The Serious Side of Me Today

Ok, so I just feel like sharing something more serious today. In fact, this was my report awhile ago for class. It's about Business Ethics and Security. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqRZGhiHGxg

Oh and enjoy this video on phishing from Common Craft. Common Craft loves explaining tidbits using cut outs. Very adorable.

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It is without doubt that the use of information technology in business presents major security challenges, poses serious ethical questions, and affects society in significant ways. In as much as technology has tried to better societies in making more efficient and effective systems, still there are some technologies cause notorious breaks and of which add up to more costs than they reap benefits.

For example, computerizing a manufacturing process may have the beneficial result of improving working conditions and producing products of higher quality at less cost, but also have the adverse effect of sliminating people’s jobs.

As a manager or business professional,  we should be able to invlve managing work activities and those of others to minimize the detrimental effects of business applications of information technology and to optimize their beneficial effects.

Business ethics is concerned with the numerous ethical questions that managers must confront as part of their daily business decision making. The issues of intellectual property, rights, customer and employee privacy, security and company records, and workplace safety are highlighted because they are major areas of ethical controversy in information technology.

There are four (4) basic principles of technology ethics:

1)    Proportionality. The good achieved by the technology must outweigh the harm or risk. Moreover, there must be no alternative that achieves the same or comparable benefits with less harm or risk.

2)    Informed Consent. Those affected by the technology should understand and accept the risks.

3)    Justice. The benefits and burdens of technology should be fairly distributed. Those who benefit should bear their fair share of risks, and those who do not benefit should not suffer a significant increase in risk.

4)    Minimized Risk. Even in judged acceptable by the other three guidelines, the technology must be implemented so as to avoid all unnecessary risk.

These principles that can serve as basic ethical requirements that companies should meet to help ensure the ethical implementation of information technologies and information systems in business. It helps managers evaluate the potential harms or risks of the use of new technologies.

In addition, business and IS professionals would live up to their ethical responsibilities by voluntarily following guidelines:

1. You can be a responsible professional by
2.  acting with integrity
3. increasing your professional competence
4. setting high standards of personal performance
5.  accepting responsibility for your work
6. advancing health, privacy, and general welfare of the public

In so doing, you would be demonstrating ethical conduct, avoiding computer crime, and increasing the security of any information system you develop or use.

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Told ya, it's serious. HAHAHA 

And Gosh, I really died today. I woke up at 8am to make my group's Powerpoint presentation for our 9am class. THANK YOU LORD FOR WAKING ME UP! ALLELUIA!

(Note to self: Stop getting drunk on Fridays!!! Kawawa 180.1!!!)

ALSO... GOOD JOB TO THE UP JMA IN HIGH DEFINITION APPLICANTS FOR THROWING THE BEST APP PARTY EVER. CRave :>

AND LASTLY... Goodluck Manny! Kick some Clottey butt!

Random Awesomeness of the Times

For some of you who may know me personally, I'm really a random person. I'll always have tidbits to share about my life, sometimes you'll just go "AH OK, and so? Your point is?" Some people find it really annoying but sometimes life is really just so random. This blogpost is dedicated to celebrating that fact! DON'T BE HATIN'.
I'm glad this BA 180.1 blog is helping me bring out the randomness and awesomeness of life. Ha ha. (Thanks Sir Pabellon, your idea's awesome!)  

Technology, what do I do without you!



Random Awesomeness #1: Of Manny Villar's 'Naging Mahirap' jingle...  

Really Manny? You?

Awzum song... apparently, "Nakaligo ka na ba sa dagat ng basura" is not the title of this political jingle because "Naging Mahirap" is. Ha ha. For some outlandish reason (which I am still thoroughly trying to figure out btw), that political jingle  is fast tracking its way to my mental list of top LSS songs. It was around December-ish when I first heard that song not from tv or radio but from my 8 year old brother, Marco. I gotta hand it to whoever made this song. Using children to bring the words to life is pure genius. I mean, I wouldn't think I'd get hooked to it as much without my brother's incessant chanting. This might very well be the Philippine's national anthem for the next 6 years? Who knows right. Btw, I am not trying to endorse Manny V. :) Just sing along with me!

