Living In The IT Era

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By: Shaira Almoceda

TRUE
Always implement an informed consent so that participants understand why data is being
collected & they have an option to refuse participation is a core tenet of address privacy and
security.

TRUE
ICT also plays a part in the prevention and solution of crimes.

TRUE
Adopt and expand on open data, standards, or innovation done by other digital developers in the
community is a core tenet of Use Open standards, Open data, Open source, and Open Innovation.

TRUE
Data sourcing, collection, and analysis must also be holistic is a core tenet of Be Data Driven.

FALSE
Proponents of Social Evolutionwho classified societies into universal evolutionary stages used
and relied on primary-data. _____.

FALSE
The greater number of new technologies and the combinations that are and can be generated
from them the slower will be the technological advancement because of so much combinations.

TRUE
A core tenet of design with the user is to incorporate multiple user types in each stage.

FALSE
Instant Messaging began in the 70s and 80s but the modern era of instant messaging credited to
Facebook Messenger gained popularity in 1997.

FALSE
Twitter was created by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2006.

TRUE
Initiatives that do not account for ecosystem challenges are less likely to achieve their objectives
or scale.

TRUE
The effects of global information explosion can already be seen in the cyclical uploading and
downloading of information.
FALSE
Social evolution can be credited to the theories of Charles Darwin.

TRUE
The Digital Age is also termed as The New Media Age.

TRUE
Design a program that is adaptive to changes in user context is a core tenet of Build for
Sustainability.

TRUE
Linking the problem at hand to others who have encountered similar concerns, and have
attempted different solutions, people will have a broader and deeper understanding of the issues.

Niche Construction and Niche Differentiation

These are 2 more examples of factors that affect the evolution of technology:

Anthropology
Social Evolution is the ain hypothesis produced for human sciences specifically for
_______________.

Guglielmo Marconi
An Italian inventor pioneered long-distance radio transmission and transmitted the first
transatlantic radio signal from Cornwall to Newfoundland.

70s
Computers were introduced in the 19____.

Voyage Literature
These are stories of the 15th and 16th Century western pioneers.

Systems Theory
___________________ is a factor that affects the evolution of technology

Twitter
It was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Business Stone, and Evan Williams in 2006. Rapidly
gained popularity as of 2017 has 100 million daily active users.

Combinatorial Evolution
According to Brian Arthur, technological evolution happens because of the phenomenon he calls
as

Pheidippides
An Athenian Herald or Courier was said to have run from Marathon to Athens to report that the
Greeks won against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
Be Collaborative
This principle not only brings all other principles together but is actually part and parcel of each
and every principle of digital development.

Selection Pressure
_____________________ is a factor that affects the evolution of technology which pertains to
the pressure from the market which makes the innovation adjust to its needs?

Cultural Variation
This pertains to the differences in tastes, choices, or pressure from society that affects how
technology evolves in different markets or geographical locations.

Samuel Morse
1840s was the time the telegraph was created by _____________.

Build for Sustainability

One of the principles of Digital Development which is about ensuring user and stakeholder
support be maximized and uninterrupted.

Social Progress
What Social Development definition of Herbert Spencer refers to "society always moves toward
an ideal setting"?

Continual Learning
__________________ is critical for anyone to be able to understand the changing values and
behavior patterns of people in the now that affect the future

FALSE
Two innovations cannot co-exist and compete in the same niche.

TRUE
The long waves of social evolution are benchmarked with technology.

FALSE
Access to and availability of more information does not enable interlinkages.

FALSE
Data Innovation has not really positively affected the financial sector of the present worldwide
economy.

FALSE
A term to portray the level of accomplishment in science, arithmetic and designing of a gathering
or culture is an incorrect definition of technology.

FALSE
The Battle of Marathon saw the Persians winning against the Greeks.
TRUE
Darwin portrayed organic/hereditary development as containing three key segments: variety,
rivalry (or determination), and legacy.

TRUE
As a means of communication, homing or transporter pigeons were used by Romans and Greeks
in ancient times.

Time
The long waves of evolution depict how technology has advanced through ___________.

Leipzig
The first daily newspaper was published in _______________, Germany.

Digital Age
It is a period in human history that started when computers were introduced in the 1970s. It is
evident in the rapid shift from mechanical industrialization to technological innovation.

FALSE
Achieving scale is a goal that has been easy for digital development practitioners.

