AUTHOR Maria Karyda, Spyros Kokolakis and Evangelos Kiountouzis ABSTRACT Within the past decade organizations have realized the need to protect their Information Systems (IS) and thus allocate significant resources to this endeavor. However, protecting an IS in the context of an organization is far from a trivial task and needs to be addressed in a […]
AUTHOR Kristen MJ Johnson ABSTRACT The Internet first arrived in Japan in 1984 as a research network between three Japanese universities. Non-academic use in private and commercial functions slowly began to emerge nine years later (Gottlieb & McLelland 2003). In little over twenty years, it has seen profound effects in not only Japan but also […]
AUTHOR Deborah G. Johnson and Thomas M. Powers ABSTRACT Computer ethicists have been intrigued by the idea that computers might develop to a point at which they have intelligence of a kind that would justify treating them as moral agents, both in the sense that we would be reluctant to turn them off and in […]
AUTHOR Pat Jefferies, Frances Grodzinsky and Joe Griffin ABSTRACT The development of on-line learning communities across international boundaries is now a viable proposition using available asynchronous technologies. As has been reported in previous papers (Grodzinsky, Griffin & Jefferies, 2003; Griffin, Grodzinsky & Jefferies, 2003) such use has proved to be extremely valuable for supporting the […]
AUTHOR Richard Howley, Simon Rogerson, N Ben Fairweather and Lawrence Pratchett ABSTRACT Introduction The importance of privacy and data protection (PDP) is now well established as a right for European citizens. This presents significant challenges to data controllers and information systems professionals. The role of information systems (IS) staff has emerged as critical in meeting […]
AUTHOR David S. Horner ABSTRACT Computer Ethics has, as one of its aspirations, that of reducing the probability of the unforeseen and undesirable effects of computer technologies (Rogerson, 2002). The social control of information and communication technology, it is argued, depends on our ability precisely to foresee such undesirable and often unintended effects. We should […]