Environmental
Issues
1. Electronic Garbage
Plastic –
Natural recycling process takes a long time. Destroying is also difficult (when
we burn it will emit some harmful gases to the environment).
Metals – Can
be recycles easily. But cannot be done in the home environment
Heavy Metals
– Harmful for plant and animal health
2. Sound pollution, Air Pollution, Water
Pollution and Soil Pollution due to ICT equipment manufacturing companies.
3. Heat and rays generated by the
machines will be harmful to the environment and to the human body.
4. Another indirect issue is neglecting
the environment
Economical
Issues
1. Hacking, altering of information,
Misleading, Defamation,
like things can be easily happened in the online environment. This may damage
valuable economic assets such as
a. information(one of the most valuable
economic assets)
b. physical equipments
c. intangible properties such as
company/organization goodwill
d. other company properties and people
2. Information disclosure –
Information is one of the most valuable assets in the world. Individuals
and companies keep most of the internal information secure from external
parties (ex: trade secrets). Revealing of these facts may initiate massive
economic damages to those companies and individuals.
For an example revealing a secret recipe of a food production company may
lead to bankrupt that company.
3. Pirated copies of software, movies,
and other electronic resources or electronic versions of non-electronic
components. Intellectual properties
(creations done with an effort which involves the brain) such as Songs, Videos,
Pictures, Arts, Software, Books and documents are created with some effort.
Therefore creator or owner has an implicit right (this may also known as
copyright) to restrict unauthorized copying of such things. This will be an issue
for the seller/producer in both ethical and economical way.
4. Phishing – get sensitive information
through a trap such as credit card details/bank details
Legal
Issues
1. Pornography
2. Hacking
3. Mal-ware (Attacks through viruses,
worms, Trojans, hoaxes)
4. Information disclosure
5. Privacy and copyright violations
6. Piracy
# Digital
divide and Digital Bridge
Digital
divide separates society in to two parties.
1. People who know ICT
2. People who are unaware about ICT
IT people
might use their skills in an unethical way against non-IT people which is due
to digital divide. We can make it into a
single group by giving IT awareness to non-IT people which is called digital
bridge.