Oh and let's all vote wisely and get to know our presidentiables! We better not screw up the May 2010 elections. We have 2 months to decide and make our votes count. 


Any thoughts on the e-voting the government will be implementing this May 2010? It sounds really scary if you ask me... all the linking of data "in the air." Who knows where our votes go to before they reach the main counter at Comelec? Geez Philippine politics, geez.

Random Awesomeness #2: Monopoly Revolution

You spin my head right round, right round

The quadrilateral is now round. It's amazing at how Hasbro decided to revamp the packaging. I wonder how it'll influence the game outcome. For one, there's no more cash involved. Everything's programed into a calculator which credits for properties and whatnot. That also probably means gone are the long arguments of who gets to be banker! Rawr, SNORE. Design wise, it's amazing and new. I'm just not sure if this could bring out the real enjoyment we get from playing the game the way we're accustomed to. 

Random Awesomeness #3: Adhoc: Eternity in an Hour

 

The Midnight Special aka Eternity in an Hour

Watch the video and be inspired. WAIT,  OK so Blogger won't allow me to post videos cause the video icon is not in the control panel. FAIL. Bloggers please help me figure this one out. Here's the wonderful link instead: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150123607295241

UP JMA Ad hoc team, WILD. I can't really tell how many people went. This one's gotta be the best AdHoc ever. 

Random Awesomeness #4: Feliz Cumpleaños Michelle.Lean.Nella.Viana!

My next stop after Ad Hoc! I thought I'd be able to enter a state of sobriety come this joint party 'cause Lean called to tell me all the alcohol's gone. NOT. Next thing I knew, I was already up against Trisha Lee in chugging down Hennessy Cognac straight off the bottle. ALAT. Oh and... it's really so heartwarming to see all my HS friends!!! SUPER GVs guys!!! Michelle, I sincerely hope your house is back to its normal and clean state. 


Overall, I think this weekend has been one of the best yet! BIG SMILES AND SNAPS.


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95% of this post is not even related to 180.1 Ha ha. Well I hope you enjoyed this hodgepodge of randomness nonetheless.


And another thing, I just discovered Loserboi's blog been shut down. OH NO. :(

Testing testing.. uno dos tres!

¡Hola chico/chica!

¡Bienvenidos a mi BA 180.1 blog! That means "Welcome to my BA 180.1 blog!" Ha ha. 

About 6 years ago, my best friend, Lean and I set up our very first blog. It's something like the blog of music promoters' Loserboi and Backyy. No we were not Hiphop/RnB savvys who took turns in promoting new music worldwide; but more of plain high schoolers who thought had everything to say about our oh-so-myopic world.

That's Lean on left-most part of the picture! She's a model now!

Our blogsite (whose URL shall remain undisclosed, sorry) was made on a high schoolers' whim to be connected with all of our other close friends who already had blogs of their own. We decided to come up with one together to see how many would frequent our site and/or have the interest of posting comments to our logs... wow. Super shallow reason, I know! But remember, this was high school and blogs were the closest things we had to today's social networking sites (Friendster was slowly deteriorating around this time).

Eventually, Lean and I grew tired of updating our blogsite (Multiply was on a take off stage at this point) and we just knew we had to outgrow it. Pictures now became worth a thousand words for both of us (and the rest of the world) individually. On a side note, if you're asking if Lean and I remained friends, we still are today. Strong. Ha ha.

With a slight turn of events and now, social networking sites, a form of social media have reached greater heights-- and Facebook's just one of them! I'm nothing but amazed, considering how I've been resistant at getting my own FB account until only recently (last semester). Now there are more social networking sites that allow us to do more than blog all we wanted to. Best part about Facebook and all is that I feel so connected... not just through blogs but in pictures, links, everything! Again, it's amazing! Web 2.0 + Social media = win!

Here I am, 6 years older owning a blog of my own (for academics - SOLELY for BA 180.1; and for a better purpose - for building meaningful connections among my classmates and Sir Pabellon). Aww.

In a few, I'll be publishing this (my first blog entry) and all I can think of now is... cyber-chronicling will never stop.

Hopefully, my guess will be as good as yours.