Social Issues of Information System

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Societal Issue Related to IS Design Use.

• Submitted To
• (Sir Inam Ul Haq )
• Submitter By
• Mehwish Iftikhar (1057)
• Yusra Karim (1053)
• Quresha Akram (1044)
• Gulshen Shakila (1045)
• BS (Hons.) I.T Morning

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Contents

• What is information system
• Societal Issue of Is design and Implication
• Information Pollution
• Societal or Ethical Hacking
• Summary of Societal Issue
• How to solve these issues

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Introduction

• Information societal has been defined as the
  branch of Societal that focuses on the
  relationship between the creation,
  organization, dissemination, and use of
  information, and the societal standards and
  moral codes governing human conduct in
  society.
• It provides a critical frameworks for
  considering moral issues concerning
  information privacy, moral agency (e.g. whether
  artificial agents may be moral), new
  environmental issues (especially how agents
  should behave in the ionosphere), problems
  arising from the life cycle (creation,
  collection, recording , distribution, processing
  etc.

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Social Implications

• Societal Issue
• Information Pollution
• Societal or Ethical Hacking
• Summary of Societal Issue

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Social Issue of IS

• Social issues are matters of concern to
  governments and the community. They reflect
  aspects of society, its people and institutions
  that people want to, and can, do something about.
• In terms of IPT, Social issues include
• The cost to the community of switching to
  computer-based systems
• The potential for society to divide on the basis
  of the "information rich" and the "information
  poor"
• Increased "white collar crime" such as Internet
  fraud and identity theft.

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Information Pollution

• Information pollution is the contamination of
  information supply with irrelevant, redundant,
  unsolicited and low-value information. The spread
  of useless and undesirable information can have a
  detrimental effect on human activities. It is
  considered one of the adverse effects of the
  information revolution.

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Societal Ethical Hacking

• Social engineering, in the context of information
  security, refers to psychological manipulation of
  people into performing actions or divulging
  confidential information. A type of confidence
  trick for the purpose of information gathering,
  fraud, or system access, it differs from a
  traditional "con" in that it is often one of many
  steps in a more complex fraud scheme.

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Summary of Societal Issue

• Privacy of the individual
• Accuracy of data and information
• Changing nature of work
• Appropriate information use
• Copyright laws
• Collecting
• Organizing
• Analysis
• Storing/Retrieving
• Processing
• Transmitting Receiving
• Displaying
• Planning, Design Implementation

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Reference

• http//www.grcoatley.mcc.education.nsw.gov.au/ipt_
  website/12_social_implications/social_implications
  .htm
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems
• http//galletta.business.pitt.edu/amcis2003/05ITMG
  T8_SocialIssues.htm
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution?
• http//www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/csajaykr/ESI.pdf