CASE STUDY ON THE GENERAL AWARENESS OF SOCIAL ETHICS IN ICT ON INDIAN YOUTH

Presented By,Divya RajRitika KumariVignana Jyothi Institute Of Management

INTRODUCTION

• Internet EraEthics in ICT mainly deal

with some sets of rules and a general awareness that we should follow while using the internet.

Tech-savvy generation

Ethics is a code or a set of principles by which people live.

INTRODUCTION• Youths and awareness of social Ethics in

ICT.access to pornography or software, hacking, using duplicate copies of software, licenses, pirated CDs.

YouTube has an age limit for viewing of some videos, but today's teenagers create fake IDs and successfully access the contents.

INTRODUCTION

• Merits and demerits The pros of this technological era is

that youth are getting acquainted with enormous resources to constantly update their knowledge.

Youth are using it for their own requirements, but they don’t understand the right way of using this medium and use it as a tool to entertain them.

• Issues like cyber crime, leak of personal information etc.

It is easier to access the internet now a days, but it is more easier to access untrusted or vulnerable sites

SCOPE OF STUDY• Vignana Jyothi Institute Of Management• Age group of 18-35SAMPLE AND DATA• 100 students studying management at

VJIM • questionnaire was prepared using Google

Drive application • The data was collected over a span of 1

month

SURVEY INSTRUMENT• 9 questions • have your mail accounts being hacked , visiting of untrusted sites, viability of social networking sites, the use of proxy sites etc.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY• To know the effect of various

unwanted activities such as hacking, visiting untrusted sites and use of the proxy site on social ethics in ICT.

• The extent to which todays youth is aware of rules and regulation while using the internet.

• To examine the most important problem faced by Indian youth because of unethical practices in ICT.

Cross tabs Degree of freedoms

P value Contingency coefficient

Outcome

Gender*visiting proxy sites

1 .041 .200 Rejected

Gender*course on ICT ethics

1 .003 .282 Rejected

Gender* inclusion of ICT education in Educational Institutions

1 .026 .217 Rejected

CHI SQUARE TEST

GENDER

Cross tabs Degree of freedoms

P value Contingency coefficient

Outcome

Do you visit untrusted site*use of proxy sites

1 .001 .323 Rejected

“DO YOU VISIT ANY UNTRUSTED SITE?”

Cross tabs Degree of freedoms

P -Value

Contingency coefficient

Outcome

Do you think students should be given a course on IT ethics* importance of ethics in ICT in educational institution

1 .000 .598 Rejected

“DO YOU THINK STUDENTS SHOULD BE GIVEN A COURSE ON IT ETHICS?”

CONCLUSION

• People from all age groups surf internet for various purposes and they face issues such as hacking, phishing .

• There are various applications such as farm ville and family tree through which people are tempted to allow access to their personal information.

SUGGESTION• Government should issues

strict cyber laws .

An individual must be very careful while accessing various applications on social networking sites, they should not click e-mails from unknown resources.

social ethics should be a part of the curriculum in educational institutions which should be promptly implemented.