SOCIAL, PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL ISSUES How can we contribute

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SOCIAL, PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL ISSUES How can we
contribute

• to ourselves
• to our environment
• to our WORLD

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MOTIVATION

• DO WE NEED A CODE OF ETHICS?
• Greek ethikos The discipline dealing with
  what is good and bad and with moral duty and
  obligation
• PROFESSIONAL ETHICS The PRINCIPLES of conduct
  governing an individual or a group (guiding
  philosophy).
• PURPOSE? INTERRELATEDNESS
• RULES How to interact with our environment
  (living and non-living).
• HEALTHY, HAPPY INTERACTIONS - SUCCESS

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1.1 Contribute to society and human well-being

•    This principle concerning the quality of life
  of all people affirms an obligation to protect
  fundamental human rights and to respect the
  diversity of all cultures. An essential aim of
  computing professionals is to minimize negative
  consequences of computing systems, including
  threats to health and safety. When designing or
  implementing systems, computing professionals
  must attempt to ensure that the products of their
  efforts will be used in socially responsible
  ways, will meet social needs, and will avoid
  harmful effects to health and welfare. 
• In addition to a safe social environment, human
  well-being includes a safe natural environment.
  Therefore, computing professionals who design and
  develop systems must be alert to, and make others
  aware of any potential damage to the local or
  global environment.
•   WHAT DEFINES HUMAN WELL BEING?
• WHAT IS A HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL ADULT? 

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HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

• THE 6 QUALITIES THAT MAKE A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
• MUTUAL RESPECT
• TRUST
• INTEGRITY
• HONESTY
• LOYALTY
• UNDERSTANDING

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RESPECT

• Latin respectus act of looking back
  respicere to look back
• CONSIDERATION the act of giving particular
  attention
• ESTEEM high regard
• RESPECT To consider worthy of high regard (other
  people nature environment)
• continuous and careful thought high or special
  regard for another person and/or for self
  Websters

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TRUST

• Assured reliance on the character, ability,
  strength or truth of someone or something
• Websters
• How can we create trustworthy relationships in
  our lives? e.g. at WORK
• INTEGRITY implies trustworthiness and
  incorruptibility to a degree that one is
  incapable of being false to a trust,
  responsibility (e.g. marriage, company), or
  pledge firm adherence to a code of especially
  moral values (CODE OF ETHICS)

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MAIN QULITIES OF HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

• HONESTY - fairness and straightforwardness of
  conduct adherence to the facts uprightness of
  character or action implies a refusal to lie,
  steal, or deceive in any way.
• LOYALTY - the quality or state or an instance of
  being loyal implies a faithfulness that is
  steadfast in the face of any temptation to
  renounce, desert, or betray (e.g. he valued the
  loyalty of his friends) implies strict and
  continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust,
  or duty (e.g. CODE OF ETHICS).

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UNDERSTANDING

• The effort to understand the others
  circumstances, experience, and motifs that
  determines his/her actions, behaviors, thoughts
  and beliefs.
• Results in
• ACCEPTANCE
• TOLERANCE

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TOLERANCE

• MAIN DRIVING FORCES OF RELATIONSHIPS
• FEAR
• faer sudden danger.
• Unpleasant and often strong emotion caused by
  anticipation and/or awareness of danger
• LOVE
• Latin lubere dear to please
• Unselfish, loyal ad benevolent concern for the
  good of another.
• ATTITUDE (defines our lives and WORLD)
• Dancing with Wolves (Paradigm Shift)
• SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION

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ATTITUDE What Makes or Breaks OUR WORLD

• BEHAVIOR triggered by FEAR IS CHARACTERIZED BY
  need to PROTECT from the consequences of DANGER
• VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION
• MIS-TRUST MANIPULATION
• COMPETITIVE!
• BEHAVIOR triggered by LOVE need to give
  Contribute and let others contribute to you
• TRUST HONESTY OPENNESS
• COOPERATIVE! TEAM-WORK

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ATTITUDE AS CONDUCT

• My WATCH!
• Be HERE NOW PROACTIVE!
• THEN PASSIVE (Watch the news VS. Watch with
  awareness and determination to do something about
  it!)
• WATCH YOURSELF (monitor your behavior)
• CONDUCT Principles that I use to control my
  behavior THEY GOVERN MY LIFE AND INERACTIONS
  WITH MY ENVIRONMENT

