Ethics and Information Technology

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/366">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/366">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Ethics and Information Technology</h1> <h2><i>Simon Rogerson</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>The versatility and adaptability of information technology (IT) offer many potential benefits to society, its organisations and its citizens, but there are also associated risks. The social and ethical implications of this technology warrant special attention and have resulted in the creation of information ethics as a discrete area of study. The overall goal of information ethics is to integrate IT and human values in such a way that IT advancesand protects human values rather than doing damage to them.</div> </body>