It is responsible for the importance of ethics among IT professionals to ensure that computer technology is not misused in ways that can harm people, the environment and society. They can contribute better to an organization with the employee's ethics directly.
Interesting question that has many edges that I would like to share with you, first; consider that technology is a social fact, beyond the artifact we must consider that technology is a social phenomenon that arises and unfolds in a complex cultural system, where we must take into account the knowledge, habits and assessments that each society imposes on medium of both singular and universal features. Obviously technology is not harmless, it is marked by social interests that are determined by the interests of each society and each culture. Therefore, to analyze the importance of the ethical use of technology, we must think about the social groups that use each technology and the interests that are behind each of its members. There is no doubt that the role of technology is increasingly important in the development of today's society, there is no country in the world that can develop its economy successfully if it is not actively integrated into the new technologies that are they are imposing on all branches of knowledge and the economy. If we talk about ethics, the first thing is to consider that technology is not harmless, that it responds to interests that are beyond the groups that created them, they are basically in the groups that use it. Its use is related to political, economic, social and other interests that impose a type of ethics that is determined by the social classes that have the power to handle these technologies. This is my modest opinion on this particular. I copy a fragment of the book published by my professor Ph. D. Jorge Núñez Jover that can illustrate in some way what we are talking about: "An artifact as seemingly innocuous as a bridge can be loaded with politics, as Langdon Winner shows ( 1986) in his well-known example of the Long Island, New York bridges, many of the Long Island walk bridges are remarkably low, barely three meters high, Robert Moses, the New York City architect responsible for those bridges , as well as many other New York parks and roads since 1920, had a clear purpose in designing the two hundred long steps of Long Island. It was about reserving the area's rides and beaches to well-off white car owners, the well-off classes that Francis Scott Fitzgerald describes in The Great Gatsby (1925) The buses that could transport poor and black people, four meters high, were not able to reach the zone. Later, Moses made sure of this by vetoing a proposed extension of the Long Island Railroad to Jones Beach. "
Haghi A.K. Juan Manuel Montero Peña I try to challenge my students to understand that most technology can be both constructive positive tools for humans and society and almost always can also be destructive "weapons". This is one of the great ethical challenges and dilemmas with technology. I ask my students to try to assess the value of technology in context. Question like: Does it work? Does it facilitate long term benefit for the people it involves? Does it improve the situation for the people it concerns? Does it improve the relations for the people it concerns? Recognition, functionality and benefit are three important perspectives. Also I would like to see more caution in developing new technology by asking questions like: What are the potential negative uses/effects of this technology? The examples we struggle with today are endless.
There is no question about the importance of ethics relative to technology. However, is the evolution in ethics keeping pace with the evolution in technology? It is obvious the rate in civil evolution is not the same for all societies. Perhaps, focusing on the science of evolution may exploit technology in ways to aid ethical evolution.
Humans invented technologies, most of which are generally useful for humans. Some of them are beneficial for certain group(s). Some are widely seen as harmful if not well controlled. Thus, ethics is important.
Ethical consumption and ethical use of technologies helps society overcome the complex of social weaknesses, increases the solidarity of citizens with each other and teaches them to engage in dialogue with government and business. Ethical consumption practices are formed primarily in developed countries with strong civic institutions. But gradually this process extends to developing states.
Ethical consumers often include in the core of their most important life principles the values of "supra-individual nature": the well-being of all people and nature, pride in their country, its power and prosperity.
Electronic communication between teachers and students can be helpful, but the line can become blurred between business and personal. Keep electronic communications professional, and warn students of the dangers of thinking that their emails and text messages are personal. Especially when using school or business email systems, these types of communications can easily be made public.
I think ethics in information technology is important because it creates a culture of trust, responsibility, integrity and excellence in the use of resources. Ethics also promotes privacy, confidentiality of information and unauthorized access to computer networks, helping to prevent conflict and dishonesty.
It is responsible for the importance of ethics among IT professionals to ensure that computer technology is not misused in ways that can harm people, the environment and society. They can contribute better to an organization with the employee's ethics directly.
Yes, I agree. Ethical use of technology is important. For example, I can reduce the fuel consumption of a cars significantly by using a substance that have a very dangerous for human health, it can make cancer for human body.The cost of the substance is very cheap. But I dont want to implement it although I will get much money if I make it as a business....