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TOPIC: Net Neutrality-Issues of censorship or equality of access and the digital divide - 20 views

On Mohammad post I learned how the people in Iran used Twitter in the Election of the President to bring information out to the rest of the world and organize rallies within the country. This is an...

Kim T

Obama Wades Into Internet Censorship in China Address - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    Obama went to China and talked in a Q&A session, mentioning and supporting the ability to use the internet freely. Although there are a lot of criticism and rumors, it helps to strengthen our democracy. It forces the leaders to hear their critics' opinions so that they can improve their leadership and power. The internet can be a source of information or changing point for political relations. One of the questions mentioned in the session was from a Taiwanese concerned about the views on "one-China" and weapon selling to Taiwanese by the Americans. He had found some of this information on the Internet.
Alex F

Day Trading in China a Growing Business - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A IT system would be the "New York Stock Exchange" since this is what is happening with New York and China. An issue that is raised that the citizens arent able to produce their own type of items to be shipped to exchange. The stakeholders that would be affeted in this article is Tokyo, New York, London and China. Thats because they all had contributed in the exchange.
Madeline Brownstone

Text Messages in China to Be Scanned for 'Illegal Content' - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    ""It really is quite a program to seize control of all the new forms of media, one by one," said Jeremy Goldkorn, editor and publisher of Danwei.org, an English-language Web site about the Chinese media and Internet that is currently blocked in China. "It has been a bad half year for censorship.""
Madeline Brownstone

BBC - BBC World Service Programmes - Digital Planet, 04/11/2008 - 0 views

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    ACKLING GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Last week tech companies and human rights groups launched guidelines designed to tackle censorship. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all been heavily criticised for their business strategy in countries such as China. All have signed up to the new Global Network Initiative which aims to promote privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.
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    ACKLING GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Last week tech companies and human rights groups launched guidelines designed to tackle censorship. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all been heavily criticised for their business strategy in countries such as China. All have signed up to the new Global Network Initiative which aims to promote privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC News - Opera web browser 'censors' Chinese content - 0 views

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    "Previously traffic ran over Opera servers bypassing the so-called Great Firewall of China, making the browser popular with Chinese users. "
Elisavet M

"China defends internet censorship" - 3 views

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    Chinese government refuses to fully admit the extent of internet censorship enforced within the country, expanding beyond the realm of securing internet browsing in order to prevent pornographic sites and other inappropriate or harmful content. Government officials state that political enforcement for internet censorship, does not suppress the human rights of individual expression on the internet. However, many organizations and groups do argue that Chinese efforts to regulate the data being seen is aimed upon preventing perspectives of the public to be heard through the web.
Kristin O

BBC NEWS | Business | HSBC bank 'to offshore more jobs' - 0 views

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    This article is about HSBC's pplans to keep outsorucing clerical jobs in diferent countries. This has many owrkers upset because they feel this is eliminating their jobs and putting caps on their wages. THe social and ethical issues involved are Equality of Access and Policies and Standards. There are impacts on the Bank as well. There is the economic impact, they are saving alot of money for setting up call centers they save about $20,000 - $30,000 per job it moved into the call center. There is a psycological impact the bank has to deal with and that is of their unhappy workeres in their base country. Finally there is a global impact, with more call centers the bank may be able to gain new customers in those countries. THe relevant stakeholders besides the banks are, the workers of HSBC bank, customers of the bank, politicians and media, other countries where centers are set up. This includes, India, China, Malaysia, Phillipines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The primary IT System are the call centers. This involves the use of WANs and LANs. There are also vairous ways in which call centers can be set up. They can use cloud computing or even be created virtually through the development of software as a service. The employee would only have to susbscirbe to a software that would allow them to work in the center, this makes it easier to receive updates as well.
Kim T

iTunes warning as thousands of fraudulent accounts are auctioned online - 1/7/2011 - Co... - 0 views

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    Purchasing songs, apps, movies, and etc on ITunes requires each user to have an ITunes account. Upon signing up for the account, a valid credit or paypal account must be entered to pay for any purchased items. These purchases are made using a SSL (secure socket layer) connection so that when the user sends their information to ITunes to set up an account, log in, or purchase an item, the information they are sending is encrypted.The sender is given a public key to show that he or she was the one sending the message and ITunes will get the private key. The data is encrypted using a code that will translate the data into a message incomprehensible to others if not decrypted using a private key. Once it has reached the ITunes database after being sent over the network, the private key will decode the message and proceed with the transaction.  However, the problem lies within the process of setting up an account. Many customers' itunes accounts are being hacked into and sold online to other people in China. Hackers are still able to find and intercept customers' information, such as their passwords or credit card number, and use it to sell to other people. Passwords may be too weak in some cases or authentication by the itunes store may be too weak. The issue of security is therefore involved as sensitive information can be accessed by others. The customers are affected since they are being charged for items that they are not purchasing. The company, Apple, is also affected negatively since their customers may not feel safe buying from them anymore and therefore losing business. Then there are the hackers who are benefiting in such a situation, profiting off of other people illegally.
Mohammad A

