[LINK] Regulation in the ICT Industry

[Tom Worthington]

After the plenary sessions, the ACS Canberra Branch conference 
shifted gears, with parallel sessions about the nature of the IT 
industry and profession. 
<http://www.acs.org.au/act/2008conference/speakers.cfm?tab=2#richardLucas>Richard 
Lucas  talked about research conducted into the views of ICT people 
about the profession, regulation and ethics. One issue was that there 
are so many groups involved in the ICT industry that there was not a 
level of regulation as might apply in other professions. The 
Government was not seen to be the way to regulate the industry, with 
ICT people wary of such control.

Richard presented a relatively bleak picture, with little recognition 
of professionalism and little obvious enforcement of ethical 
standards. However, Richard mentioned they are working on ways to 
help ICT professionals do the right thing, rather than externally 
forcing them to.

Previous research in the area is in the ACS's magazine: Ethics 
survey: haste sours quality in ICT, Richard Lucas, Information Age, 
17/06/2007 12:22:16, URL: 
<http://www.infoage.idg.com.au/index.php?id=1393919922>.

After lunch 
<http://www.acs.org.au/act/2008conference/speakers.cfm?tab=2#annSteward>Ann 
Steward, Australian Government Chief Information Officer, is talking 
about ICT in the government sector.

More in my Blog: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/labels/ACS%20Canberra%20Conference.html>.



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