ISTAS 98. Wiring the World: The Impact of Information Technology on Society. Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Technology and Society (Cat. No.98CH36152)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (20) ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Mark Louis ◽  
Angelina Anne Fernandez ◽  
Nazura Abdul Manap ◽  
Shamini Kandasamy ◽  
Sin Yee Lee

Information technology is taking the world by storm. The technological world is changing rapidly and drastically. Human activities are taken over by robots and computers. The usage of computers and robots has increased productivity in various sectors. The emergence of artificial intelligence has stirred up many debates on both its importance and limitations. Artificial intelligence is directed to the usage of Information Technology in conducting tasks that normally require human intelligence. The expectation of artificial intelligence is high, nevertheless, artificial intelligence has its shortcomings namely the impact of artificial intelligence on the concept of a legal personality. The problem with artificial Intelligence is the debate on whether does it have a legal personality? And another problem is under what situation does the law treat artificial intelligence as an entity with its own rights and obligations. The objective of this article is to examine the various definitions of legal personality and whether artificial intelligence can become a legal person. The article will also examine the criminal liability of artificial intelligence when a crime has been committed. The methodology adopted is qualitative namely Doctrinal Legal Research by analyzing the relevant legal views from various journals on artificial intelligence. The study found out that artificial intelligence has its limitations in defining its legal personality and also in examining the criminal liability when a crime has been committed by robots.


Author(s):  
Dag von Lubitz

Information Technology (IT), and the subsequent broad acceptance of Information and Knowledge Management (IM/KM) methods revolutionized the way business is thought of and practiced. With e-business facilitating the ability to do more, more, faster, at a wider range, and to influence ever larger and more diverse consumer groups, the impact of technology on commerce, finance, and global economy has been frequently compared to the “paradigm shift” that Kuhn (1970) proposed as the essence of scientific revolution. Yet, despite the transformational influence of modernity on the ancient art, the fundamental principles of business have not changed: overreliance on the facilitation of business operations as the substitution for the adherence to the soundness of their conduct fuelled rampant growth of corporate laisse faire, and already twice brought the world to the brink of economic disaster (Stiglitz, 2003; Steingart, 2008).


Author(s):  
Robert A. Schultz

In order to conclude our discussion of the value of information technology, we need to answer these questions: What characteristics does IT share with modern technology generally? What is its place with respect to the rest of technology and with respect to the rest of the world? The goal of this chapter is to formulate how information technology might interact with ethical principles required at the species level, ecosystem level, and the level of being as a whole. I also want to consider the impact of these ethical principles on our responsibilities as IT professionals. The most positive feature of information technology is its potential to contribute to the increase in human consciousness by making more knowledge more widely available. Yet it can just as easily enable questionable applications of technology that further our extinction as a species or the destruction of the ecosystem. Let us begin by asking of information technology the questions we asked about technology generally: Is information technology a neutral means? Does it have its own ends and point of view?


2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Andrii Halai ◽  
Viktoriia Halai ◽  
Roksolana Hrechaniuk ◽  
Kateryna Datsko

Just as there is no ideal society, there is no society without corruption. Fighting corruption is one way to achieve the UN-approved goals of sustainable development. The article summarizes the process of formation and implementation of international anti-corruption standards and their features in different national legal systems. It is determined that the adoption and recognition of standards does not in itself solve the problem, which is why the world is constantly looking for ways to combat corruption, testing new tools and mechanisms to influence corruption risks. This is confirmed by numerous projects funded by international donor organizations. Information technologies create endless opportunities not only for economics development (robotics, blockchain technology, neural networks, artificial intelligence, quantum virtual and augmented reality), but also for the fight against corruption: from e-government and courts, digital public services and tools that report about the facts of corruption, to the means of influencing society through social networks. The article analyzes scientific and professional research in the field of digitalization of anti-corruption activities and substantiates the relationship of these concepts from the standpoint of the impact of IT technologies on combating and preventing corruption. The article summarizes modern technological advances and their implementation in various national legal systems, defines the role of information technology in the fight against corruption and forms an understanding of information technology as a tool to control and combat corruption.