iPhone takes a trip to \"return to sender\" - 1 views

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    Chinese people wait in line for each of the new Apple iPhone releases, buy them at premium price of $600, and send it back to where it was made to get it unlocked.
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    Chinese people wait in line for each of the new Apple iPhone releases, buy them at premium price of $600, and send it back to where it was made to get it unlocked.
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    This article meets the requirements for an IT article because, to begin with, it discusses one of the main IT systems, the cellphone (a sophisticated phone such as the iPhone however). It is reliable because it comes from a new source such as the New York Times, which has a reputation of giving reliable information to its readers. The time that the article was written is as recent as can be (less than 24 hour news, meaning that it involves one of the main issues and impacts that affect society on a greater scale today). There are stakeholders involved - the people responsible for the social/ethical issue(s), the people being affected by it, and the people becoming involved as a result of the impacts of these issues. Therefore it can be stated that this article meets all the requirements for ITGS. The social and ethical issues that result from this IT situation are significant to what it led to. One of the main issues that revolves around this issue is the digital divide and equality of access. Once the iPhone is "unlocked", the user has access to many digital streams of data; data in which regular iPhone users do not have access too, or they are unable to stream it. Integrity is also one of the main social and ethical issues; the IT device in question (an Apple iPhone) was "tampered with" and has therefore lost most of its value as well as its originality. People and machines, although it is a social and ethical issue that affects almost all IT systems, it can also be said that it is relevant to this situation as well. The people who are unlocking the iPhone are on this "digital treadmill" in which their life revolves around the database and access to digital information. Information that is so immense and updated so quickly that it can be overwhelming sometimes, yet provide the user with an extensive amount of knowledge, which is often put into good use. The specific scenario that this IT system and its impacts are based upon is politics and government. The act
Saida K

Google: Internet freedom is declining - 1 views

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    The Government censorship has expanded outside of China.
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    This news item meets the requirements for ITGS because it includes all strands of the ITGS Triangle: Social/Ethical Issues, Application to Specific Scenarios and IT Systems. The Social and Ethical issue includes security, the digital divided and equality of access and surveillance.The government has decided to block certain videos from youtube, or articles from other websites regarding the negativity of the country. In other words, citizens and residents of that country won't be allowed to access "negative news" about the country they're currently living in. The digital divide and equality of access is relevant in this case because many other countries can see what different countries have blocked, meaning that for example, a person living in Germany that was not allowed to access information over "neo-Nazi content" may find information that was banned in Thailand about "the Thai king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, with feet near his head." Surveillance also is considered a social impact because the government is monitoring the actions of others, in terms of what they're posting online. The application to specific scenarios would be politics and government since the government is controlling the use of information through censorship. In all, the article explains what the government has controlled over the internet in company with Google, which includes Blogger, YouTube, AdWords, Google Maps and others. But the fact that the government is isolating the amount of information does not suffice the statement that people have the right to have their internet freedom.
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    This is really interesting! I didn't know about this digital censorship around the world. I knew about how most information is censored in different places in the world, but not in regards to places such as Germany. There are various methods of censorship and more ways than one of being able to get past them; one example is the use of proxies. Again this strikes me as something absurd. I have never heard of digital censorship in a country such as Germany, where there are so many sources for access to data. Why the government would ban such information I still cannot fathom, but the impacts that this arouses are serious, especially in regards to surveillance and the digital divide and equality of access. But ultimately, this was a very captivating post.
Jaymee C

TOPIC: In what ways is social networking used for serious business? - 35 views

The article I read was about the United States government using social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace to do investigation on people and catch criminals. Though it may be helpful for the...

politics and government social networking internet

Ram Bhadra

Offshoring blamed in part for IT's jobless recovery - 2 views

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    A very slow recovery is seen in the field of IT after the economic melt down however the bad economy is half the problem since another factor which has been growing since a very long time. It is offshoring of IT jobs from developed countries such as US and in Europe to countries such as China and India. It is also predicted that the IT jobs shall go down by 50% in the next four years in Europe and US.Also in this article the solely blames outsourcing for lack of jobs in developed countries and does not talk about how leads to growth in economies of developing nations which increases the consumption of goods manufactured in the developed countries and also leads to creation of new jobs. Hence this article has only one opinion. It does not talk about the growing opportunities for IT workers in countries besides the US and so on. It should focus on how offshoring had led to the ceasing of digital divides since individuals in developing nations now have economic power to consume similar products as Americans or Europeans and also the growing economies give the government chances to improve the infrastructure. Hence in the end it benefits all.
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