[LINK] Professional Ethics and Social Issues in Networked Information Systems

[Tom Worthington]

I would welcome any comments, corrections, or additions for my lecture 
on "Professional Ethics and Social Issues in Networked Information 
Systems", in the course Networked Information Systems 
(COMP2410/COMP6340) at the Australian
National University: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/professional_ethics/>.

In this I discuss:

* ACS Code of Ethics, as that is the one I am most familiar with,
* Government Certification of Professionals, under Professional 
Standards Legislation, coordinated by the Standing Committee of 
Attorneys General,
* Guidelines for Expert Witnesses, in the Federal Court of Australia,
* The example of the Australian Parliament's Hansard as search-able web 
content: what happens if the government tells you to change history?
* The Design of Emergency Warning Systems: Can the Internet be used to 
issue direct warnings to the general public?


-- 
Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre: http://bit.ly/csiro_ict_canberra