BYOD
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): abbreviazione
Anche BYOT (… technology), BYOP (phone), BYOPC (PC)
Hazelton does not feel that BYOPC will become as common practice as BYOD but does indicate that there are some circumstances where it is viable.
A BYOT initiative can actually supplement what a school might already have in terms of technology and increase access.
While solutions have been created, BYOP does pose certain problems.
In un post precedente abbiamo parlato di MOOC, acronimo di Massive Open Online Course. BYOD, BYOPC, BYOT, BYOP ecc. sono dette in inglese initialisms (sigle) perché pronunciate una lettera per volta (anche se nell’uso comune acronym e initialism sono considerati sinonimi). BYOD (cioè ‘porta il tuo dispositivo’) e le altre sigle appena citate si riferiscono al fenomeno sempre più diffuso di consentire a dipendenti o studenti di portare il proprio dispositivo mobile in azienda o a scuola e accedere così a informazioni e dati dell’azienda o della scuola stessa. Ovviamente tale sistema può rappresentare un problema per quanto riguarda la sicurezza delle informazioni e dei dati, anche se non si tratta di una difficoltà insormontabile.
BYO (Bring Your Own) è una sigla estremamente flessibile, dato che basta aggiungere un’altra lettera per ottenere un’infinità di sigle dai significati diversi a seconda del contesto. Dunque BYOP può voler dire Bring Your Own Phone, espressione usata nella telefonia mobile per indicare l’acquisto di una carta sim o la stipula di un contratto senza cambiare cellulare; ma la P può anche voler dire pumpkin (ad una festa di Halloween), popcorn (alla proiezione di un film), paint (per il paintball), picnic ecc.
Origini del termine
BYOD e tutte le altre sigle viste finora derivano da una sigla, BYOB, che non ha niente a che fare con la tecnologia. BYOB sulla vetrina di un ristorante o su un invito a una festa significa ‘Bring Your Own Bottle’ (o ‘booze’), cioè ‘portatevi da bere’. A volte la sigla viene abbreviata in BYO (la bottiglia è sottintesa). Per quanto riguarda i ristoranti la prassi nasce dal fatto che non tutti hanno la licenza per vendere alcolici; in certi fanno pagare una piccola cifra per stappare la bottiglia portata dal cliente, in altri no.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): abbreviation
Also BYOT (… technology), BYOP (phone), BYOPC (PC)
Hazelton does not feel that BYOPC will become as common practice as BYOD but does indicate that there are some circumstances where it is viable.
A BYOT initiative can actually supplement what a school might already have in terms of technology and increase access.
While solutions have been created, BYOP does pose certain problems.
We looked in a previous post at the acronym MOOC. BYOD and its siblings are abbreviations of a different kind. Instead of being pronounced as a word, the letters are pronounced individually, making it technically an initialism (though some people still refer to it as an acronym). BYOD and the rest refer to the practice of allowing or encouraging students and employees to bring their own technological devices into their place of education or work and use them to access the systems and information there. Obviously this increasingly popular practice has security and safety implications that have to be addressed.
BYO is an incredibly flexible initialism, allowing an extra letter or letters to stand for almost anything, depending on context. So BYOP can mean Bring Your Own Phone, and is used by phone companies wanting to sell contracts to people who already have their own devices; but the P can also stand for pumpkin (for a Halloween party), popcorn (for a film screening), paint (for paintballing), picnic and so on.
Origin
BYOD and all the related abbreviations derive from an initialism that has nothing to do with technology. BYOB on a party invitation means ‘Bring Your Own Bottle’ (or ‘booze’) and is a suggestion that you should bring a liquid contribution, generally speaking an alcoholic one, to the party. It’s sometimes written as BYO, the ‘bottle’ part being understood. In my experience it’s not much seen nowadays, but then neither are formal party invitations. It is however sometimes seen on notices in restaurants that are not licensed to sell alcohol, but allow you to bring your own.
