Jorge Alvarez ITGS

Activity 14 1. Copy and paste two definitions for each concept related to IT social and ethical issues 2. Highlight the most important words for each one 3. Find two images per word that can explain its meaning 4. Publish your findings in your blog Reliability: -Reliability has to do with the quality of measurement. In its everyday sense, reliability is the "consistency" or "repeatability" of your measures. -Reliability refers to the consistency of a measure. A test is considered reliable if we get the same result repeatedly.

Integrity: -Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited of virtue terms. It is also perhaps the most puzzling. -Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

Security: -Freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. -Something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense.

Privacy: -The state of being private; retirement or seclusion. -The state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs.

Anonymity: -The quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged. -Many people don't want the things they say online to be connected with their offline identities. They may be concerned about political or economic retribution harassment or even threats to their lives.

Intellectual property: -A product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copyrighted property such as literary or artistic works, and ideational property, such as patents, appellations of origin, business methods, and industrial processes.

- Property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks.

Authenticity: -The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine. -The quality of being authentic; genuineness.

Digital division: -The growth of the use of IT systems has led to disparities in the use of, and access to, information technologies -Representing data as a series of numerical values

Equality of access:

-Has the potential to offer universal access to information, regardless of distance, age,race, gender or other personal characteristics. -The ideal of equal access is fundamental to American democracy and the rest of the world. Today, people are constantly discussing and debating whether or not everyone has equal access to everything. The equal access of technology has become one of the greatest issues of them all.

Surveillance: -Surveillance is the use of IT to monitor the actions of people. For example, monitoring may be used to track, record and assess employees performance. It can be used to support claims for promotion or to ensure that employees follow the organizations internet policy appropriately. -Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion.

Globalization: -Globalization means the diminishing importance of geographical, political, economic and cultural boundaries. -The process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications.

Cultural Diversity: -Cultural diversity is the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. -Of or relating to artistic or social pursuits or events considered to be valuable or enlightened.

Policies: -Policies are enforceable measures intended to promote appropriate and discourage inappropriate use relating to information technologies. -They can be developed by governments, businesses, private groups or individuals. They normally consist of rules governing access to, or use of, information, hardware, software and networks.

Standards: -Standards and protocols are technical rules and conventions that enable compatibility and therefore facilitate communication or interoperability between different IT systems and their components. -An accepted or approved example of something against which others are judged or measured.

Protocols: -The formal etiquette and code of behaviour, precedence, and procedure for state and diplomatic ceremonies. -A protocol is a set of guidelines or rules.

People and machines: -There are also social impacts such as internet addiction, where people feel that they can never get away from IT and are trapped on a digital treadmill. -The use of IT systems brings significant advantages, for instance in ease of use

Digital citizenship: -Digital citizenship can be defined as appropriate behaviour that represents the responsible, ethical and legal approach that individuals take in any situation with respect to the use of IT. -Digital citizenship permeates, in one way or another, all of the preceding social and ethical considerations.