Design with the User

One of the principles of Digital Development which can only be attained through conversation,
observation, and co-creation with the people, client, or target market who will be using the
eventual digital product or tools.

FALSE
Some benefits of ICT in the education sector are online banking & access to patient records.

FALSE
Lewis Henry Morgan was the first to react to the "voyage literature" of western pioneers who
brought back reports of newfound plants, creatures, and social orders.

W.F. Ogbum
A scholar who defines social change as evidenced by material changes in the environment and
the adjustments we as humans make modifies customs and social institutions

Determination Theory
______________ A sociological Perspective that says as man progresses so as man's needs and
wants thus he/she is determined to have more because this dissatisfaction.

Active
A ___________footprint is made when individual information is discharged intentionally by a
client to share data around oneself by methods for sites or internet

Religious Stage
______________ This is a stage of social change when society's action is dictated by a belief in a
supernatural power

Philosophic Stage
______________ This is a stage of social change that led to abstraction because of society's
belief in supernatural powers

Computational Science
______________ is the coordinated, interdisciplinary quest for social request and focus on data
preparation

Oswald Spengler
A sociologist who made a comparison of the Roman Empire which rose to power but eventually
collapsed

Noise in DATA
Characterized by the nearness of the insignificant information which prompts the expanding the
measure of information to be broke down, yet in addition builds the cost of administration,
stockpiling abuse and nearness of obsolete information in your vault.

Cost
A major factor and as the information measure is expanding the price that has been expanding
exponentially.

Karl Marx
A sociologist who believes that "Economic Factor" is the one and ONLY cause of Social
Change.

Arnold J. Tonybee
A sociologist who is a proponent of the Cyclical Theory that believes society will undergo the
stages of growth, half and eventual decline of civilization

Leslie White
An Anthropologist who said that technology and the way it is used determines the forms of
culture and society

Cellphone
______________ is considered to be the most important technological invention of man

Passive
A ___________footprint is made when information is acquired without the knowledge of the
proprietor

Technology
______________ is the application of human knowledge in creating tools and the use of natural
resources
Privacy Control
No assurance that even the examiners with Big Data affirmation won't alter your information or
abuse it to their own assent. Every single individual data of yours is being shared and some place
put away which can be effortlessly abused.

Positive Stage
______________ This is a stage of social change when society's action is dictated studies done
empirically

Informational Index
______________ refers to any type of information like records, tables or accumulations

Lack of SECURITY
Possibility of abuse or revelation of data

Bad Analytic Reports

Implies a foul or wrong aftereffect of your information translation. This by and large happens
when you incline toward going for an uncertified expert as opposed to an examiner with a Big
Data confirmation.

Volfredo Pareto
A sociologist who focused on the role of elites in the society. He proposed that society is one
"whole" but has interdependent parts.

Big Data
______________ refers to the non-customary techniques and advancements expected to
assemble, sort out, process and accumulate bits of knowledge from huge datasets

Herbert Spencer
A sociologist who compared social change to a microorganism. He postulates that society is
inherently militant and struggled for survival.

Auguste Comte
A sociologist who believes that society will undergo a religious, philosophic and a positive stage.

Social Change
______________ refers to the change in the relationships or interrelationships of people in a
society.

FALSE
Society is permanent

TRUE
The time frame when change is measure is important in determining what social change is
TRUE
There is a tendency for man to move from happiness to discontent according to the
Determination Theory

TRUE
Technological advancements has contributed to the protection of environment in terms of
utilizing machineries/inventions to reduce waste e.g recycling process

TRUE
Technological Innovations has threatened our security

FALSE
Advancements in technology has accounted for humanity's happiness and advancement

TRUE
Huge amount of data can also refer to large datasets

FALSE
Social change is not observable in small groups

TRUE
The cellular phone has found other use aside from as a means of communication.

FALSE
Some social changes e. g. automation in labor has increased the employment percentage.

TRUE
E-Science traces it's roots back in the 1950s when specialists and researchers utilized the PC

FALSE
The term e Science however was formally introduced and authored by James Taylor in 1999

FALSE
Social change will eventually decline and stop

TRUE
In defining social change, the number of people affected should be taken into account

TRUE
The deterministic Theory is also called the single factor theory according to Karl Marx

TRUE
Technological change reaches everyone whether directly or indirectly

TRUE
Production of basic necessities and commodities contributed to social change
Match the name of the social scientist
to the picture

Capability
Central to the human development concept is what approach?

