Chapter 3 - IT's About Business 3.1 - Driving Change Through Technology, the Indigenous Way Flashcards
What is Bell?
A large Canadian company whose mission, is to advance how Canadians connect with each other and the world, enabled by strategies built on their competitive strengths, and embraces the new opportunities of the integrated digital future.
What does the Bell Ethics document state? What does it state about risk?
Provide services to the customer ion alignment with its mission while engaging in the highest ethical standards of professional performance. Ethical risks occur not only for legal reasons but also when employees do not follow the expected conduct.
How many pages are on the document and who does the document apply to?
- It is a 39 page document. Management, employees, and directors of the BCE group.
What are five of the core principles outlined in the Bell document? (I.R.S.EC.ACOI)
- Integrity, respect, safety, ethical conduct, and avoiding conflict of interest.
What are the three sections of the document that outline corporate and consumer protection in information technology?
- Who approves corporate information for release.
- Access is based on a need to know basis.
- Customers must explicitly consent to have their information disclosed (opt in model), unless requested by a legal authority.
What does the code discuss with respect to privacy? What is an example?
Why it is important and the disciplinary actions that may take place if they fail to abide. If a customers spouse calls and ask for the data and information, they are not allowed to release the data if the main person is not present and if the spouse is not an authorized individual.
What does the code cover with respect to the employee privacy?
Discusses issues with respect to their data but not with their communications. It also listed responsibilities and actions to respect confidential information.
What is Animikii? Who / when was the company founded?
An information technology company that describes its mission as social innovation through Indigenous technology. Founded by Jeff Ward in 2003 who is Ojibwa and Metis.
What was Jeff Ward provided an award for? What did Jeff say made his company different?
40 under 40 designation in 2019 by the city of Vancouver. The belief that technology can be used for many purposes. The worldview in which the technology and solutions are created.
What are the core principles of Animiki? What are the seven values?
Being values based. Showing the Grandfather teachings of the Anishinaabe culture.
Humility
Honesty
Truth
Wisdom
Respect
Courage
Love
How does the values relate to the companies provision of information technology?
Humility involves asking clients to bring strength, experience, and wisdom in a project so that the company can provide expertise in delivering its services.
Love binds the other values and is only understood when the other values exist. Love is the enabler of effective team collaboration both within the company and when working with broad partners or collaborators.
How were these values reflected during the pandemic?
Created flexible remote work hours, created sharing support circles, and facilitated working at home.
What do the employees of Animikii have?
Indigenous cultural safety training to ensure the preservation of their rights.
How does the company store the data of its customers?
It does not likely do that as it is a developer of sites and systems for others. It has initiated a project to reclaim and recognize Indigenous Data sovereignty, as data ownership are important ethical issues in information technology.
Why was the recognize and reclaim Indigenous data sovereignty project created?
Lack of respect around the copyright of traditional stories that were recorded from tribal elders. They would record the stories, not provide the material to the source tribes, and instead copyright the material and attempt to sell it back through literature like books.
