Information Technology (IT) has penetrated almost all sectors of life in this century. Starting from the facilities, infrastructure, equipment, and all life documents to historical records have been using IT. However, the use of this technology should be pursued cautiously because productivity due to IT usage in various fields of life presents a paradox in the community.
According to the Head of Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences UGM, Dr. Jazi Eko Istiyanto, the use of IT forces a person to have copy of documents on various media, such as USB flashdisk and CD-ROMs on different documents servers or store documents at friend’s. This is done to prevent if there is data loss someday.
Jazi added that IT enables social networking through mailing lists and social network. Unfortunately, the time allocation provided in fact reduces the productive time. "IT technology causes “information flood” so that productivity reduces because the time is used to sort and select information," Eko said on Monday (20/9), during the Anniversary of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Delivering scientific speech entitled The Value Chain of DIKW and the Future of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences UGM, Eko emphasized that IT has reduced productivity due to rampant crimes in cyberspace (cybercrime) and increased the non-intellectual unemployment. This technology also provides access to porn sites and unlimited Internet game so it potentially undermines productive time.
He explained that the decline in productivity due to the use of IT is not caused by IT technology, but because many people still do not have the ability to differentiate between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. IT development and change will be unstoppable. Newer generation of processors will continue to appear. The latest version of the software will continue to overcome the problem of the previous version ones. As supporting technology, IT systems in terms of capacity, speed, data encryption, and selection data channel for the user are progressively developing and became more complex. "However, IT technology has come up with a lot of data. Most of the data must be filtered according to needs, process, quality of human resources and organizational structure. The existing data should be filtered so that it can obtain information. Further information can be collected and their relations can be sought for to get knowledge. From the knowledge, the best action is finally formulated, i.e. a policy that could be implemented,” Eko explained in the Auditorium of the Faculty.
On its 30th anniversary, the Faculty has proven its ability to manage the "business" of information which has begun since 1955. Main business of the Faculty is inseparable from data (D), Information (I), knowledge (K), and wisdom (W) contained in the Mathematics and Natural sciences. Therefore, in order to ensure the future of the Faculty, knowledge-management, creative and innovative learning methods, reinforcement of fundamental skills and intuition, discipline integration of Mathematics with community culture, the inventory-enthusiasts interested in science, promoting climate research, as well as writing and dissemination of ideas need to be developed. "In addition, to strengthen the paradigm, the Faculty is expected not only to support the engineering, health and agricultural sciences, but also supports the humanity sciences. Therefore the Faculty is encouraged to develop science-based entrepreneurship," Jazi Eko ended his speech.