Human Choice and Computers: Issues of Choice and Quality of Life in the Information Society

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Critical Professional Discourses About Information and Communications Technologies and Social Life in the U.S.....Pages 1-20
Does the Internet Promote Democracy?....Pages 21-29
Theoretical perspective on the interplay between ICT and quality of life....Pages 31-41
Using Technology to help the Citizen Enrollment....Pages 43-53
Information and communication technology and the home environment....Pages 55-60
Some Great Myths of the History of Computing....Pages 61-75
Roots of Computing in Austria....Pages 77-87
Self-regulation: Content, Legitimacy and Efficiency — Governance and Ethics....Pages 89-108
Trust, corruption, and surveillance in the electronic workplace....Pages 109-119
Ethics and Learning....Pages 121-130
Computer Augmented Research and Scientific Misconduct....Pages 131-146
The Security Aspect of Information Society as a Global Biocultural System....Pages 147-162
Choice and responsibility: the delegation of decision making to intelligent software agents....Pages 163-170
Responsibility and the Work of IT-Professionals....Pages 171-181
Is The Enemy Us?....Pages 183-194
National Identification Schemes (NIDS)....Pages 195-205
A Classification of Biometric Applications Wanted by Politics....Pages 207-219
Preventing Privacy Attacks and Cybercrime in the Mobile Internet....Pages 221-223
Towards a Framework for Sustainable Knowledge Management in Organisations in Developing Countries....Pages 225-237
Adapting Global Practices Locally: a Perspective on IT Implementation in a Developing Country Context....Pages 239-251
Technology and Learning Societies in the New Millennium (Indian Context): Content, Practice and Management....Pages 253-263
Quality of Working Life, Knowledge-Intensive Work Processes and Creative Learning Organisations....Pages 265-274
Understanding the process of information systems and ICT curriculum development....Pages 275-282
Cultural differences of female enrollment in tertiary education in Computer Science....Pages 283-292
A Radical Scandinavian (“Øresundsk”) Approach to Inquiring Organizations....Pages 293-304
Sustainable Development and the Information Society....Pages 305-315
Panel Session: UNESCO’s “Information for All Programme”....Pages 317-318
Panel Session: UNESCO’s Draft Recommendations “Concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace”....Pages 319-327
Back Matter....Pages 329-331