Striking a Balance Between Ethics and ICT Governance

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/53/40">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/53/40">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Striking a Balance Between Ethics and ICT Governance</h1> <h2><i>Graeme Pye, Matthew Warren</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>Ethics and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Governance both have their place in today’s business organisations, but can their practical applications present an ethical ambiguity for the IT professional employed within the business organisation? The guidelines contained within various codes of ethics recommend principles regarding the ethical behaviour of individual IT professionals. In contrast, IT Governance as outlined in the new Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides ICT governance advice for business. This paper explores the difference between these viewpoints.<br /> Keywords: Ethics, IT governance, ICT and ACS.</div> </body>