AUTHOR Barbara Begier ABSTRACT A task to improve software quality is addressed to software suppliers by international quality standards. Quality characteristics of software have been considered so far in a narrow range, just from a producers point of view. An increasing role of IT products requires to take into considerations also social and public interest […]
AUTHOR J. Barrie Thompson (UK) ABSTRACT The call for papers for the conference highlights the fact that information and communication technologies (ICT) can have profound social consequences and that they have caused many organisations to change both their internal operations and the global reach of their activities. This “Transformation of Organisations in the Information Age” […]
AUTHOR Andrzej Kocikowski ABSTRACT Based on chosen aspects of the idea of software subscription as well as the Microsoft Corporation’s .NET project, the author attempts to show that monopolistic actions on the software market cause conditions for an assumption of total control over the global ICT infrastructure, which may in the future threaten society with […]
AUTHOR Jesús Díaz del Campo and Porfirio Barroso, (Spain) ABSTRACT In the information era, the power of the so-called ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) has greatly increased the responsibility of each citizen within the global society. Information professionals are not unaware of this fact. We have always defended the need to include humanistic courses, and, […]
AUTHOR Aaron Ben-Ze’ev (Israel) ABSTRACT This paper discusses the nature of emotions in online relationships. It first compares some basic features of emotions in offline and online circumstances and then examines whether emotions in online relationships are similar to those in offline relationships or whether we are witnessing the emergence of new types of emotions. […]
AUTHOR Professor Chuck Huff, St Olaf College, USA ABSTRACT No matter what career they choose, almost all of our students will spend their work lives in organizations. Our goals in teaching computer ethics to these students should be informed by what we know about how ethical computing decisions are made in organizations. Toward that end, […]