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Administration: Quiz 5, Grades, Final, Extra Credit, Bagels, Orange Juice

Get updates on Quiz 5, check grades, see who will take the final, submit extra credit, and find out about upcoming events such as bagels and orange juice. Plus, recap of Assignment 4 and discussion on ethics and e-government.

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Administration: Quiz 5, Grades, Final, Extra Credit, Bagels, Orange Juice

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  1. Administration • Quiz 5 is up on the class Web site! • Look at grades (“Quiz average”), let me know who will take the final in Quiz 5 • Missing anything • Extra credit due Wednesday before class. • Bagels and orange juice tomorrow! • Assignment 5 … out of time! Free 10%

  2. Administration • What we have left? • Quiz 5 • Final (optional) • Participation grade (I determine this) • New participation grade (We both determine this) • Today we are going to hit several important points: • Ethics, e-Government, Networking

  3. Assignment 4 Recap • Please create an event table, context diagram, and DFD fragments for the following system. • Many high-tech art galleries use iPads to assist visitors on self-guided tours. Visitors can walk through a gallery, point the iPad at a painting, and then the iPad will automatically display information about the painting (such as date created, description, artist name, etc.) The University Art Gallery would like to provide their visitors with this functionality, and have asked you to design a custom iPad app. The app needs the following functionality:

  4. Assignment 4 Recap • Administrators can upload “painting information and images” to the app. This information is processed by the app and then stored in a “painting database”. • Visitors can comment on paintings using the app. Visitors submit a comment and then the system will automatically associate the comment with a picture and store it in a “comment database”. • Other Art Galleries can purchase a digital copy of a painting. They input what painting they want to purchase into the app, the app then retrieves the painting from the “painting database”, and then sends an email with the digital painting back to the Art Gallery.

  5. I talk about what the minimum requirements are…

  6. Today’s Learning Objectives • List a few current events in information systems news • Create an event table, context diagram, and DFD fragment • Discuss ethical considerations in IT • Explain how to protect your privacy online • Compare and contrast different types of e-government • Describe two forms of e-government that are relevant to you. • Diagram how the internet works

  7. Ethics

  8. What is Ethics? The principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors.

  9. Ethics vs. Legality Something that is unethical is not necessarily illegal.

  10. General Ethical Categories • Privacy Issues – what kinds of data should and should not be stored about individuals? • Accuracy Issues – is the information collected authentic and accurate? • Property Issues – who owns the information and how is it valued? • Accessibility Issues – who should have access to information? Should they pay for it?

  11. Threats to Privacy • Data aggregators, digital dossiers, and profiling • Electronic Surveillance • Personal Information in Databases • Information on Internet Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites

  12. Data Aggregators, Digital Dossiers, and Profiling

  13. Electronic Surveillance

  14. IT Ethics: Privacy http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf

  15. Personal Information in Databases • Banks • Utility companies • Government agencies • Credit reporting agencies

  16. Information on Internet Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites

  17. “Family Emergency”

  18. Social Networking Sites Can Cause You Problems Anyone can post derogatory information about you anonymously. Depending upon your privacy settings, most anyone can locate your personal information. Do you leave your full birth date on Facebook?

  19. The bad: http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/06/20/now-your-embarrassingjob-threatening-facebook-photos-will-haunt-you-for-seven-years/ • The good?

  20. What Can You Do? First, be careful what information you post on social networking sites. Second, a company, ReputationDefender, says it can remove derogatory information from the Web.

  21. MIS 111: Computers and the Inter-networked Society Class 5: E-Government August 8th, 2011

  22. E-Government • Government-to-citizen (G2C) • Examples include tax filing, driver’s license renewal, permits, licenses, etc. • Government-to-government (G2G) • Examples include child support filing, criminal offender information, Homeland Security reporting, etc. • Government-to-business (G2B) • Examples include tax filing, obtaining permits • Government-to-employee (G2E) or Intra-Governmental • Efficiency and Effectiveness (IEE) • Examples include intranets and employee portals

  23. Phases of E-Government • 1. Publish • Canada has one of the best portals for governmental info in the world • 2. Interact • Nambian Parliament allows people to participate in political discussions through its website • 3. Transact • Vietnamese website offers one-stop shopping for businesses and investors seeking to obtain government licenses

  24. Changing Expectations for Citizens • 1997 • Email 2% • Web 1% • 97% Phone/In Person • 2002 • Email 30% • Web 56% • Cross Channel 9% • Phone/In Person 5%

  25. E-Gov Strategy Report, 2002 • An effective E-Government strategy will result in… • Simplifying delivery of services to citizens; • Eliminating layers of government management; • Simplifying agencies' business processes and reducing costs through integrating and eliminating systems; • Streamlining government operations to guarantee rapid response to citizen needs. • … reduced calls and visits to government offices thus increasing the value of those services that must still be made available in that way. • …better evidence-based policymaking.

  26. Filing Taxes Online

  27. IRS.gov • Usability rating? • Should online services be easier to use than those in the physical world? • Does IRS.gov live up to the 2002 guidelines?

  28. 3rd Party Software? • http://turbotax.intuit.com/ • Lots of others

  29. E-Verify Debate

  30. E-Verify • What is E-Verify? • Should its use be enforced? • Blue – no action • Orange – recommended • Red – passed

  31. Medical Records Required… • Congress included a formula of both incentives (up to $44K per physician under Medicare or up to $65K over 6 years, under Medicaid) and penalties (i.e. decreased Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements for covered patients to doctors who fail to use EMR's by 2015) for EMR/EHR adoption versus continued use of paper records as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[3]

  32. Why? • Pros • Cons • Should this be mandated? • What will the proposed database do, and what are its intended benefits? • Do you agree or disagree with the proposed database? • What are the consequences of creating such a database?

  33. Increase efficiency? • Decrease errors? • Privacy, theft?

  34. What will be next?

  35. E-Government, friend or foe? • Designed to build trust in the people • Should we take the information provided at face value? • Designed to encourage the people’s participation • Can e-government remove the boundaries between the people and the government completely?

  36. COPLINK: Gov. Information Sharing • Developed by the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona (Hsinchun Chen) • Provides police officers with criminal information – names, descriptions, weapons, locations, vehicles, etc. • Shared across departments for effectiveness

  37. COPLINK

  38. Networking: how does the internet work • Scenario: You order a lot of items on Amazon. What is the process of getting those items to you? • Post office • Mail box • Address • Multiple packages?

  39. Networking

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