Development of an Academic Portal Academic Information Service‚ University of Pretoria‚ South Africa HEILA PIENAAR A Web portal can be defined as a Web site for a specific audience that aggregates an array of content and provides a variety of services including search engines‚ directories‚ news‚ e-mail and chat rooms. This article investigates the factors that must be considered during the design and de- velopment of an academic portal. Personal interviews were conducted with academics in order to identify
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IMS657 Legal and Ethical Aspect of Information System Importance of ethics among the IT professional Abstract: In work environment‚ ethics is the common rules or approach for all professionals need to obey in order to achieve a great environment in an organization. Most of people think that ethics and morals is something that share the same meaning but actually they are not. The morals are towards the personal character‚ while ethics stress a social system in which those morals are applied
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Health Information and Technology Word count 2000. This assignment will explain the importance of Information Technology in Healthcare. It will cover why it is important for the information to be correct and up to date‚ and the consequences of it being incorrect. It will also explain each terminology of Confidentiality‚ Integrity and Availability and present a scenario for each of these relating to the use of electronic patient records. For
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Health Information Technology : Quality Issues Author : Neha Salian Co-author : Malvika Hake Abstract Health IT is the technology that enables patients and providers to support better health and health care by providing targeted information meant to inform‚ educate or generally allow for improved decision making. With health care costs and quality assurance taking central roles in the health care arena‚ increasing attention is being directed towards the potential of health information
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organisation ’s corporate social responsibility policies‚ including business ethics‚ and their impact on business practice and key stakeholders Title: How does Nike reconcile the need to minimise the cost of manufacturing with the need to meet the ethical and social expectations of its customers? By WORD COUNT Research Analysis Project – 6224 words (minus table) CONTENTS Page CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Project Aim 3 1.3 Project
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Information technology has changed the way that the world does business. Correspondence that once took weeks to get from one organization to another is now delivered instantly with the push of a button. Advances in telecommunication allow associates from all point of the globe to confer in a virtual environment‚ minimizing the need for business travel. Although the benefits of integrating information technology in business are many‚ there are also disadvantages to its use. Implementation Expenses
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Ethical and Regulatory Issues Paper President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law in February 1996. The law modified earlier legislation‚ primarily the Communications Act of 1934. The legislation regulates broadcasting by over-the-air television and radio stations‚ cable television operators‚ satellite broadcasters‚ wireline telephone companies (local and long distance) and wireless telephone companies. The general intention of the Act was deregulation and competition. The
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Legal and ethical issues associated with modern technologies Lester Moore AET/531 March 05‚2012 John A Wojtecki Legal and ethical issues associated with modern technologies Week five technology proposal to WPX Energy was to implement a combination of technologies into their training program to allow new employees to become productive members of the company and retain all the information pertaining to their new position. the first proposal was for the company to create a virtual bulletin board
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Information and Communication Technologies and the Effects of Globalization: Twenty-First Century "Digital Slavery" for Developing Countries--Myth or Reality? L. A. Ogunsola Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library‚ Obafemi Awolowo University Ile - Ife‚ Nigeria Abstract The main goal of this paper is to examine the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution and the concept of globalization as they effect developing countries. Globalization as one of the reasons for possible widening of
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Moral and ethical issues greet us each morning in the newspaper‚ confront us in the fundamentals of our daily jobs‚ encounter us from our children’s daily school activities‚ and bid us good night on the evening news. We are bombarded daily with discussions of drug abuse‚ the morality of medical technologies that can prolong our lives‚ the rights of the homeless and abortion‚ the fairness of our children’s teachers to the diverse students in their classrooms‚ and sexual morality. Dealing with these
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