How Dynamics of information around the world
Author: Joseph J. Trail
The dynamics of the information broadcast using the technology will bring managers to propose new policies, orders and laws regarding the regulation of actions which can affect individuals and measure the parameters that the information should have. It should design a set of ethical corporate policies for each of the moral dimensions. This was done to help individuals make the right decisions, the policy areas are:
A. – Property Rights: intellectual property, intellectual property is considered an intangible property created by individuals or corporations that are subject to protections under the law.
Secret: Any work or intellectual product developed for business purposes, provided that is not based on public domain information. The limitation of protection of trade secrets is that while virtually all software programs which use complex containing unique elements of some kind, it is difficult to prevent the ideas of the work falling into the public domain when the software is distributed widely.
Copyright: Concession granted by law to protect creators of intellectual property against copying by others for any purpose, for a period of 28 years.
Patent: A legal document that gives the holder for 17 years, an exclusive monopoly on the ideas on which an invention. It is designed to ensure that inventors of machines or new methods are rewarded for their work, while their product is widely used.
B. – Quality systems: data quality and system errors can be held responsible individuals and organizations for avoidable and foreseeable consequences if their obligation is to see and correct.
C. – formal responsibility, legal responsibility and control: The new information technologies are challenging existing laws regarding liability and social practices, to force individuals and institutions accountable for their actions.
D. Quality of life, equity, access, boundaries. The negative social costs of introducing information technologies and systems are growing along with the power of technology. Computers and information technologies can destroy valuable elements of culture and society, while providing benefits.
E. – Information Rights: Privacy and Freedom in an information society, technology and information systems threaten the privacy of individuals. For this you have to take into account ethical, social and political.
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