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4.1 Understanding ethical and social issues related to systems.

4.2 Ethics in an information society.4.3 The moral dimensions of information

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Chapter four

“ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN

INFORMATION SYSTEMS”

4.1 understanding ethical and social issues related to systems.

• Ethics: refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors.

• Information technology can be use to achieve social progress , but it can also be used to commit crimes and threaten cherished social values .

• A model for thinking a bout ethical , social , and political issues.

• Many of these issues not only touch our society as a whole, but also raise lots of questions for organizations, companies, and the workplace in general. We hear arguments for free speech, personal responsibility, and corporate responsibility.

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• Five moral dimensions of the information age:

1. Information rights and obligation .2. Accountability and control.3. Quality of life.4. Systems quality.5. Property rights and obligation.

• Key technology trends that raise ethical issues.

• Information technologies pose problems and threats to established societal rules, and technological advances pose new situations and possible threats to privacy and ethics.

Technology trends that raise ethical issues.

Trends Impacts Computing power doubles every 18 months.

More organization depend on computer systems for critical operations.

Data strange costs rapidly declining .

Organization can easily maintain detailed databases on individuals.

Data analysis advances. Companies can analyze vast quantities of data gathered on individuals to develop detailed profiles of individual behavior.

Networking advances and the internet.

Copying data from one location to another and accessing personal data from remote locations are much easier.

4.2 Ethics in an information society.

• Did you ever hear the old warning: "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should?" Well, a lot of things are possible on the Internet nowadays, but that doesn't mean you should do them.

• Ethics is easily managed in small groups because the group itself tends to control the individual's behavior. It's referred to as "self-policing."

Basic Concepts: Responsibility, Accountability, and Liability

• Every action causes a reaction. When you're using the Internet, you should be aware of the following:

• Responsibility: Accepting potential costs, duties, and obligations for your decisions.

• Accountability: Determining who should take responsibility for decisions and actions.

• Liability: Legally placing responsibility with a person or group.

• Due Process: ensuring the laws are applied fairly and correctly.

Ethical Analysis• It's safe to say you'll find yourself in situations where your

ethics are challenged. What should you do? Try the following:

• Separate fact from fiction. • Remember, no matter how thin you slice it, there's

always two sides. • Determine who's really involved. • Compromise; it doesn't always have to be an

"either-or" outcome. • Anticipate the outcome; it will help you devise

better solutions.

Professional Codes of Conduct

• Most professional organizations have a code of conduct by which they expect their members to abide. The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has an excellent set of standards that apply to all of us, whether we belong to ACM or not.

4.3 the moral dimensions of information systems:

1. Information rights and obligation .2. Accountability and control.3. Quality of life.4. Systems quality.5. Property rights and obligation.

1. Information rights:•Privacy and freedom in the

internet age.

2. Property rights:• Intellectual property.• Trade secrets.( التجارية (االسرار• Copyright.( الطبع (حقوق• Patents.( االختراع (براءة

3. Accountability , liability ,and control.

4. systems quality : data quality and systems errors.

5. quality of life: equity access and boundaries.

• Computer crime and abuse.

• Is the commission of illegal acts through the use of a computer or against a computer systems.

• Computer abuse : is the commission of acts involving a computer that may not be illegal but that are considered unethical.

Question very important??

1. What is management information systems?

2. How can to create value? 3. How could you use information systems to

achieve greater value?4. How is going to design information

systems?5. Why organization different in their

performance?6. How to use that knowledge?