This course introduces students to the fundamentals concepts in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the ways ICTs are used at home and work environments and skills pertaining to ICT applications and using them to solve problems. Topics to be treated in this course include computers and telecommunication concepts, components and systems, evolution and classification of computers, microcomputer hardware devices, Information representation on computer devices, ASCII and other encoding standards, operating system, Application software, networking of computers, Information technology applications and issues in information centres in developing countries.