[Music] good day students welcome again to our virtual class this time let's proceed to the trends in the ict as the world of ict continues to grow the industry has focused on several innovations these innovations cater to the needs of the people that benefit most out of ict whether it is for business or personal use these trends are the current front runners in the innovation of ict first is convergence technological convergence is the synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task for example besides using your personal computer to create word documents you can now use your smartphones it can also use cloud technologies to sync files from one device to another while using lte technology which means you can access your files anytime anywhere convergence is using several technologies to accomplish a task conveniently second social media social media is a website application or online channel that enables web users to create co-create discuss modify and exchange user generated content according to nielsen a global information and measurement company internet users spend more time in social media sites than in any other type of sites with this more and more advertisers use social media to promote their product there are six types of social media first social networks these are sites that allow you to connect with other people with the same interests or background once a user creates his or her account he or she can set up a profile add people create groups and share content example for this facebook and google next bookmarking sites these are sites that allow you to store and manage links to various websites and resources most of these sites allow you to create a tag that allows you and others to easily search for them examples stumble upon and pinterest next social news these are sites that allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources the users can also comment on the post and comments may also be ranked they are also capable of voting on these news articles those who get the most amount of votes are shown most prominently examples for this reddit and dig next we have the media sharing these are sites that allow you to upload and share media contents like images music and videos most of these sites have additional social features like liking commenting and having user profiles examples flickr youtube and instagram next we have micro blogging these are sites that focus on short updates from the user those subscribed to the user will be able to receive these updates examples twitter and clerk next we have the blogs and forums these websites allow users to post their own content other users are able to comment on the said topic there are several free blogging platforms like blogger wordpress and tumblr on the other hand forums are typically part of a certain website or web service now the third trend in ict are the mobile technologies the popularity of smartphones and tablets has taken a major rise over the years this is largely because of the devices capability to do tasks that were originally found in personal computers several of these devices are capable of using high-speed internet today the latest mobile devices use 5g networking lte which is currently the fastest mobile network also mobile devices use different operating systems these are the following first ios used in apple devices such as the iphone and ipad next we have android an open source operating system developed by google being open source means several mobile phones companies use this os for free next we have blackberry os used in blackberry devices next we have windows phone os a closed source and propriety operating system developed by microsoft next we have symbian the original smartphone os used by nokia devices next we have web os originally used for smartphones now used for smart tvs lastly we have windows mobile developed by microsoft for smartphones and pocket pcs now we proceed to the last trend in ict we have assistive media assistive media is a non-profit service designed to help people who have visual and reading impairments a database of audio recordings is used to read to the user you may visit www.assistivemedia.org for several of their audio recordings or you may check it out in the description below well that's all for today i hope you learned something about the trends in ict and by the way if you find this video helpful and informative don't forget to leave a like and comment and also make sure to subscribe also in my channel so that you will be notified every time i publish my latest video [Music] you