RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

IT PROFESSIONALS
AND
THE SOCIETY
INTRODUCTION

There are two major trends of thoughts in the

relationship between technology and society, one
explains the development of technology as
predetermine and the changes that occur to our society
are because of technology, this trend of thought puts
technology as the shaper of society. Technology is
deterministic and a roadmap of technological change
can be constructed.
INTRODUCTION

• The other trend goes against the belief that

technology is a shaper of society, it believes that
society is the shaper of technology and by no means
technology is deterministic, this are called social
constructivism. Technology changes because of
pressure from society.
RELATIONSHIP

• IT professionals contribute in technological

improvements of societies.
• IT professionals do a number of different tasks. They
are the people who test, build, install, repair, or
maintain the hardware and software associated with
complex computer systems in one or more locations.
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• IT professionals provides hardware, software, or services

at a certain cost and within a given time frame.
• Society expects IT professionals to provide significant
benefits and to not cause harm through their actions.
• The society is considered a general user/customer of
what IT professionals produce or do for service.
HOW TO MAINTAIN THE
RELATIONSHIP

• The society and professionals must help each other

on improving their lives.
• Both groups should be morally/ethically intelligent.
MORAL ISSUES

• Privacy
• Security
• Data manipulation
SOLUTION
• Every individual should be responsible enough to
take care of their own data that they save in their
computers or upload in the internet.
• IT professionals must not use their profession in illegal
activities and follow the code of ethics of their
profession.
• The society should respect the professionals and not
blame them for failures in their service or generally
describe them as one.
SUMMARY

• The society id divided into two major groups: On the

one hand, there will be technophile people, who
embrace the new possibilities which Information
Technology offers to their lives.
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• On the other hand, there will be technophobic people,
who will obstruct the inroads of Information Technology
into their daily lives.
• We have to face the truth, technology changes the society
but to a way that the society wants to be changed into. IT
professionals design and create the technology so that
the society can be like what we want it to be. Society
changes technology and vice versa, but the change that
technology makes on the society is based on how society
wishes to be.