Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT

  Ethics and IT In the last post, I need to write about one of the online codes of ethics for IT. I chose to write about ITP mandatory code of ethics. Well, mostly just copy-paste the official info. The Institute of IT Professionals New Zealand Incorporated (ITP), a non-profit association of IT professionals in New Zealand. In order to obtain membership status, one must agree to the company's code of ethics.  The full Code of Ethics is made up of three components: The code itself, made up of the 8 Tenets Guidelines and Interpretation, to assist in interpretation of the Code Breaches and Disciplinary Process, defined within the IITP Bylaws The 8 Tenets: Good faith - Members shall treat people with dignity, good faith and equality, without discrimination; Integrity - Members shall act in the execution of their profession with integrity, dignity and honors to merit the trust of the community and the profession, and apply honesty, skill, judgement and initiative to contribute positiv

  Trolling I am a kind, shy and naive boy. In other words - perfect target for trolling and cyberbullying. It's hard to imagine how cruel people can be, until you see it. And I see a lot of it Good thing - I am not “live” in the internet (not counting self-isolation period) and I am sort of easygoing, so I don't really care about idiots. But it still sometimes hurts me. I really fear for people who cannot be so easy about it. It's a real problem and we should fight with it. If we speak about the three components of Mitnick's formula - technology, training, rules - I am not sure that technology can be used to fight with it (if they are not going too far and not try to hack you). But training and rules can be very useful.  I already think that it's useless to try to educate trolls and bullies. We will never see their extinction. It means that people should be trained how to deal with them and rules about communication on the internet should be taught. People should kn