Lecture
1. What are ethics? Why needed?
2. Islamic code of ethics
3. Network etiquette (8 broad rules)
4. Brief overview of ACM code of ethics
5. How to acquire good ethics?
Today’s lecture outline
Ethics
Ethics is a major branch of philosophy,
encompassing right conduct and
good life.
Need: Good life---حياةطيبة
Be they men or women those who
believe and do what is right, We
shall surely endow with a good life; We
shall reward them according to their
noblest actions.
Islamic law (Shariah)
عبادات
حجزكاةصومصالةشهادة
What is Islam?
شريعة
Islamic Law
عقائدBelief
عباداتRitual
Worship
معامالتMonetary dealings
معاشرتSocial
conduct
اخالقMoral
Character
Islamic law (Shariah)
Basic principle for social conduct
Potential ICT related harm
work Et
Netiquette
Ethics and Netiquette
From: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
Remember the human
Communication on the Internet does not
replace/ substitute normal contact.
Netiquette
Ethics and Netiquette
Don’t abuse your new found anonymity
Adhere to the same standards of behavior
online that you follow in real life.
Spying and Backbiting
Ethics and NetiquetteO you who believe! Avoid much
suspicions, indeed some suspicions are
sins. And spy not, neither backbite one
another. Would one of you like to eat
the flesh of his dead brother?
Netiquette
Respect people's time and bandwidth
Avoid chain emails; large attachments;
Use a subject that defines your email;
Always read FAQs (discussion lists).
Before forwarding the next chain letter, check at www.snopes.com if it’s a hoax
Relaying of unfounded information
Ethics and NetiquetteO you who believe! If a rebellious evil
person comes to you with a news,
verify it, lest you harm people in
ignorance, and afterwards you become
regretful to what you have done.
Netiquette
Ethics and Netiquette
Avoid sloppy language/ grammar
Don’t use ALL CAPS (which denotes shouting)
Easy on the exclamation marks!!!!
Avoid using short forms in formal communication
Respect Ownership
Ethics and Netiquette
Respect/ acknowledge
intellectual property
Using someone’s property unjustly
Ethics and NetiquetteO you who believe! Do not consume
your property among yourselves
unjustly unless it be a trade amongst
you, by mutual consent.
Copy/ share/ modify/ sell rights
Ethics and NetiquetteAll Rights
Reserved
Some Rights
Reserved
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Ethics and Netiquette
(by:
Attribution)
(sa:
Share-alike)
(nd:
No derivates)
(nc:
Non-
commercial)
Netiquette
Ethics and Netiquette
From: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
Respect other people's privacy
Privacy and Confidentiality
O ye who believe! Enter not houses
other than your own without first
announcing your presence and
invoking peace upon the folk thereof.
That is better for you, that ye may be
heedful.
Netiquette
Ethics and Netiquette
From: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
Don’t abuse the power
entrusted to you
Fulfilling trust
O ye that believe! betray not the trust
of Allah and the Messenger, nor
misappropriate knowingly things
entrusted to you.
.. and fulfill your covenant; verily, the covenant will be asked about.
Netiquette
Ethics and Netiquette
Protect your Haya (modesty)
See no evil, hear no evil, do no evil
Live an online life of Taqwa!
Taqwa (parable): protecting one’s self on a thorny path
Man is accountable
Verily the hearing, the sight, and
the heart---all of them, they will be
questioned
Code of Ethics
1. Contribute to society and human well-being.
2. Avoid harm to others.
3. Be honest and trustworthy.
4. Be fair and take action not to discriminate.
5. Honor property rights including copyrights and patent.
6. Give proper credit for intellectual property.
7. Respect the privacy of others.
8. Honor confidentiality.
General Moral Imperatives
How to acquire
good ethics
1. Learning about knowledge
Can those who know and those
who do not know become equal? It
is only people of understanding
who are receptive of the advice
What is true knowledge
Only those of His slaves fear Allah
who are knowledgeable
2) Company of pious people (صحبة)
O you who believe, fear Allah, and
be in the company of the truthful
(Sadiqeen)
Today’s lecture summary
1. Why act ethically? Intention.
2. Islamic code of ethics
3. Network etiquette
4. Brief overview of ACM code of ethics
5. How to acquire good ethics?
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