Course details
Community and Information Technology
ISI Acad. year 2005/2006 Summer semester 3 credits
The course concentrates on current questions and problems related to IT from the community point of view. Topics like importance and value of information and the processing methods during the times, basics of ethic and selected ethical problems related especially to IT, impacts of IT on society and the influence of the society on IT, current laws related to IT profession, and new areas opened by IT progress not sufficiently covered by laws yet are discussed on the lectures. This course extends the offer of social science courses.
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Time span
- 26 hrs lectures
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Basic knowledge of current laws related to IT profession will be given to the students.
Students learn to think about consequences of using IT.
Learning objectives
To analyze and to discuss consequences and potential risks of using IT. To give students basic knowledge about Czech laws related to IT.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No prerequisity knowledge is expected.
Syllabus of lectures
- Importance and processing of information during time
- Ethics in practice - software engineering code of ethics and professional practice
- Potential risks of using IT - on environment, on user's health, economical and psychosocial consequences of IT (social institutions, public control, individuality)
- IT and government - SIKP
- IT, media and policy (ideology, advertisement, democracy, ...)
- Projection of the movie Brazil
- Computer crimes
- Electronic signature law
- Authors law
- Protection of personal data law
- Lecture of an IT lawyer followed by discussion
- SW licences, copyright, patent, total cost of ownership, final test
- Presentation of selected student's essays
Progress assessment
Student have to visit at least 80% of the lectures, writing an essay on the topic related to the course, and passing final test.
Controlled instruction
Student have to visit at least 80% of the lectures. Lecturer can excuse this rule in cases like provable illness and, instead of it, assign an additional homework to the student.