Information Technology Governance of UMKM in Kasasiur Banjar

One form of information technology management for UMKM in order to expand business networks, marketing and carrying out business processes is the use of the Cobit 5 framework. The benefits and maturity level of IT management are benchmarks for the direction of development and utilization strategies for UMKM. The purpose of this study was to assess the position of Kasasiur Banjar SMEs regarding implementation and targets to be achieved in the future. The result of the assessment is the maturity level of the current IT management position (existing). Furthermore, maturity targets will be determined for each selected IT process to be used as guidelines for the Kasasiur Banjar UMKM group in IT utilization. Maturity level assessment uses the domains EDM3, EDM4, APO7, DSS3, DSS6, and MEA1 with the calculation model referring to ISO/IEC 15504. Assessment results Maturity level related to IT development strategy is at level 1 (1.21), which is Performed. This means that Kasasiur Banjar SMEs have a concern for good IT management and processes have been implemented and achieved goals. The direction of governance development in UMKM Kasasiur Banjar is targeted to reach level 5, namely Optimizing.

DAPATKAH IT GOVERNANCE DENGAN COBIT 5 MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS LAYANAN INFORMASI AKADEMIK?

ABSTRAKTujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh tata kelola teknologi informasi dengan menggunakan COBIT 5 sebagai kerangka kerja tata kelola teknologi informasi terhadap kualitas layanan informasi akademik pada Sistem Infromasi Akademik. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis deskriptif kualitatif dan analisis partial least square. Data primer didapatkan melalui kuesioner yang disebarkan pada mahasiswa aktif Universitas Trilogi pada semester gasal tahun 2020–2021. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan COBIT 5 dengan domain EDM (evaluate, direct and monitor) dan domain MEA (monitor, evaluate and assess) berpengaruh positif terhadap peningkatan kualitas layanan pada sistem informasi akademik Universitas Trilogi. Sedangkan domain DSS (Delivery, Service and Support) tidak berpengaruh positif terhadap peningkatan kualitas layanan pada sistem informasi akademik Universitas Trilogi. Hasil penelitian ini menjadi masukan bagi Universitas Trilogi untuk terus meningkatkan tata kelola teknologi informasi pada sistem informasi akademik sebagai salah satu cara untuk meningkatan kualitas layanan yang diberikan agar visi dan misi universitas dapat tercapai. ABSTRACTThe purpose of this research is to see to what extent the implementation of information technology governance with COBIT 5 as a basic framework for assessing information technology and determine the effect of information technology governance on the academic information system. This data processing uses descriptive qualitative analysis and Partial Least Square analysis. The primary data was collected from the questionnaire that distributed to active student in odd semester 2020–2021 in Trilogi University. The result of this research is showing COBIT 5 with the domain EDM (Evaluate. Direct and Monitor) and the MEA (Monitor, Evaluate and Assess) domain have an effect on improving service quality at Trilogy University. While the DSS (Delivery, Service and Support) domain has no effect on improving service quality at Trilogi University. In consequence, Trilogi University is required to improve the governance of information technology in academic information system as way to enchance the service quality provided, so the vision and mission can be achieved.

Benefits of Compliance and Risk Management

Compliance is a program that aims to protect organizations from the occurrence of financial fraud, corruption, behavior and/or misconduct of employees linked to them, preventing their good reputation and financial soundness from being shaken. It is a tool whose purpose is to establish rules, standards and guidelines for internal processes within organizations. It was developed in the United States in 1970, and its practices were transformed into a legal institute, through the enactment of the Pioneer Law against Corruption FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), motivated by the Watergate Case, which involved then-President Richard Nixon and members of his administration, by paying bribes in surveys in favor of his re-election. In this context, this article has as its main question: how do the benefits offered by the Compliance and Risk Management program collaborate to reduce the risks of fraud, illicit and corruption within organizations? The aim of this study was to present the benefits provided by the adoption of the Compliance and Risk Management program in public and private companies, in their internal processes and relationships with their segment of activity, and how they collaborate for fraud mitigation. The methodology was adopted as a bibliographic research, and it was about the benefits caused by fraud prevention programs. It was found that Compliance and risk management programs bring effective risk protection benefits, mitigating fraud and corruption, combined with new Information Technology Governance (IT) solutions, such as Enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (EGRC).

Speculating About Robot Moral Standing: On the Constitution of Social Robots as Objects of Governance

In recent years, the governance of robotic technologies has become an important topic in policy-making contexts. The many potential applications and roles of robots in combination with steady advances in their uptake within society are expected to cause various unprecedented issues, which in many cases will increase the demand for new policy measures. One of the major issues is the way in which societies will address potential changes in the moral and legal status of autonomous social robots. Robot standing is an important concept that aims to understand and elaborate on such changes in robots’ status. This paper explores the concept of robot standing as a useful idea that can assist in the anticipatory governance of social robots. However, at the same time, the concept necessarily involves forms of speculative thinking, as it is anticipating a future that has not yet fully arrived. This paper elaborates on how such speculative engagement with the potential of technology represents an important point of discussion in the critical study of technology more generally. The paper then situates social robotics in the context of anticipatory technology governance by emphasizing the idea that robots are currently in the process of becoming constituted as objects of governance. Subsequently, it explains how specifically a speculative concept like robot standing can be of value in this process.

Making the Soft Power Hard: Nepal’s Internal Ability in Safeguarding National Interest

Soft power is an important instrument of foreign policy and a tool in safeguarding national interests. Under various regimes after the advent of democracy in 1950, Nepal has experienced a turbulent effect of international influence on technology, governance capability, policy transfer, labor migration and climatic affairs. In these contexts, traditional diplomatic effort based on persuasive bargaining requires an interest based practice which is complicated for the countries like Nepal where military power and economy are considered to be public goods rather than strategic base for the expansion of domestic policy making the other countries follow. Nepal creates an exemplary image in coping with the internal and external threats even during the major political transitions in 1950, 1990 and 2006. In all these power sharing mechanisms, the immunity that galvanized internal forces with minimum experience of indirect influence from the neighbouring countries shows that soft power values in Nepal became the major component for managing internal tensions and mitigating external interests. At one hand, the sources of soft power rests on ancient value system and on the other, Nepal celebrates new political system confronting the values earlier regime survived on. Political crisis before 2015 and the natural disaster after it plunged Nepal into a serious threat. During the time of crisis it is need and the value that functions compared to the interest. This paper posits a central question that how soft power became a variant during the war to peace transition from 2006 to the period of implementation of constitution stipulated in 2015 with the result of a stable government. The first part of the paper explores the dimensions of soft power in Nepal- both perceived and practiced- after Jana Aandolan II. The effectiveness of soft power in maintaining the geostrategic importance through a constant coupling of soft power diplomacy adopted and endorsed in Nepal by the external powers and Nepal’s own soft power standpoint will be analyzed in the second part of the paper. The last section of the paper analyzes the challenges for effective implementation of soft power diplomacy in meeting the national interest. Key words: Soft power, geo-strategic importance, national interest