1. Gilbertine IKILI OSSANA Information Systems: CERAG Advisor: Marc FAVIER Ethics and ICT/IS in Organizations Presentation of PhD subject: June 8, 2012

2. Structure 2  Key concepts  Context  Outline  Implications

3. ICT Codes of Ethics IS Ethics

4. 4 ICT: Information and Communication Technology ICT Key concepts ContextOutlineImplications

5. Key concepts ContextOutlineImplications IS: Information Systems

6. 6 Business IS ICT Key concepts ContextOutline Implications Interaction between ICT, IS and Business

7. 7 Ethic Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

8. Moral vs. Ethics 8 Stahl (2008) Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

9. Codes of Ethics: A corporate statement that registers corporate principles, ethics, rules of conduct, codes of practice, or company philosophy concerning responsibility to stakeholders, the environment, or any other aspects of society external to the company (Langlois and Schlegelmilch,1990) 9 Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

10. 10 EthicsICT/IS ICT/IS Ethics Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

11. 11 ICT/IS Ethics Information Ethics Computer Ethics Information life cycle Information life cycle Computer uses Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

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13. Global Impact of ICT/IS evolution 13  Obligations: sharing public information – Privacy, responsibility, accuracy  Rights: access to information – Intellectual Property rights  New Uses: “cloud” storage of information - Privacy  Intense Social Change: Social media, Twitter, etc… - computer crime, abuses Key concepts Context OutlineImplications

14. Reputation Strategic Economic Organization Ethicals issues 14 Key concepts Context OutlineImplications Impact of ICT/IS evolution

15. The Literature Anglosaxon sources Focuses on evaluation of codes of conduct or business codes 15 Key concepts Context OutlineImplications

16. How do organizations define their ethical positions through ICT/IS user guidelines? Research question

17. What are our goals?

18. 18 Step 1 Collect codes of Ethics (ICT/IS user guidelines) Step 2 Analyze content of codes of Ethics (Lefebvre & Singh, 1992, 2006) Step 3 Compare their evolution & specificities Step 4 Assess the degree of ethical development of codes (Kohlberg, 1972) Research question Key concepts ContextOutlineImplications

19. Theoretical and methodological contributions  Contributes to current literature  Proposes a framework that analyses codes of Ethics ( ICT/IS user guidelines) 19 Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

20. Managerial contributions:  Propose policies that address and could prevent ethicals problems  Propose a tool to assess the degree of ethical development of codes (ICT/IS user guidelines)  Define training programs adapted to user needs 20 Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

21. Possible limits/difficulties  Not accessing the field (organizations) for the case study  Insufficient number of collected codes  Build the right tool to assess the degree of ethical development of codes (ICT/IS user guidelines) - 21 Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

22. Agenda  From now to September 2012: literature review  October 2012: contact firms for interviews  January or February 2013: start to analyse ICT/IS user guidelines 22 Key concepts ContextOutline Implications

23. Thanks for your attention 23