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OCR Nationals
Unit 8
Technological Innovation and E-Commerce
How to complete this assignment
 In Unit 8 we are going to investigate how
information technology has changed people’s
lives.
 You will need to do your own research to be able
to answer the questions.
 On the last slide you will find a link to a page
with lots of useful websites on it. Use these links
to do your research.
 Click here to see the grade descriptions so you
know what you need to do to get the best marks.
Introduction
Our age is one defined by technology. Never before in human history have we
had access to so many ways of communicating.
The internet has given people access to information on a scale that would have
been unimaginable only fifteen years ago. But how do you know it’s true? You
can buy almost anything on the internet but that doesn’t just mean CDs. How
about babies? Guns? People’s credit card details?
This new technology exposes us to all sorts of dangers and it has opened up a
minefield of new moral dilemmas.
I hope that by completing this unit you will gain a thorough understanding of
technological innovation and e-commerce.
At the end of this unit you will be
able to…
• Identify the effects of ICT on the individual
• Describe an innovation in ICT
• Investigate how e-commerce has affected
The way people buy goods and services
• Investigate one e-commerce website, and
• Understand legal and moral issues in the
digital age
Task 1 - Identify the effects of ICT
on the individual
Choose one item from at least three of the different
categories of technology as listed below.
•Internet eg: email, WWW, messenger, chat rooms
•Communication eg: mobile phone, video phone,
video conferencing, information points
•Entertainment eg: games console, MP3 player,
digital TV
•Mobile access eg: laptop, PDA, wi-fi, WAP
•Data capture eg: digital camera, voice recorder,
scanner
Then consider the effects of these
items on people.
Discuss:
• How this technology is used
• Benefits eg: speed, ease of use
• Disadvantages eg: cost, theft, limitations
of the chosen technology
Task 2 - Describe an innovation in
ICT
Innovation: The introduction of new ideas,
goods, services, and practices which are
intended to be useful.
Task 2
Identify one innovation in ICT e.g. Bluetooth, TV on
demand, GPS systems, mobile phone technologies.
Describe:
• its purpose
• the extent to which it achieves its purpose
• how it works
• benefits and limitations
The innovation MUST be relatively new. An
investigation into the introduction of IT into offices is
not an acceptable topic of study.
Task 3 – Investigate how ecommerce has changed the way
people buy goods and services.
(a) Give a definition of e-commerce.
Task 3
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(b) Explain how e-commerce has changed
the way people buy goods and services
eg:
choice
location
convenience
cost
flexibility
Useful Sites
 Follow this link to a list of useful
websites.
Task 4 - Investigate one
ecommerce
website
Examples of these are:
 Auction sites e.g. EBay
 Online shops e.g. amazon.co.uk, play.com
 Digital download site e.g. itunes.com
Task 4
You must:
 Identify its audience and purpose. This means
say who it is meant for and what the site is for
e.g. to sell CDs, DVDs and games.
 You need to provide annotated screenshots of
its e-commerce features. This means things like
search facilities, shopping baskets, encryption
and user accounts.
• Describe and illustrate the services provided eg
buying/selling products. You will need to use
annotated screenshots to show you understand
what these are.
Task 5 – The legal and moral
aspects of the digital age
In this part of the assignment you will create
a report. You may choose one or both of the
following (they are hyperlinks):
1. Confidential data
2. The internet/IT and crime
You will need to write a thorough report IN
YOUR OWN WORDS of the issue and the
law around it.
 Here are two more links
 http://justus.anglican.org/resources/tracts/
nc/ethical.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide