Political, social and ethical issues

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Technology can be a binary-edged, thus it can either be a beginning of many benefits as well as a new source for invading into ones privacy, and allowing the uncontrolled use of information in a range of decisions about a person. Information systems advancement involves Ethical, political and social relationship. This makes one to have ethical understanding on the vitality of the information. Any legal and ethical decisions are essential to stabilize the rights and needs of everyone. Ethics are moral decisions made by entities in relation to the community, system governing members of a business and standards of suitable behavior. The extensive issues of electronic information systems are such as accessing and controlling of data, global considerations as well as misuse and privacy of information. All of these broaden to electronic databases, electronic networks, and to geographic data systems.

The ethical problem a manager may face in information systems is reflected generally in political and social debate. The Moral scope Of Information Age has the following dimensions (Clarke, 2010). Information obligations and rights thus the information rights that the organizations and entities have with respect to themselves and what they can protect. Property obligations and rights thus on the intellectual right of property to be protected in a digital society where accounting and tracing for ownership is difficult and ignorance of the property rights is easy. Moreover, the standards of system and data quality that protects individual rights as well as the society’s safeties hence preserving the values considered vital to the quality of life.

Ethical issues can have the most adverse effect on a business if not well managed. The essential concepts of Ethics in information society include: Accountability, Liability and Responsibility. Ethical decisions are made by individuals responsible for the consequences of their actions. Responsibility is the main aspect and it shows that one accepts the prospective duties, costs, Accountability is an attribute of social organizations and systems and the means in which mechanisms are placed in determining who is responsible and who took the responsible action. Liability is an aspect of political systems whereby a governing body is in position that permits individuals to recover from the damages they have occurred from other systems, actors, and organizations and obligations for the decisions one makes (Clarke, 2010).

Information systems bring about confounding ethical problems posed by internet to the intellectual and privacy of property. Information systems bring about the rise of ethical questions for the society and individuals since they make opportunities for powerful social change, and therefore threaten the accessible distributions of rights, money, obligations and power. Moreover, new crimes are committed and social values are threatened. The advancement of information technology brings about benefits to many and costs to others (Salehnia, 2002).

The development of information economy and internet implies that all the social and ethical described above shall be more heightened as the world continues to move into digital century.

The diagram shows the Relationship Between political, social and Ethical issues within an information society (Salehnia, 2002).

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Clarke, P. (2010). Management Information Systems. (1st ed., Vol. chapter 4). United States of America: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from http://gimpamis.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/chapter4.pdf

Salehnia, A. (2002). Ethical issues of information systems. (pp. 201-230). United States of America: idea Group Inc.