Developing a Personal Code of Ethics for Information Technology

Being a non-traditional student, I have the opportunity to attend school while also pursuing a career in Information Technology (IT). Within the field of IT there are many avenues to explore ethics depending on the type of business that is being supported, or what the technical specialty may be. For instance, if the business operates in a medical environment that treats patients, there are privacy concerns, and ethical standards that must be followed. The same can be said for the financial community, and education. While the breadth of Information Technology and the available specializations are vast, perhaps even more impressive are the amount of trust and ethical burden placed on the Information Technology professional.

Being a non-traditional student I have the opportunity to attend school while also pursuing a career in Information Technology (IT). Within the field of IT there are many avenues to explore ethics depending on the type of business that is being supported, or what the technical speciality may be. For instance, if the business operates in medical environment that treats patients, there are privacy concerns, and ethical standards that must be followed. The same can be said for the financial community, and education. While the breadth of Information Technology and the available specializations are vast, perhaps even more impressive is the amount of trust and ethical burden placed on the Information Technology professional.

Preamble: Pharmacists must commit to the well-being of their patients. Patients have the right to receive the best health care possible, and I, as a pharmacist shall make this the top priority. Disclosed in this letter, are the code of ethics that will govern pharmacists to practice in the interests of their patients.

Individuals need to keep their moral compass and clearly realize about the relationship between technology and ethics, even though technology can advance their lives. As the

As the utilization of PCs and the web turns out to be more predominant, moral issues identified with PC use will keep on making a bigger effect on individuals' lives and the way that society capacities. PC morals include the ethical standards and behavioral rules related to the path in which people, associations, and society all in all utilization PCs and data innovation. A few cases of moral issues identified with PC utilize incorporate individual data protection, PC security, wholesale fraud, licensed innovation, level with access to data and so on.

Over the last several years, the issue of IT ethics has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is because of transformations occurring through rapid advancements and the way various applications are utilized. To fully understand what is taking place requires conducting an annotated bibliography on the subject and the impact it is having on these standards. These findings will highlight the overall scope of the challenges and the long term effects they are having on stakeholders.

Ethical use of technology is something not only our homes should adopt but the classrooms and any other place, we intend to make use of the scientific achievements. The question arises as to why ethics have so much importance in every aspect of life. It is the ethics, which tell us how one thing has to be done and how we should do one thing (Petrina, 2007). This statement appears to be similar however, two meanings have. Technology's usage should be defined in terms of its ethical issues and as its users; we should know how we are supposed to use it to prevent it from exploitation. Similarly, inside a classroom it is important that the way students handle technology, freed from exploitation, students must handle the way technology, and teachers fulfill the ethical requirements. Access to any material not owned by the student or the teacher may have some copyright issues and that is where implementation of ethics comes foremost. The usage of such materials can be made legitimate if only the credits for the work done are given by acknowledging the writer or the designer. Other than this, ethical issues also revolve around usage of inappropriate content by students. This has been the major issue of all time and several methods can be implemented to refrain students form usage of inappropriate content or provide them protection against usage of harmful content available on the World Wide Web. Technological usage has

The advancement of technology within the past few decades have brought a revolution in the workplace. Technology has had profound impacts on work ethics because of the advancement of technology. Work ethics standards differ from person to person; open to interpretation. According to Amelia Jenkins of Small Business Chronicle, “A work ethic is a set of moral principles an employee uses in his job. Certain factors come together to create a strong work ethic”(Jenkins, 2011).

In an effort to develop a viable privacy culture within the organization, the first step to achieve the enhancement of a culture of privacy protection within the department would be to develop a code of conduct. Based on the reality that such a code, usually referred to as a code of ethics is seen to be the basis of any ethics program it would only be prudent to institute the development of the same as a starting point. Such a code of conduct should be developed in such a manner as to be able to address previous unethical conducts within the department as well as project into the future so as to prevent future acts that would be unethical. However, for such a policy to take root, its development should be instituted by all stakeholders for

Technology in the classroom is important to assist in the learning process; however this is creating new challenges for teachers. Teachers are now required to educate students on the importance of technology ethics. Computer ethics is the moral guidelines that govern the use of computers and networks (Shelly, G, Gunter, G, and Gunter, R 2012). Ethics in the classroom also requires teachers to explain what plagiarism is and the proper way for students to give credit for information attained from another source. Teachers must also have a plan in place to address internet security, as well as devise a student use agreement and discuss ethical practices while using technology in the classroom.

In the early years of computers and computerized technology, computer engineers had to believe that their contribution to the development of computer technology would produce positive impacts on the people that would use it. During the infancy of computer technology, ethical issues concerning computer technology were almost nonexistent because computers back then were not as multifaceted as they are today. However, ethical issues relating to computer technology and cyber technology is undeniable in today’s society. Computer technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of our daily lives. Different forms of computer technology provide unique functionalities that allow people to perform daily activities effectively and efficiently. In

Ethics is one of the fundamental building blocks for all organizations. Specifically, information ethics directly relates to Management Information Systems. Information ethics includes the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies. This also includes the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself with the aid of computer technologies. This paper will focus on the illegal duplication and distribution of software.

IT Professional is a publication (Keith W. Miller 2009), it is such like book publication, it also has copyright problem, plagiarism problem, and many problems like book publication, so, to be the Professionals, they must act like the book authors to solve these problems. In aspects of IT, the side of ethical problems are including advice on how professionals can recognize, analyze, and make judgments on challenging questions about right, wrong, and computing. Computers have become essential tools of modern humans, regardless life, entertainment, education, work, and business are related with computer. Computer impact on human society very much. So knowing the Information Technology Ethics is very important to everyone, because it is useful to everyone who lives in this

Among the many are plagiarism, piracy, hacking, viruses, and computer crime and so on. All these pose great debate to the field of information technology on whether what's wrong and right. So, the academic institutions must provide the syllabus about the Ethic in Information System/ Technology.

It is generally said that Information and Communication Technology Company should follow the computing ethics. In fact, how the actual company apply for its ethics in their business. So, the specified company will be selected to verify the process. I choose Japanese company, FUJITSU.