1. 2.8 Factors affecting the use of ICT

3.  Cultural
 Economic
 Environmental
 Ethical
 Legal
 Social
 Go to this Linoit page and add issues related
to the appropriate factors
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4.  ICT influences the way we interact
 Some jobs now lack personal contact that employment used to
offer (e.g. ATM’s, Teleworking)
 On the other online communities have allowed for new
friendships to develop
 Cultural material has changed
◦ Music, artwork, pictures, video are now available on mass (youtube,
myspace)
◦ Worldwide audience now for atists to express and promote themselves
◦ Celebrities and political figures can now express themselves directly to the
public (no middle media) through blogging (wordpress), micro-blogging
(Twitter) and social networks (Facebook)
 Social networking, blogging and micro-blogging has had a huge
impact on

5.  How do companies benefit (financially) from
the use of ICT?
◦ Increased productivity
◦ Global market (on-line presence)
◦ Reduced costs
 ICT can provide competitive advantage to
companies but also hinder those less
fortunate…..discuss.
 Digital Divide, those that can afford ICT and
those that can’t

6.  Green computing what’s it all about?
◦ Designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of
hardware effectively with minimal or no impact on the
environment.
◦ Designing and using software also
(http://www.blackle.com/)
 Effects of Teleworking
◦ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
 The 3 R’s
◦ Reduce (paper, ink and other consumables)
◦ Reuse (donate hardware rather than dispose)
◦ Recycle

7.  Ethics in business
◦ Wasting of company time
◦ Auditing of staff internet usage
 Ethics in Education
◦ Teachers adding students or parents as friends on social network
sites
◦ Computer access for those that can afford (digital divide) does
this give those students an advantage over others
 Ethics in Society
◦ ‘internet is unregulated’ good or bad?
 Should sites be policed?
 If so by whom?
 Who should have the power of censorship?
◦ Laws are different in different countries

8.  Impacts most organisations
 Requires procedures to be followed
 Will have a financial impact on organisations
◦ Security
◦ Managing
◦ Failure to manage
◦ Training

9.  Teleworking
◦ Family workers
◦ Isolation
◦ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
 Employment
◦ Potentially less jobs available
◦ Shift in skills required in the work place
 Leisure
◦ New online leisure activities e.g. gaming
 Communication
◦ New means
◦ Smaller world
◦ Improved speed of
◦ Collaboration
 Consequences
◦ Recluse
◦ Interpersonal skills
◦ Over dependence
◦ Addiction
◦ Overload of information
 Reliability