INDIVIDUAL RIT

Individual RIT

Individual RIT

Learning Logbook

This handout will entail information regarding the research that is being conducted in relation to Information technology:

The first part of the research deals with the standpoint of the theory of location, information technology has the potential to provide industry and the people more independent, focusing on the movement of information in contrast to the movement of goods, materials and people.

The second part of the study on the decentralization and how it affects information technology in the urban hierarchy. The paintings, usually for integrated services, information and decision-making activities to locate in major centers. The third stage takes into account the changes that have occurred in the area of information technology in the development of resources and other factors for increased dispersal of the Australian population. Sydney and Melbourne experienced a relative decline in economic growth while some other state capitals such as Brisbane and Perth, as well as leading centers of the country, have higher growth rates. Fourthly, we see that technological change, above all, a dynamic process: change creates more changes. Other technology development and in general are often intertwined the two technologies (such as computers and telecommunications), which leads to a radical renewal. And finally, we see whether we use computers for centralization and decentralization of decision-making is not determined by any inherent new technologies. The determining factor is not technology, but how we decided to use this technology.

Critically Reflective Report

Introduction

In location theory terms, information technology can potentially render industry and people more footloose by emphasizing the movement of information-as distinct from movement of goods, materials and persons. An important aspect of this is the so called telecommunication-transportation tradeoff, or T3 as it was dubbed by Jussawalla et al, which broadly concerns the extent to which flows of information via telecommunication can substitute for or provide an alternative to the physical movement of people and goods.

The range of substitution possibilities is diverse. For convenience, they may he divided into those directly applicable to goods and materials, and those directly applicable to people. In the first category, ways in which information can substitute for the physical movements of goods and materials include: more efficient co-ordination and thus less movement? less physical transfer of paper, less materials wastage/reduction of requirements for inputs/doing more with less, smaller space requirements due to reduction of stock levels and miniaturization of information processing and storage facilities.

For people, telecommunications and other information technologies can potentially substitute for or provide an alternative to: intra-city travel to work,'! intercity business travel,'? health" and education services, shopping,'- entertainment, job search, social calls, meter reading, mail delivery and library visits. The question is, to what extent can information technology substitute for physical proximity, for face to face interaction between people? It is possible to see every phone call as an incidence of this kind of substitution. However the general conclusion drawn from statistical studies is often a denial of the substitution process, i.e. "when travel is made easier, telecommunication increases; when it becomes ...