ICT and Sustainability Skills and Methods

Question: Discuss about the ICT and Sustainability for Skills and Methods. Answer: Introduction: The ethical scenario that will be described in the study has occurred in the workplace recently. The ethical dilemma is related to breach if ICT (Information Communication and Technology). The company where this ethical dilemma has occurred is an IT small medium enterprise in Australia. The ethical issue is related to breach of data in terms of intellectual property rights. What are the facts? The unethical work can be categorized into privacy and data security. A group of people has sold the business idea of the IT company to another company in exchange of money. Before the company has received the Intellectual Property Right to their idea, the other company has already received it. What are the issues? Hence, due to this breach of data, the company has to face legal litigations from government that it had copied the idea from other company (Patrignani Whitehouse, 2014). It is a type of crime that is done by some group of people against the ethics of intellectual property and more collectively ethics of ICT. The crimes are more in case of SMEs as they cannot afford much security measures while stopping the crimes. Who is affected? There are some lists of people who are responsible for the breach of data regarding to the ethical dilemma in the company. Another IT company has instigated some people in the company to the theft of data. The identification of the ethical issue is not prominently explicit in this case. What is the ethical issue? The IT people that are responsible for securing the data are responsible for the breach and theft of data that is being developed for increasing the popularity of the business among the Australian market. The other people who are related with the data management are indirectly affected by the ethical issue (Eke et al., 2015). Indirectly, the employees of the IT company gets affected by the breach of data. Due to the unethical act, the company has to face much false legislation which affects the career of the people who have no relation with the data theft. What are the implications of the ethical issue? The trust of the person who is heading the team of data management is broken. He is the person who is leading the whole team of data management of the company. It is the responsibility of that person to secure the new business idea that will be implemented in the future for providing perfect solutions to their work. The ideals of honesty and privacy have a role in the ethical decision of the company (Kavathatzopoulos, 2015). The incident has violated the right to privacy and right to property to a great extent regarding the situation. What can be done about it? The ethical incident is related to the breach of confidentiality and ethical standards of ICT in the company. There are various code of ethics in a limited company that the employees are bound to follow. The goal is not to share any business ideas to people outside the company. The code of ethics in terms of data management is breached in this scenario. There are obligations that are related to the ethical dilemma. The obligation that has to be owed is avoiding misleading people while fostering professionalism in the company (Bull, 2015). The ethical infringement is occurred due to the act of few people in the company. What are the options? The company has many obligations that are enlisted in the ethical conduct of data management. The obligations that are included are to produce sound and safe product. The law of ethical issues of confidentiality is being broken by the stakeholders or the group of people in data management. Law of confidentiality and law of data protection in the ethical code of conduct are being broken by this incident that incurs huge loss to the company in legal aspects (Ferguson et al., 2016). Which option is best? The company that instigates the people responsible for data management of this IT company gets benefitted from this incident. The data management people are bribed from the other company in providing the trade secrets i.e. the business idea to them. The IT company is harmed by this action. It gets a false legislation from the court of law when it logged for intellectual property rights. Before this company has completed their idea of doing business, the company that instigates the data protection management has already acquired the intellectual property rights (Muir et al., 2016). It has hampered careers of many other officials related to the data management department of the company. Why the above option is the best? The situation of ethical dilemma in the field of ICT is a breach of law and ethical conduct that can be categorized under the act of utilitarianism. The act of utilitarianism describes that an incident that will increase or decrease the happiness of the affected bodies or parties. In this scenario, the act is the ethical dilemma in ICT. On the contrary, the affected party is the business that is being facing the false legal litigations from the court of law due to false application of intellectual property rights (Stahl et al., 2013). It can be said that this incident decreases the level of happiness of the IT company. It not only hampers the reputation of the company but also the careers of many innocent people.The ethical dilemma in the ICT department of the IT company is a common case of data theft and piracy that is being occurred in most of the small medium enterprises of IT in different parts of the world. Cyber crimes, piracy, breach of data, data theft are common issues faced by these companies due to lack of security aspects. The theory of act utilitarianism illustrates that there is the action can cause one party totally happy and another party in the phase of unethical decision taken by the group of people. A proper understanding should be maintained regarding the ethical conducts of the company and its fatal results that will be occurred on breaching the various sets of ethical codes of conduct. However, it can be said that there is no right or wrong in this situation (Otrel-Cass, 2015). The people responsible for the unethical decision are instigated from outsiders that is also unethical and against the law. References Bull, R. (2015). ICT as an enabler for sustainable development: reflections on opportunities and barriers.Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society,13(1), 19-23. Eke, D. O., Stahl, B. C., Fidler, C. (2015). 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