Report on the delivery of the module “Privacy, Ethics, and Social Responsibilities” at the Joint

M.Sc. Curriculum in Software Engineering

Katerina Zdravkova

keti@ii.edu.mk

Contents

Module syllabus Teaching materials Module delivery

– with M.Sc. students in Novi Sad– with B.Sc. students in Skopje

Students’ results Student publications Related activities:

– Tempus poster days Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements for the development of this module

Katerina Zdravkova, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia

Mirjana Ivanović, Dept. of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia

Technical editor

Developer

Module syllabus

Ethics: normative frameworks, values, analysis approaches. Privacy: concepts of privacy, information privacy, information

privacy legislative, privacy – the global perspective / privacy enhancing technologies.

Trust: concepts and classification of trust; reliability. Security: information security, surveillance. Access: information access, software piracy. Property: intellectual property, ICT espionage. Social impact: social impact audit, cultural impact and

ethnography, globalization. Conduct: professional conduct, codes of conduct, information risk

management. Case studies.

The module in numbers

Topic Hours Slides Size Status

Ethics 4 111 3,54 Finished 90%

Privacy 5 119 7,13 Finished 95%

Trust 3 66 5,23 Finished 90%

Security 3 77 11,60 Finished 90%

Access 3 58 8,19 Finished 95%

Property 4 67 10,30 Finished 95%

Social Impact 4 80 9,73 Finished 80%

Conduct 4 43 6,99 Finished 75%

Total 30 621 63 One more week

Module delivery

University of Novi Sad:– M.Sc. students

University of Skopje:– B.Sc. students in the fifth semester

Announced interest to share the module:

STRL, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Report from Novi Sad

Three cycles:– Last weekend in November– Last weekend in January– Last weekend in February

Attended by 21 students (at least 15 have been present at all the lectures)

All lectures have been recorded and part of them have already been finished

The module on Moodle

Assessment

Coursework– Individual assignments– Small group team assignments– Larger group team assignments

Additional activity (optional):– Preparation of papers for local and international

conferences

Group assignment 1: comparisons

Comparison between ancient and nowadays view of ethics

Similarities and differences between computer, business, medical, and political ethics

How much are information systems and computerised medical instruments in contradiction with Hippocrates Oath

How much eBanking restricts privacy and anonymity

Group assignment 2: reviewing

Problems caused by ICTs:– Programming dark side

Viruses, warms, Trojan horses, … Consequences (financial, lose of data, …)

– IT risks Hardware risks + consequences Software risks + consequences

ICT espionage Privacy, security and data protection in:

– Marketing– International cooperation– E-voting

Group assignment 3: discussion

Professionalism and professional conduct: IT professional point of view

Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct

Information risk management - from auditing point of view

Student additional contribution

Prepared conference paper (in Serbian):

Ivan Mladenović, Olga Hotomski “Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct”

Prepared and submitted conference paper for BCI2007 (I hope it will be accepted)

Sanja Kekić, Gordana Rakić, Slobodan Đukić, Gordana Mijatović “How to recognise and Manage Information Risk Management”

Report from Skopje

Whole semester module: 30 lecture hours 10 group assignments of average quality First e-testing: very poor results (74 students,

the best with 73% of maximum points) Second e-testing: hacked questions and

answers

Related event: Tempus National poster week – March 2007

Concluding remarks

Very nice experience Students were motivated to learn more Teacher was happy with the students Rebeca gave fruitful contribution New version of the module will be prepared

during the summer Unsolved task: formal acceptance Special thank to Zoran Putnik for his support