Promoting and Modeling Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
Case study on general awareness of Social ethics in ICT on Indian Youths
1. CASE STUDY ON THE GENERAL
AWARENESS OF SOCIAL ETHICS IN
ICT ON INDIAN YOUTH
Presented By,
Divya Raj
Ritika Kumari
Vignana Jyothi Institute Of Management
2. INTRODUCTION
Ethics is a code or a set of principles by which people
live.
• Internet Era
Ethics in ICT mainly deal with
some sets of rules and a
general awareness that we
should follow while using the
3. 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
4. INTRODUCTION
• 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
• 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.
5. SCOPE OF STUDY
• Vignana Jyothi Institute Of Management
• Age group of 18-35
SAMPLE 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.
6. 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.
7. CHI SQUARE TEST
GENDER
Cross tabs Degree of P value Contingency Outcom
freedoms coefficient e
Gender*visiting 1 .041 .200 Rejecte
proxy sites d
Gender*course on 1 .003 .282 Rejecte
ICT ethics d
Gender* inclusion 1 .026 .217 Rejecte
of ICT education in d
Educational
Institutions
8. “DO YOU VISIT ANY UNTRUSTED SITE?”
Cross tabs Degree of P value Contingency Outcome
freedoms coefficient
Do you visit 1 .001 .323 Rejected
untrusted
site*use of
proxy sites
9. “DO YOU THINK STUDENTS SHOULD BE GIVEN A COURSE ON
IT ETHICS?”
Cross tabs Degree of P - Contingency Outcom
freedoms Value coefficient e
Do you think students should be given a 1 .000 .598 Rejected
course on IT ethics* importance of ethics
in ICT in educational institution
10.
11. 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.
12. 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.