Syllabus

=ITGS Syllabus details=

Basics: hardware & networks

 * System fundamentals
 * Networks

Applications

 * Software fundamentals
 * Databases & spreadsheets
 * Word processing & desktop publishing
 * Images, sound & presentations
 * Modelling & Simulations
 * Tutorials, training & wizards

Communication systems

 * The Internet
 * Personal & public communications

Integrated systems

 * Robotics
 * Artifical intelligence & expert systems

Social & ethical issues
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 * Reliability
 * Integrity
 * Security
 * Privacy & anonymity
 * Authenticity
 * Intellectual property
 * Equality of access
 * Control
 * Globalization & cultural diversity
 * Policies & standards
 * People & machines

Areas Of Impact

 * Business and employment
 * Education
 * Health
 * Arts, entertainment and Leisure
 * Science and the environment
 * Politics and the government

//Social issues//
"The analysis of social issues can be guided by answering the following key questions.


 * 1) What are the social issues associated with a particular IT development?
 * 2) How did the IT development emerge?
 * 3) Who are the stakeholders—individuals, institutions, societies who initiate and control the IT developments and are affected by them?
 * 4) What are the advantages and disadvantages for the stakeholders?
 * 5) What feasible solutions can be applied to overcome problems?
 * 6) What is the social impact of the IT development on human life? This may include some or all of the following areas: economic, political, cultural, legal, environmental, ergonomic, health and psychological.
 * 7) What are the social impacts on local and global communities?' (IBO 2006)

//Ethical issues//
The analysis of ethical issues can be guided by answering the following key questions from the IB syllabus.


 * 1) "What are the ethical issues associated with a particular IT development?
 * 2) Who is responsible?
 * 3) Who is accountable?
 * 4) What policies, rules or laws apply to the situation?
 * 5) What are the alternative ethical decisions?
 * 6) What are the consequences of these decisions?"