Creating a portable vaccine proof by adapting an app can be achieved technically – but comes with ethical and data privacy challenges, according to BCS, The UK’s Chartered Institute for IT.
The professional body has warned a situation may result where going to leisure venues around the UK could demand as much ‘linked data’ from us […]
Code Sets New Standards for Ethical and Professional Conduct by ICT Practitioners
IFIP, the global professional body for people working in the ICT sector, has announced the launch of its new Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
IFIP President, Professor Mike Hinchey, said the new Code of Ethics provides a much-needed global standard for the fast-moving technology […]
Code Sets New Standards for Ethical and Professional Conduct by ICT Practitioners
Thursday 28 January 2021 – IFIP, the global professional body for people working in the ICT sector, today announced the launch of its new Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
IFIP President, Professor Mike Hinchey, said the new Code of Ethics provides a much-needed global […]
ACS (Australian Computer Society) has launched microCredentials which recognise pre-existing knowledge, skills, and experience in cyber security.
MicroCredentials validate achievements against a set of internationally-recognised skills which align to the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA), the most commonly-used ICT competency framework defining the skills required to perform job roles across all aspects of the technology industry.
The Cyber Security microCredentials framework […]
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) outlines safer online meeting and home network measures
Home-based workers are at increased risk of cyber attack, but there are several measures they can take to reduce risk.
This is according to Bryan Baxter, a corporate IT business development manager and IITPSA KZN chapter committee member, who was […]
AI and algorithmic decision-making will over time bring significant benefits to many areas of our human endeavours. The proliferation of AI systems imbued with increasingly complex mathematical modelling and machine learning algorithms are being integrated in virtually every sector of the economy and society, to support and in many cases undertake more autonomous decisions and […]
BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has warned that a lack of diversity in teams developing artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to in-built bias and discrimination in its decisions.
The comments are featured in a new report by the Committee for Standards in Public Life (CSPL), which examines whether the existing frameworks and regulations around machine learning […]
BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has welcomed the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Code of Practice to protect children’s privacy online
The Age Appropriate Design Code (published 22 January) outlines 15 standards that online services should meet.
Dr Bill Michell OBE, Director of Policy at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT said: “Embedding ethical IT practice across services like […]
A new report predicts an additional 395,000 new jobs in ICT occupations by 2030. Portugal and Lithuania are expected to see the highest rates of growth (57 per cent) followed by Ireland, Poland, Estonia and Bulgaria (29 per cent) – far above the predicted EU average of 11 per cent.
CEDEFOP, the independent EU agency for developing skills […]
Whose Internet is this? And how can we design it together for the benefit of all?
Questions about participation and the economic, ecological and social sustainability of the Internet are mobilising young people all over the world. They also play a central role at the Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations (IGF), which is taking […]
