Human Choice and Computers

by Brunnstein, Klaus; Berleur, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9781402071850
• ISBN10: 140207185X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780387356099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
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Summary

The developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are not always continuous but may be influenced and shaped by unforeseen events and are therefore difficult to predict and control. This applies especially to the impacts of September 11 (2001) events on how ICT is used in economic and public applications. But even under pressures of terrorist actions, it is essential that Human Choice dominate how Information and Communication Technologies are shaped, applied and used. Human Choice and Computers: Issues of Choice and Quality of Life in the Information Society presents different views about how terrorist actions are influencing political and social discussions and decisions, and it covers questions related to legitimacy and power in the Information Society. Ethical principles are important guidelines for responsible behavior of IT professionals. But even under strong external pressure, long ranging aspects such as education and the roles of developing countries in the Information Society are important to discuss, especially to enable all to actively participate in information processes. The topics covered in this book include: Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life; Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society; Responsibility of IT Professionals; Legitimacy, Legality and Power in the Information Society; Roles of Developing Countries in the Information Society; Education and Social Impact; History of Computing; New Horizons of the Information Society; UNESCO Panels: "Information for All" and "Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace". This volume contains the edited proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC-6), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in conjunction with the 17th IFIP World Computer Congress in Montreacute;al, Queacute;bec, Canada in August 2002. As with the five preceding conferences, starting with HCC-1 in 1974, IFIP's Technical Committee 9 has continued to set the agenda for human choices and human actions vis-agrave;-vis computers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xi
Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life #1
Critical Professional Discourses About Information and Communications Technologies and Social Life in the U.S.	1	(20)
Rob Kling
Does the Internet Promote Democracy?	21	(10)
C. C. Gotlieb
Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life #2
Theoretical Perspective on the Interplay Between ICT and Quality of Life	31	(12)
Gunilla Bradley
Using Technology to Help the Citizen Enrollment	43	(12)
Marcos Clayton Pessoa
Joaquim Celestino Jr
Sandra Maciel Barreto
Jose Carvalho Filho Jr
Information and Communication Technology and the Home Environment	55	(6)
Andy Sloane
History of Computing
Some Great Myths of the History of Computing	61	(16)
J.A.N Lee
Roots of Computing in Austria -- Contributions of the IBM Vienna Laboratory and Changes of Paradigms and Priorities in Information Technology	77	(12)
Kurt Walk
Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society #1
Self-regulation: Content, Legitimacy and Efficiency -- Governance and Ethics	89	(20)
Jacques Berleur
Tanguy Ewbank de Wespin
Trust, Corruption, and Surveillance in the Electronic Workplace	109	(12)
John Weckert
Ethics and Learning - From State Regulation towards Reflexive Self Regulation of the Information Society	121	(10)
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society #2
Computer Augmented Research and Scientific Misconduct	131	(16)
Wolfgang Coy
The Security Aspect of Information Society as a Global Biocultural System	147	(16)
Laszlo Z. Karvalics
Choice and Responsibility: The Delegation of Decision Making to Intelligent Software Agents	163	(8)
Carolyn Dowling
Paul Nicholson
Responsibility of IT Professionals
Responsibility and the Work of IT-Professionals: From Academia to Practice	171	(12)
Peter Bittner
Eva Hornecker
Legitimacy, Legality and Power in the Information Society: September 11 Fallout: Social Implications of Terrorist Attacks
Is the Enemy Us? - New Threats to Privacy, Freedom of Information and Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism	183	(12)
Richard S. Rosenberg
National Identification Schemes (Nids): A Remedy Against Terrorist Attack?	195	(12)
Andrew Clement
Robert Guerra
Jeff Johnson
Felix Stalder
A Classification of Biometric Applications Wanted by Politics: Passports, Person Tracking and Fight Against Terror	207	(14)
Arslan Broemme
Panel Discussion
Preventing Privacy Attacks and CyberCrime in the Mobile Internet?	221	(4)
Simone Fischer-Huebner
Alberto Escudero Pascual
Helena Lindskog
Roles of Developing Countries in the Information Society
Towards a Framework for Sustainable Knowledge Management in Organisations in Developing Countries	225	(14)
Adekunle Okunoye
Adapting Global Practices Locally: A Perspective on IT Implementation in a Developing Country Context	239	(14)
Abiodun Bada
Manny Aniebonam
Vesper Owei
Technology and Learning Societies in the New Millennium (Indian Context): Content, Practice and Management	253	(12)
Mathura Prasad Thtapliyal
K. Subramanian
Education and Social Impact
Quality of Working Life, Knowledge-Intensive Work Processes and Creative Learning Organisations: Information Processing Paradigm versus Self-Organisation Theory	265	(10)
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski
Frank Fuchs-Kittowski
Understanding the Process of Information Systems and ICT Curriculum Development. Three Models	275	(8)
Arthur Tatnall
Bill Davey
Cultural Differences of Female Enrollment in Tertiary Education in Computer Science	283	(10)
Britta Schinzel
New Horizons of the Information Society
A Radical Scandinavian (``Oresundsk'') Approach to Inquiring Organizations - A Critique of ICT in Knowledge Management	293	(12)
Martina Sophia Lundin
Leif Bloch Rasmussen
Sustainable Development and the Information Society	305	(12)
Lorenz Hilty
UNESCO Panel Sessions
``Information for All'' Programme	317	(2)
Philippe Queau
Boyan Radoykov
Axel Plathe
Draft Recommendations ``Concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace'' UNESCO International Group of Experts	319	(10)
Index	329