Author(s):  
Jingyuan Zhao

The advancement in information technology has transformed the world. There has been a tremendous impact of information technology on contemporary vocational education. This chapter highlights the impact of information technology on vocational education paradigm in China. In general, education paradigm has gone through three stages: empirical imitation education, computer-aided education, and data-driven education. China's vocational education is experiencing a transformation of paradigm from teaching support to learning support. This work is focused on how to construct a learning support paradigm in China's vocational education system through information technology. The Open University of China creating an innovative approach to learning support paradigm is discussed and three key elements of strategy for constructing a learning support paradigm of vocational education through information technology are presented in the chapter.


2019 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Article Editorial

One of the topical problems of modern medicine is the impact of microbiota on human health. The correlation between microbiome disorders and the development of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, skin, respiratory system, obesity, autism and even depression has been established. Specialists pay most attention to the formation and maintenance of microbiota balance in children from birth, which is necessary for the preservation of their health in the future. Microbiota is studied by scientists from all over the world, which makes it possible to establish safe and effective strains of probiotic bacteria and on their basis to create a new generation of multiprobiotics. Creation of modern probiotics, their rational use and efficiency were discussed at the international symposium «Microbiotic disorders as an interdisciplinary problem of global level», held in the framework of the XVII Russian Congress «Innovative technologies in pediatrics and pediatric surgery» in October 2018. Dr. Ashton Harper (UK) and Professor Irina Zakharova shared their experience of effective dysbiosis correction with the help of modern English multiprobiotic Bak-Set.


The impact of information technology in accounting is playing a major role in small and medium enterprises information technology has been the prevailing impact to businesses and around the world .It is now given stretching from the perspective of technology and it is benefits as to whether it can be effective, that is improving small and medium enterprises performance, where many if not most of businesses implementation include competitive advantage, reduction in human errors. Companies in telangana state have different reasons for frequent improvement of technology to existing technologies used in the companies. an system application practices company outlined that the usage of technology to maximise your industrial enterprise productiveness creates the platform to recognise authentic employer success business productivity and statistics technology guarantees businesses have the equipment to conquer the challenges of executing on technique each day and prospering in gift international scenario.. Small and medium enterprises business firms implements technology because it enables the company to keep up with other small and medium enterprises business firms in throughout the world. And technology allows businesses to decorate their communique strategies. using emails and awesome web web sites can help agencies beautify communique with purchaser.. This permits in retaining competitive advantage and commercial enterprise corporation owners can use generation to reduce commercial organization costs. And it enables in automating decrease lower back workplace features, for example file of ebook retaining, accounting and payroll. generation also can be used to create secure environments for maintaining sensitive organization or consumer facts. in international situation


Author(s):  
Tuğçe Uzun Kocamış ◽  
H. Muhammet Kekeç

The advances in information and information technology provide companies with both speed and optimal benefit by using the internet intensively for every stage of their commercial activities and for all kinds of transactions. In order to reduce tax losses, it is necessary to utilize information technologies to develop new audit methods and techniques and to follow new practices in the world. It has become compulsory for public institutions to keep pace with the evolving information technology and to form the necessary information infrastructure. E-applications prevent tax evasion and ensure tax incomes of countries not only to increase the quality of public service but also increase the taxpayer's transaction speed. With the transfer of taxpayers to electronic book and electronic document in order to conduct an effective tax audit and to obtain tax revenue studies on the establishment of a structure that is effective, fast working and using computer technologies well in the struggle with the informal economy are carried out by the tax administration. In our work, electronic tax applications and tax audit in Turkey are explained under general headings and the process of transition to electronic tax audit is taken as basis on the basis of applications in the world. As a result, the contribution of computer and internet technology to the effectiveness of tax audit is an unquestionable reality.


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