BACS 3033 – Social and Professional Issues
For this assignment, students are required to choose and examine a contemporary ethical problem as according to ONE of the given topics as follows:-
- Privacy and personal data usage in Asian Country
- Intellectual property legislation cases in Asian Country
- Censorship of the Internet in Asian Country
- Cyber crime cases in Asian Country
- Digital currency (Bitcoin) usage in Asian Country
Explore the topic selected in depth. This will take some searching on your part. For example, if you’re interested with the topic of Intellectual Property, you may examine a scenario in which publics/workers of an organization were caught in plagiarizing other’s intellectual property work/piece of code.
Students are required to do research through Internet sites, acquire further information from reference books/journals, and obtain additional ideas from other resources.
Discuss with your group members and prepare a report according to the attached report format to assess and complete the following assignment tasks:-
| a) Background [4 marks]● Write an overview to describe the background of the contemporary topic selected.● Identify all the stakeholders involved. b) Explore and analyze the topic from social, legal, architecture and market perspectives as much as possible. [40 marks]● Analyze the situation(s), mention various possible risks or consequences (if relevant).● Highlight the positive sides and negative sides of the artefacts to be discussed.● Provide your opinions/thoughts on the issues and justify your opinions with examples, case studies, facts, or reasoning under social, legal, architecture and market perspectives. c) Propose the solution(s) upon your chosen topic. [20 marks]● Selection of the action option(s) for your chosen topic: The rationale for your selections with respect to social perspective. The rationale for your selections with respect to legal perspective. The rationale for your selections with respect to architecture perspective. The rationale for your selections with respect to market perspective.d) Based on the chosen topic, identify and criticize the ethical issue(s) that may arise (with appropriate selection of one or more ethics philosophy to support your points), as well as proposing way(s) on how to deal with them. [30 marks] |
