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Author Weckert, John, author.

Title Professionalism in the information and communication technology industry / John Weckert, Richard Lucas
Published Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 380 pages) : color illustrations
Series Practical ethics and public policy ; monograph 3
Practical ethics and public policy ; monograph 3.
Contents Introduction -- Section I. Regulating technology : On the need for professionalism in the ICT industry -- 1. The fundamental problem of regulating technology -- Section II. Practitioners' perspectives : An initiation into ICT professionalism -- 2. The maturing of a profession -- 3. Some ethical imperatives for the computing profession -- 4. The uncertainty of ethics in IT -- Section III. Professionalism : Professions, professionals, and professionalism -- 5. What is an ICT professional anyway? -- 6. ICT is not a profession: So what? -- 7. Being a good computer professional: The advantages of virtue ethics in computing -- 8. Informed consent in information technology: Improving end user license agreements -- Section IV. ICT governance : What is good governance? -- 9. Virtuous IT governance: IT governors can't be virtuous -- 10. The decision disconnect -- Section V. Ethics education : The place of ethics in ICT courses -- 11. Educating for professionalism in ICT: Is learning ethics professional development? -- 12. Experiential ethics education for IT professionals -- Section VI. Codes of ethics : Are codes of ethics useful? -- 13. ICT governance and what to do about the toothless tiger(s): Professional organisations and codes of ethics -- 14. Business benefits from keeping codes of ethics up to date -- Section VII. ICT and society : Ethics first or ethics last? -- 15. Ethical issues of emerging ICT applications--a Euro landscape -- 16. Ethical issue determination, normativity and contextual blindness: Epistemological studies of the limits of formalism in ethics and their consequences for the theory of governance
Summary Professionalism is arguably more important in some occupations than in others. It is vital in some because of the life and death decisions that must be made, for example in medicine. In others the rapidly changing nature of the occupation makes efficient regulation difficult and so the professional behaviour of the practitioners is central to the good functioning of that occupation. The core idea behind this book is that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is changing so quickly that professional behaviour of its practitioners is vital because regulation will always lag behind
Analysis Australian
Notes Series Editor: Michael J. Selgelid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Selected for archiving ANL
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2019)
Subject Information technology -- Employees -- Professional ethics
Telecommunication -- Employees -- Professional ethics
Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Employees -- Attitudes.
Computing and information technology.
Ethical and social aspects of IT Mod Ethical and social aspects of IT.
Information technology: general issues Mod Information technology: general issues.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Employees -- Attitudes
Form Electronic book
Author Lucas, Richard, 1952- author.
Selgelid, Michael J., editor
ISBN 1922144444
9781922144447