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PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCT

• OUR ATTITUDE IS DRIVEN BY OUR BELIEFS
• BELIEFS ARE ROOTED IN OUR EXPERIENCES
• CAN BE CONSCIOUSLY CHANGED!
• PRINCIPLES (Latin principium beginning)
• INITIATOR/TRIGGER for our ACTIONS
• RULE OR CODE OF CONDUCT
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  Steven R. Covey

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7 PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS

• BE PROACIVE
• BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND (goal)
• PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST (prioritize)
• THINK WIN-WIN (co-operation)
• SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
• SYNERGIZE (creative cooperation. Blend in the
  Teams purpose)
• SHARPEN THE SAW

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RESPONSIBILITY IN A TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN WORLD

• COMPUTER SCIENTISTS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS HAVE
  TREMENDOWS POWER OF INFLUENCE OVER OUR WORLDS
  DIRECTION
• ? WHAT IS PROGRESS
• (Latin go forward)
• Responsible able to answer for ones conduct
  and obligation
• ? What motivates us
• ACM PRINCIPLES CODE OF ETHICS

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TALKING BACK TO THE MACHINE

• ACM 1997 GOLDEN JUBILEE
• GURUS gave their predictions and beliefs
• Technology will continue to progress at an
  ever-increasing rate (THE MATRIX)
• Technology drives social and commercial change,
  placing technologists in a special stewardship
  (POWER and INFLUENCE ON OUR FUTURE WORLD!)

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ACM GURUS PREDICT (97)

• 3. SURPRISES WILL ABOUND (Boundaries of different
  fields collapsing into a solution).
• 4. COMPUTERS CAN AND SHOULD BE A LEVELING FORCE,
  ELIMINATING CLASS DIFFERENCIES (do not pass on
  YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!)
• 5. COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION ARE GREAT METAPHORS
  FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW THINGS WORK (e.g. Learning
  transferring information)
• 6. VIRTUAL REALITY BLURS THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN
  WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT

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RESPONSIBILITY

• GOAL CREATE (MAINTAIN?...) A HAPPY HEALTHY
  ENVIRONMENT
• INFLUENCE THE PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS
• ACM General MORAL Imperatives
• MORAL (Latin moralis custom/habit)
• relating to principles of right and wrong in
  behavior

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REDEFINE SUCCESS

• What would an alternative metrics be?
• PRINCIPLES
• Reputation (Ethics, )
• Understanding
• Negotiation, Cooperation, Collaboration
• Which are the pillars of TEAMWORK
• Purpose of our lives
• How to contribute

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VALUES IN TODAYS WORLD

• What means SUCCESS in Todays World?
• What defines our world today
• Competitiveness (scarcity-mentality
  closed-attitude selfishness)
• ? ARE THESE VALUES CONGRUENT WITH THE CONCEPT OF
  A HEALTHY ADULT
• Over-Technological Focus denies the true human
  values (compassion openness cooperation
  team-work)
• VALUES ON WHICH SUCCESS IS BASED IN OUR
  FEAR-DRIVEN WORLD ARE DESINTEGRATING OUR
  INTEGRITY, DEPRIVING US FROM THE ABILITY TO
  EXERCISE OUR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN VALUES

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BIG QUESTION

• CAN WE CHANGE THIS?
• PARADIGM SHIFT ATTITUDE
• LOVE in a world dominated by FEAR
• COOPERATIVE - COMPETITIVE
• OPENNESS - CLOSENESS
• WHICH PRINCIPLES?
• If you could contribute one verse to the world
  today, what would that verse be?...

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Self-Portrait in the Nuclear Ageby Mihaela Ulieru

• I am The Whole in The Part
• I am THAT Part that contains The Whole
• The Whole
• Of which YOU run, and run, and run
• Didnt you notice that
• Jumping from A World to another
• YOU lost The Whole?

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Self-portrait

• Collect The Rests
• Piece by Piece
• And put the Coat of Broken Dreams on
• Your Heart
• Now smile!...
• Sarcastic clowns reality
• Is all that has remained