Connectivity
The ____________________ Market seeks to provide affordable and reliable internet access.

Disrupting for the last half-billion

The 10thmechanism necessary for global inclusion is

Great Britain
Industrialization beganaround the middle of the eighteenth century in ____________.

Skeptical Approach
The second wave of theoretical approach on globalization is ______________________.

Pakistan
Dr. Mahbub ul Haq who developed the concept of Human Development was from what country?

1990
In what year did Dr. ul Haq publish the first Human Development Report?

Content
The __________ Market seeks to create relevant uses or reasons for people to go online.

Millennium Declaration
World leaders adopted the ______________________________ and agreed on a set of ambitious
targets to be achieved by 2015.

Reduce Discovery Costs

_____________________ is another mechanism necessary for global inclusion.

Post-structuralist
________________ perspective posits that globalization is a set of connected events.

Fourth
The ________________ wave includes 4 main perspectives.

8 Millennium Development Goals

The UN Millennium Summit held last September of the year 2000 adopted
______________________.

Philanthropy
Love of humanity is the broad definition of ______________________.
Outsourcing
Third party sub-contracting by companies to cut costs and increase efficiency is called?

Insourcing
When one company hires another company to handle their supply chain.

Public
The second flattener is Netscape going __________.

Blockchain
_____________ are public records of transactions made in cryptocurrency.

Geographical Approach
___________________ is third wave of globalization theoretical discourse.

World Bank
When Dr. Mahhub ul Haq developed the concept of Human Development he worked in what
bank?

44
Only an estimated ___ percent of the world's population are connected to the global digital
economy.

Improve Social Services offerings

_____________________ is one mechanism necessary for global inclusion.

Everett Rogers
A rural psychologist whose study is focused on agricultural issues in the US and developing
countries

Trialability
Refers to the opportunity for the prospective user to use the product for testing on a limited time
basis. Actual hands on experience is necessary for the potential user to use the technology.

Information dissemination is up to date

Which of the following statements is NOT true about technological policies?

Men and women have the same access to innovation

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Digital Divide?

Modification
This is a type of vulnerability that happens when information that is stored is changed

Relative Advantage
Refers to the functionality of a certain innovation and how this innovation is accepted by users in
terms of economic edge, the prestige that comes along in using the innovation and convenience.
Esther Karwera
Created a STEM program to incorporate small farm holders to the agriculture industry of her
country

Diffusion of Innovation
DOI is a study that is aimed at understanding the what, when, why and how new technological
innovations advancements and ideas spread across cultures in the world. DOI stands for....

Neha MIsra
Created aa training program to provide connectivity through the use of solar electricity

Destruction
This is a type of vulnerability that happens when vital information, software or hardware are
destroyed intentionally of for malicious reasons.

You Tube
Aside from FB, Which of the following is ranked next on top as the most famous Social
networking site as of April 2018?

Diffusion
_______________refers to the procedure when innovation is accepted in community of a group
of people

Observability
Refers to the opportunity for the user to see the results of a particular innovation. If this is
satisfied, the prospect or potential user will most likely adopt to it.

Education
_______________is one of the determinants of digital divide that refers to having the necessary
skills to understand innovation

Income
_______________is one of the determinants of digital divide that refers to the ability and
capability to purchase and access technology

Interruption
This is a type of vulnerability that happens when network cannot be accessed or that service is
denied

Active Internet Users

_______________in the latest April 2018 statistics of the Global Digital Population, the highest
number would be from the group of
Interception
This is a type of vulnerability that happens when information that is stored is submitted is
illegally copied

Ana Maria Martinez

Created a Training program to identify and provide for women coders

Infrastructure
_______________is one of the determinants of digital divide that refers to having the hardware
support to access technology

Disclosure
This is a type of vulnerability that happens when vital information is revealed by unauthorized
users.

Complexity
Refers to the degree of difficulty involved in using or understanding the innovation. It be also
being referred to as ease of use and how simple the innovation is.

Digital Divide
_______________refers to the gap in terms of skills people have in the use of technology and
accessing and analyzing information

Compatibility
Refers to the consistency of an innovation in terms of present values, past experiences and the
need of a potential user compare to other existing innovations

Digital Divide
_______________refers to the gap between people who have internet access and those who do
not have internet access.