Digital Lifestyle and the Road Ahead by

1. Digital Lifestyle and the Road Aheadby Prof.Dr.Srisakdi Charmonman CEO of College of InternetDistance Education charm@ksc.au.edu www.charm.ksc.au.edu

2. • Our lifestyle is more and more digital everyday.

3. Searching “digital” from google shows 1.1 billion items

4. • The word “digital” maybe substituted by “e” for “electronic”.• Example, in alphabetical order, eAuction, eBanking, eCommerce, eDocument, eEncyclopedia, eFinance, eGovernment, eHealth, eIndustry…eZoo, etc.

6. • To appreciate the digital lifestyle and the road ahead, let us dream of what could happen starting from the time we wake up.• At 5:30 am, my alarm clock woke me up with voice message. • “you instructed me to wake you up at 6 am to go to office to meet an important guest at 7:30am.”

7. • “However, I checked the weather and the road condition. It is raining heavily and there are a lot of traffic jams.”• “If I wake you up at 6:00 am, you would not be able to reach the office by 7:30 am.”

8. • So, I got up and went to the bathroom. The system detected my entering the bathroom at 5:40 am and knew from alarm clock system that I was not just using the toilet and would go back to sleep again.• So, it turned on the large screen television so that I can watch and hear the news while in the bathroom.

9. • A voice message was heard and the same text message was flashing at the bottom of the screen.• It said that the person I had an appointment with at 7:30 am would not be able to make it.

10. • He requested a video conference instead at 7:00 am.• So, before 7:00 am I went down from my bedroom to my office at home and started the video conference.

11. • After the video conference, the home computer system reminded me that I had to buy gifts and flowers for some important persons on that day.• So the system connected itself to eCommerce shop and asked me to choose the gifts and flowers to be sent.

12. • The digital lifystyle could go on for the whole day.• Starting with - Digital convergence in communications - User’s friendly software and services - Search for information on the web - Personal diary on the net or blogging - eBusiness and eCommerce - Digital home and eEntainment - eLearning and mLearning - eNew and eBook - Digital Library and eDatabase - eGovernment and eServices

13. Digital Convergence in Communications• With digital convergence, the computer, the telephone, the television, and the cameras are no longer distinct products with separate functions.

14. Digital Convergence in Communications (Cont.)• Convergence makes it possible to have the power of the digital media to combine voice, text, data video and all the multimedia in new applications, device and network.

15. Users’ Friendly Software and Service• Digital downloading must be more users’ friendly. • Apple allows a user to download music from only one computer at a time.• It would be more user friendly to allow downloading from several computers so that the user can mix and match music from multiple vendors.

16. Users’ Friendly Software and Service(Cont.)• Members of the same family may share device.• Software should be available to use PDAs or PCs to synchronize their schedules conveniently.

17. Searching for Information on the Web• In trend with the digital lifestyle, we now look for information more from the web than form the library.

18. From Searchenginewatch.com• Number of searches per day in Feb 2003. - Google 250 Million - Overture 167 Million - Inktomi 80 Million - LookSmart 45 Million - FindWhat 33 Million - Ask Jeevs 20 Million - Alta Vista 18 Million - Fast 12 Million * Number for Google include number for its partner such as Yahoo

19. Searching for Information on the Web(Cont.)• The search engine webs are doing very well financially. - In the year 2004 Google earned over US$ 1 billion in net revenue and over US$ 250 million in profit.

20. Personal Diary on the Net or Blogging• A new part of the digital lifestyle is “blogging”.• “Blogging” is “a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links”

21. Personal Diary on the Net or Blogging(Cont.)• A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site.

22. Personal Diary on the Net or Blogging(Cont.)• In the year 2005, blogging has advanced from personal to business.• For example, from www.smallbusiness.blogspot.com,“blogging is a key marketing and communications trend for small business”.

23. Personal Diary on the Net or Blogging(Cont.)• Another important factor contributing to the popularity of weblog is software packages for blogging.• All of them are free of charge and enable individuals to publish their own weblogs quickly and easily.

