professional,ethical and moral issues faced by ICT users
DISCUSS SOME OF THE MORAL, ETHICAL, PROFESSIONAL ISSUES FACED BY THE USERS OF ICT SYSTEMS
NAME: LULWAMANI MAZWIKANA
COURSE: TOURISM MANAGEMENT
MODULE: INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
STUDENT NUMBER: TOU14-004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
This report is a study of computer ethics, morals and professional issues facing Information Communication Technology (ICT) users and its relevance to today’s society at large. This issues do not only face ICT users only but the world at large, because it may have effect positively and negatively. This report aims to build knowledge or enhance the understanding about ICT and its ethics, morals and professional issues. The report has identified and discussed the impacts of ethics, morals and professional issues facing ICT users and how this will have negative and positive effects on the users of ICT. The report concludes by discussing possible ways on how to solve this issues and what has been done to reduce this issues.
INTRODUCTION
According to (Anon., 2010) ICT is the technologies that makes people to be able to acquire information through telecommunications. It mainly focuses on communication technologies where people can communicate verbally and non-verbally. This includes the means of internet, wireless networks, cell phones, social networks and other innovated means of communication. Through ICT people can communicate from different countries and it has created a ‘global village’ in a situation where people communicate as if they living next door. Since users of ICT enjoy the easily life brought by ICT there are some issues faced by users of ICT which are ethical, moral and professional. This is through manipulating technology in a bad way to use or access information, due to such it brings up problems makes individuals to consider ICT in a more meticulous way.
1. ETHICAL ISSUES FACING ICT USERS
(Kuzu, 2009) States that computer ethics is the change of studying involving facts,
NAME: LULWAMANI MAZWIKANA
COURSE: TOURISM MANAGEMENT
MODULE: INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
STUDENT NUMBER: TOU14-004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
This report is a study of computer ethics, morals and professional issues facing Information Communication Technology (ICT) users and its relevance to today’s society at large. This issues do not only face ICT users only but the world at large, because it may have effect positively and negatively. This report aims to build knowledge or enhance the understanding about ICT and its ethics, morals and professional issues. The report has identified and discussed the impacts of ethics, morals and professional issues facing ICT users and how this will have negative and positive effects on the users of ICT. The report concludes by discussing possible ways on how to solve this issues and what has been done to reduce this issues.
INTRODUCTION
According to (Anon., 2010) ICT is the technologies that makes people to be able to acquire information through telecommunications. It mainly focuses on communication technologies where people can communicate verbally and non-verbally. This includes the means of internet, wireless networks, cell phones, social networks and other innovated means of communication. Through ICT people can communicate from different countries and it has created a ‘global village’ in a situation where people communicate as if they living next door. Since users of ICT enjoy the easily life brought by ICT there are some issues faced by users of ICT which are ethical, moral and professional. This is through manipulating technology in a bad way to use or access information, due to such it brings up problems makes individuals to consider ICT in a more meticulous way.
1. ETHICAL ISSUES FACING ICT USERS
(Kuzu, 2009) States that computer ethics is the change of studying involving facts,