sellers and fellow customers. online 3D virtual world promoting businesses and tourist attractions that represent the country's "creative economy" policy. The new online shopping has opened in Thailand and it is likely 3D virtual mall. Shoppers can fill up their currency at anytime on the Internet by that currency software.
5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue).
The issue in this article is that this action will increase the economic issue and the business can increase their amount of products. " The company is also expanding its presence to Facebook, at apps.facebook. com/taraddotcom, in an effort to bring together its merchants and offer them the chance to sell their products through the world's most popular social network, in what is described as the first example of "social commerce" in Asia. However, there should be some security for payment online, which means that the site must be more secured in term of policy.
1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to.
Business, Leisure
2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system.
IT users, mainly the ones who access social networking sites through mobile devices smart phone/tablet users, the business companies.
3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article.
The digital Divide and the Equality of Access / Globalization and Cultural Diversity
4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems.
The tablets that offer internet as well as phone features play an important role in making the system work. The tablets offer a larger screen for the access compared to mobile phones, and it is challenging business companies and sites to remake their site into different various resolutions to fit all the new screen sizes. This affects the software of the program as well as the use of internet to connect to these sites. These sites offer personal and public communications through sites like Facebook.
Social Networking - the grouping of individuals who have joined together to form a virtual community or neighborhood subdivision.
Smart Phone: the "smart" mobile device that offers more advanced connectivity than the normal contemporary feature phone.
5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue).
Users around Thailand are now being more connected online besides the rural areas where cable TV have a larger impact. Having governmental or commercial groups to try and build signal towers as well as spread the awareness of the use of mobile phones and decreases who uses the internet, and who doesn't.
Tangerine, a reseller of Google enterprise product, says business policies for
dealing with cloud computing in Thailand will start to emerge this year
The cloud applications specialist has just started providing consulting and
selling cloud services for Salesforce.com after providing services for
enterprises and supply chains for two decades.
Why is cloud computing gaining widespread adoption?
Why is it cheaper?
Describe saas
Describe the Tangerine example.
What kind of customers does salesforce target?
How does cloud computing encourage collaboration?
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1.Why is cloud computing gaining widespread adoption?
Cloud computing is gaining widespread adoption because cloud computing enables users to connect to corporate data and applications via online enabled devices. It offers the complexities and unique requirements of sophisticated applications, yet delivers them in less time and with lower startup costs.
2.Why is it cheaper?
Cloud computing is cheaper cost when they deliver IT systems because businesses pay for only what is used and by that they could reduce the amount of cost in capital and operating cost.
3.Describe SaaS.
SaaS stands for Software as a Service. Users who use services that is net-based are charged for the software they used, either as a subscription or as a pay-as-you-go basis. It is basically charging the service costs for the software that the users are utilizing.
4.Describe the Tangerine example.
Tangerine is a company that sells enterprise version of Google mail and applications. These applications uses Gmail or Google's online document systems as an interface. Users who use Tangerine are charged a subscription fee for the usage of Tangerine.
5.What kind of customer does sales-force target?
Salesforce is targeting people who actively use clouding computing system. Basically, it could be individual people but mostly many huge companies are using clouding computing to work efficiently. Also this system could save the money for the storage systems.
6. How does cloud computing encourage collaboration?
By using user-friendly services like Facebook rather than conventional e-mail, feeds rather than memos, a touch-based system rather than a click-user interface, a push-based information system rather than pull or browse, location-based technology rather than unknown locations, and web service/HTML rather than Windows or Mac.