Even though ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) is a broader spectrum which includes IT (Information Technologies), more often the career aspect of ICT is a major job in IT. To say so, IT is the major half of ICT, mixed up with communications technologies say from Telecommunications to Mass Communications or whatever you name which comes in information relying among the nodes. Let’s explore what defines an ICT career and what does ICT Job looks like.

There are two aspects of defining an ICT Career, not only ICT4D Career but as a whole:

Classic ICT Jobs

• Telecommunication Engineer
• IT Program Manager
• Software Programmer
• Applications Developer
• IT Procurement and Management (Traditional computerized way)
• IT Service Manager
• Web Developer and Webmasters
• IT Author

Modern ICT-heavy Jobs

• IT Consultants
• Big Data Analyst
• Business Technology Management & Business Intelligence Analyst
• Social Media Manager
• Graphic and Animation Designer
• Entrepreneurship & Start-up Incubators
• Digital Publishers includes ePublishers, Bloggers
• Communications Managers
• eCommerce, mCommerce Manager
• eProcurement and Digital (IT) Assets Manager
• Multimedia Marketing Manager
• Customer Satisfaction Manager

While the nature of ICT Jobs vary from geographical locations and need of the organization, ICT jobs are more or less directly related with the digital or computer fields in most of the cases. The jobs in ICT4D sector seek a little bit of managerial IT type which however is gained along with the experience of being IT employee.

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