24. eBusiness and eCommerce• The term “eBusiness” means the use of the Internet in the whole of business organizations.• The term “eCommerce” is limited to the use of the Internet for selling and buying of products and services.

25. eBusiness and eCommerce(Cont.)• All kinds of businesses and industries are using eBusiness and eCommerce.• For example : - Almost 100% of Dell computers are sold on the Internet. - 92% of CISCO sales through the Internet. - 80% of after-sales services at CISCO are through the Internet.

26. eBusiness and eCommerce(Cont.)• In our digital lifestyle, as individuals, we well be buying and selling digitally through all kinds of webs.• As employees, we would communicate with each other digitally, perform our work digitally, provide services to the customers digitally, and so on.

27. Digital Home and eEntertainment• In Jan 2005, Bill Gates promised at the annual International Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, that Microsoft would help millions of consumers stay seamlessly plugged into a world of digital music, movies, video games and television show, which may be called “digital home”.

28. Digital Home and eEntertainment(Cont.)• Important factors contributing to the success of digital home is high speed or broadband Internet and the falling price of data storages.

29. Digital Home and eEntertainment(Cont.)• So, we can put music, photos, movies, and other aspects of our life into a digital format.

30. Digital Home and eEntertainment(Cont.)• Another aspect of the digital home is security.• IP camera will make it possible for you to see what is in the camera view by connecting to the Internet.

31. eLearning and mLearning• The word “eLearning” stands for learning by use of electronic• The Internet is the technology of choice because of it readily availability.• The main advantage of eLearning is that it is for “anyone, anywhere, anytime”.

32. eLearning and mLearning (Cont.)• There is a global network of 107,773 classroom, 5 million studens from 191 countries called ePALS.• As of the year 2005, 1,100 courses are available free for faculty, students and self-learners around the world to use.

33. eLearning and mLearning (Cont.)• Instead of the computer, mobile phone may be used for learning and, thus, the term “mLearning” for mobile learning.

34. eNews and eBooks• The term “eNews” means news on the net which include newspaper, magazines, radio and television programs.• It is more convenient to get information from CNN through the Internet than through the actual television.

35. eNews and eBooks (Cont.)• On the Internet, if you are interested in any particular topic, you can click directly to that topic.• On the actual TV, if it is broadcasting about weather, you have to watch weather and nothing else.

36. eNews and eBooks (Cont.)• If you want to watch any other program, you have to wait until it is the time to show that program.

37. eNews and eBooks (Cont.)• The term “eBooks” is a computer in the shape of a book with either one page or two pages. • You can download a book or several books onto your eBook and take it with you anywhere.

38. eNews and eBooks (Cont.)• When you would like to have more new books, you can connect your eBook to Internet to download them onto your eBook.• The term “ebook” with the lower-case “b” is used to stand for the book in digital form ready for downloading, and not the machine.

39. eNews and eBooks (Cont.)• There are free ebook available such as at the Net Library.• Most universities now have ebooks available.• For example, as of October 2005, there are 3,331 ebooks at Assumption University.

40. Digital Library and eDatabase• The phrase “digital library” is also know as “electronic library” or “eLibrary”• All universities offering eLearning have established their digital libraries.• For example, students at the college of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University can use the digital library.

41. eLibrary of Assumption University

42. Digital Library and eDatabase (Cont.)• Associated with the digital libraries is the eDatabase.• For example, at Assumption University library, there are OMNI File, ABI/Inform, Dissertation Abstract Online, EMERALD FULLTEXT, Thai Thesis Abstract, ACM Didital Library, IEEE Computer, Proquest Nursing Journal, and Westlaw International.

43. eGovernment and eService• The term “eGovernment” means providing services from the government through the Internet.• Perhaps, a more meaningful term for eGovernment is “eServices”.

44. eGovernment and eService (Cont.)• The main advantages of eGovernment are saving in time and cost, availability 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, increase in transparency of government, And reduction of corruption.

45. eGovernment and eService (Cont.)• Everybody has to use government services from time to time.• We used to travel to government offices to get the services.• Now we can get government services through the Internet.

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