What factors must be considered about the audience who will use or take part in the solution?
- Age
- Experience
- Expectation
- Knowledge
How must research be done to find out about the target audience?
- Interviewing
- Questionnaires
- Carrying out market research
List the key factors that must be considered when writing a presentation.
- Language used
- Length of presentation
- Multimedia used
- Interaction (ask questions, etc)
- Examples
[Remember L(emon) and LIME]
When the audience are actual users of the ICT solution, what factors must be considered?
- How skilled are the workforce (should be icon driven if not skilled)
- How old is the workforce? (if the interface is appropriate for all age ranges)
- Are any of the staff disabled? (diff. disabilities require diff. methods to allow them to interface with a computer system)
What are the illegal actions regarding software infringement?
- Make a copy and sell it or give it away
- Use software on a network or in multiple computers unless a licence has been acquired
- Use coding from a software and then passit on or sell it as your own
- Rent a copy or even an original software
- Use the copyrighted name without agreement
What is software piracy?
Software piracy is what is having to do with illegal copies of software
List methods to prevent software from being copied or stolen.
- Use product key
- Agree to licence agreement
- Hologram sticker
- CD/ DVD/ memory in drive
- Dongle plugged in USB ports
What is the FAST?
Federation Against Software Theft was set up in the UK to prosecute individuals or organizations who are involved in any copyright infringements. (There are legal penalties).
Define legal implications.
Covers the law; whether an action is punishable by law
Define moral implications.
Morality governs the private and personal interactions between people and it is usually determined by the person concerned.
Define ethical implications.
Ethics govern professional interactions, for example, codes of behaviour practiced by a society or group of people sometimes going against an individual’s own sense of morality.
Define cultural implications.
Refers to the attitudes, values and practices shared by a society or group of people.
List arguments in favour of some form of internet control.
- It would prevent illegal material on sites
- It is easy to find info with serious consequences
- It would prevent children and other vulnerable groups from undesirable
- It would stop incorrect info from being polished on websites
List arguments against some form of internet control.
- It is expensive
- Hard to enforce on a global scale
- Dangerous info with serious consequences can already be found in other sources like books, etc.
- It goes against freedom of info and speech
- There are already many laws existing that deal with offenders
- It is hard to decide what is illegal or offensive (some things are only offensive to certain people)
