{"id":224,"date":"2007-07-09T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2007\/07\/09\/the-phrase-ict\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","slug":"the-phrase-ict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2007\/07\/09\/the-phrase-ict\/","title":{"rendered":"The phrase ICT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate the abbreviation &#8220;ICT&#8221;. Somehow every time I hear it I get slightly annoyed with it.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately it looks like other people don&#8217;t like it either. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nICT which stands for Information and Communication Technology is usually the phrase used by the public sector in the UK to talk about computers and telephones.<\/p>\n<p>The good news though, is that Register readers don&#8217;t like it either. 88% of responders in a web poll wanted it banned. (57% said yes without conditions, 31% wanted it banned but with the condition of more Paris Hilton stories)<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m really lucky perhaps this abbreviation can be removed from usage altogether. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate the abbreviation &#8220;ICT&#8221;. Somehow every time I hear it I get slightly annoyed with it. Fortunately it looks like other people don&#8217;t like it either. \ud83d\ude42 ICT which stands for Information and Communication Technology is usually the phrase used by the public sector in the UK to talk about computers and telephones. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}