Impact of access to telecoms

In the UK we have 33.682 million main telephone lines, this is a very large for a small country and s a siginificant difference to the amount they have in other countries. Central African Republic had only 12,000 and this are such a larger country with a greater population the difference between the access to telecoms the UK have compared to Central Africe is astonishing. Costa Rica have 1.437 million this is a large amount also compared to Central African but still a small and insiginificant amount compared to the UK access to them . Once again Singapores has a lot of access but not much in comparison with the small country of the UK, Singapore has 1.859 million. This all shows the vast difference between the countries and the different styles of living. It clearly demonstrates the difference in technology across the world, which is quite astonishing.

Data response

Some of the reasons for the lack of ICT is the lack of electricity in these places and the simple fact that they do not have the funds to invest in the upto date technology.
Computer-aid projects have been very successful due to the fact that they cant afford to give the countries the most upto date technology as it is constantly improving and even when computer aid projects send computers over to these countries, the people do not know how to use one or how to build it into their normal lives to make things easier and do not know how to put them to good use. It would be necessary for the people of these countires to also recieve some much needed help and advise in how to use a computer and how to put it to good use for business use, it is important for them to get this help to help them move over to the other side of the divide.

Wrong side of the divide

Some countries are on the wrong side of the digital divide due to many factors, such as. they do not have sufficient funds in order to catch up with the technology the rest of the world now have. They have to put their money into housing and food before things such as the digital world. Also, for some coutnries they can survive without, unlike man y countries who are just greedy and are never happy and continue to improve things. So the matter of their countries economy not being developed enough can be a reason for them being on the wrong side of the digital divide. Also, the countries that are on the wrong side tend to be countries that are very small and do not have a massive population and stricken with poverty. Also, such countries do not have great electricity supply and this is necessary in order to run the majority of current technology. Although to a certain degree techinology may help these countries it isnt a necessaity and they are fine sitting on the other side of the divide for the moment and even if they transfer over to the other side they will never be able to keep up with the ever growing and improving technology in todays informtaion age.

Investigation ICT Legislation

The main provisions of the Data Protection Act are :
Data must:
-Be processed within the law
-Only be used for specific purposes
-Be adequate, relevant and not excessive
-Be accurate and up to date
-Be kept for no longer than is necessary
-Be processed within your legal rights
-Be kept secure
-Not to be transferred to countries that do not have similar Data Protection laws.
The main benefits of the Data Protection Act for individuals as well as groups in the information age are:
-Anyone misusing your personal data can be prosecuted as it is against the law
-People feel safer as they are more reassured that their data will be kept secure

The disadvantages of the Data Protection Act for people in the information age are:
-It is easier than ever for people to use someones elses data and get away with it for a long time, so the data protection act is certainly mistreated and people do not always reasuured by the act.

Monitoring internet and e-mail use

It certainly has some advantages, such as, it prevents employees from wasting time on the internet and looking work unrelated things, also, the employers are able to find out whether any workers are thinking about moving to a new job and it also makes their internet work space safer and lessens the risk of contracting viruses or getting any unwanted websites up and so forth.
It will most importantly have some negative impacts on the business as it is crowding workers independence and they are unlikely to want to work that way and it will probably force them more into looking for a new job which they wont search at work so the employers won't know about it and demonstartes that the employers have little trust in the workers and not many people are likely to want to work under these conditions.
I do not think it has many advantages for the employees accept them seem like good workers to the employers if they do not get reported for doing anything wrong ans the line manager will be able to send a positive report about them to their employer.
Sometimes it is necessary to use the internet for different things that usually wont be deemed for business purposes but on occasions it is and the employeees then have difficultly in doing so due to the monitoring system. An employee who only uses it for business purposes and feels that there is no need for their computers to be tracked and therefore will feel like it is an invasion of privacy and this can cause problems in the work place.

Discussion Teen Arrive Alive GPS Tracking system

I do not think it is a good idea, it stops teenagers idependence and parents should have faith in their children to behave while driving, if they dont then they shouldnt buy or give them a car to use and if they wasnt safe they wouldnt have passed their test. Also, some teenagers may react badly to their lack of indepenence and purposely drive wrecklessly to maybe prove a point. However, if it does work efficiently it could protect teenagers as if they know someone is watching them they are more likely to drive safely and also if they do get into trouble and have an accident some can call for help and still be able to give the emergency services directions as to where they are. However, parents will not be able to constantly watch where their children and also the techonlogy is sure not to work constantly and it is unlikely that many teenagers will agree to it.

Dicusssion US Passports and RFID

The US department of homeland security has decided that 1 millin US passports will contain radio frequency ID chips in 2005, moving to a universal system from 2006.
While this idea will be faster and more convenient it does have dnagers and flaws. How do you decide which 1 million people have the radio chip inserted into their passport and it they may not be relevant or useful to the system at all, sop will it actually be achieveing much? Also, it can be danger to the people and they can be traced from a wide range, sometimes helping to contain crimes but sometimes causing more trouble than they are worth.