Introduction to Professional Issues in IT:
- Terminologies and definitions in Professional issues
- Data
- Information
- Knowledge
- Data sources and users
Profession and professional issues:
- What is a profession?
- Role of IT professionals
- Characteristics of professionals, competencies and their core requirements in job matching
Current ethical issues:
- What is ethics?
- Privacy
- Pornography
- Security
- Computer crime
- Internet and law
- Roles of IT professionals in ethical issues
International issues in IT:
- Copy right
- Trade rights
- Patent rights
- services
- Telelworking
- Safety issues in IT
- Ethics
- Code of ethics
- Lecturer: GLORIA MWENDE