How can I explain IT (Information Technology) in layman terms?

Question

With less tech words so that even a elementary student can get it!

Answer 1

Using computers to solve problems.

Answer 2

"The study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware."

Information Technology Association of America
http://www.itaa.org/es/docs/Information Technology Definitions.pdf

Answer 3

The study of how to use blunt sarcasm when users fail to understand that caps-lock is not cruise control for cool.

Answer 4

"Information technology is the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.

Now, people have been using it with many other words from computing and other electronical words. It now covers many more fields of study than it has covered in the past."

Wikipedia (Simple English)
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology

Answer 5

"It stands for, it stands for commitment. It stands for audacity. It stands for courage in the face of.."

Answer 6

The term you reach for when you can't explain something related to computers or internet.

Answer 7

Using technology to store, retrieve and process electronic data.

Answer 8

Basically Information Technology is the study (and use) of digital technology to solve problems in business, and more generally the traditional home consumer.

The technology generally comes in the form of computers, but is not limited to just that. Also the technology is often used to handle large amounts of data (from Internet to data stored in company databases).

Answer 9

Anything that involves computers is IT or part of IT.

Answer 10

Using machines to access and organise information more easily than humans can on their own.

Answer 11

If you speak german then the video "Nieder mit IT" may amuse you.

Answer 12

At my job, if it has buttons,lights, batteries, wires, a screen, or anything electronic... its IT, or at least its IT's responsbility to fix.

Answer 13

I had the same ( sort of ) question back in ServerFault.

This is the link if it helps.

What is IT and what is not?

Answer 14

The technology used to manage information. Specifically information storage, processing and transmission.

Answer 15

RIT's definition is the user end of the software development spectrum. Here, IT majors are taught to make good graphical user interfaces and support software. There are also networking specialists who are taught how to do networking and security professionals, who are taught how to build secure networks. RIT was the first university to have a degree program in Information Technology in 1992.

Answer 16

Information is very important to people. People are always looking for more information. They want to know what movies are showing at the local theater or what the weather will be like on Tuesday or what a cat would say if he were in ur emailz deletin ur spam.

Information Technology experts use advances in science and technology to facilitate this quest for information. They create new systems to serve information to the public, or they use existing technology to deliver new information.

Answer 17

Information Technology is certainly the place where otherwise sane people go to test the limits of their own patience, the lengths of their creativity and a humble position when a loud and emberassing laugh is more appropriate.

Answer 18

Information is power. Power is money.

Information technology helps people get, use and create information.