Social & Ethical Issues To IS

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Social issues:

The Social Issues in Information System track includes all aspects of social
issues that are impacted by information technology affecting organizations
and inter-organizational structures. This track provides an outlet for
scholarship in the changes information resource management, information
technology, and information systems have effected on society. The term
"society" here refers to the world at large, nations, cultures within nations,
and interaction among peoples. The scholarship examines who is affected,
why, how, and where, and what effects those changes make in society. The
topics in the track are expected to be varied. This would include the
conceptualization of specific social issues and their associated constructs,
proposed designs and infrastructures, empirical validation of social models,
and case studies illustrating socialization success and failures. Some key
topics may include:

1) ethics
2) culture
3) relationships,
4) human interaction
5) security
6) design
7) building relationships
8) diversity in the IT workforce 

Ethical issues:

PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT AND WRONG USED BY INDIVIDUALS AS FREE


MORAL AGENTS TO GUIDE BEHAVIOR, Ethics include moral choices made
by individuals in relation to the rest of the community, standards of
acceptable behavior, and rules governing members of a profession. The broad
issues relating to information systems include control of and access to
information, privacy and misuse of data, and international considerations. All
of these extend to electronic networks, electronic databases, and, more
specifically, to geographic information systems. Specific problems within each
of the three areas, however, require slightly different kinds of ethical
decisions. Networks, electronic information systems in general and
geographic information systems in particular are discussed separately below.
Codes of conduct and practice, Confidentiality agreements, Intellectual
property rights, Electronic monitoring of employees, Impartiality of data
utilization, Morality in information systems.

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