Module 1. Computer and modern society

access (n)

• entering a computer system; getting information from a storage device; means of access: to have ~ to more than 150,000 e-books;

computer (n)

• an electronic machine that can store, organize and find information, do calculations and control other machines: ~s perform many tasks; ~-generated unemployment;~ industry; to set up a ~; to restart a ~; to reboot a ~;

data (n)

• a collection of factual knowledge about something; a body of facts; information: e-vote ~;

digital (adj)

• about an electronic system that has only two states, off and on: exchange ~ data; ~ citizens; ~ media extender; play ~ content onto TVs; Ant. analogue;

emoticon (n)

• an abbreviation or icon used on a network to indicate amusement: use ~s;

e-voting (n)

• a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes: ~ ballots; ~ voting machines;

Information

Technology (n)

• (also Information Technologies) development, implementation, and maintenance of computer hardware and software systems to organize and communicate information electronically;

information

society (n)

• a society characterised by a high level of information intensity: machine tools of the ~; a global ~;

Information

Resources Management

• techniques of managing information as a shared organizational resource;

program (n)

• a series of instructions which can be put into a computer in order to make it perform an operation;

programme (n)

• a broadcast on television or radio: the government information ~ of the Republic of Belarus “e-Belarus”;

store (v)

• to save information in electronic form, for example in a computer’s memory: ~ gigabytes of music on a PMP;

transmit (v)

• to send out an electronic signal such as a radio, television or computer signal; to pass information to other people: ~ vote data.