Social and Professional Issues in ICT

Professional communications; teamwork concepts and issues; social context of computing – social informatics, social impact of information technology on society, online communities and social implications, philosophical context, diversity issues, gender-related issues, cultural issues, accessibility issues, globalisation issues, economic issues in computing, and digital divide; intellectual property – foundations of intellectual property, ownership of information, plagiarism, software piracy, fair use, digital millennium copyright act, copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets, international differences; legal issues in computing; organisational context; professional and ethical issues and responsibilities – relationships with professional societies, codes of professional conduct, ethics and history of ethics, whistle-blowing, workplace issues (harassment, discrimination), identify theft, ethical hacking; privacy and civil liberties.