Lecture

1. What are ethics? Why needed?

2. Islamic code of ethics

3. Network etiquette (8 broad rules)

4. Brief overview of ACM code of ethics

5. How to acquire good ethics?

Today’s lecture outline

Ethics

Ethics is a major branch of philosophy,

encompassing right conduct and

good life.

Need: Good life---حياةطيبة

Be they men or women those who

believe and do what is right, We

shall surely endow with a good life; We

shall reward them according to their

noblest actions.

Islamic law (Shariah)

عبادات

حجزكاةصومصالةشهادة

What is Islam?

شريعة

Islamic Law

عقائدBelief

عباداتRitual

Worship

معامالتMonetary dealings

معاشرتSocial

conduct

اخالقMoral

Character

Islamic law (Shariah)

Basic principle for social conduct

Potential ICT related harm

work Et

Netiquette

Ethics and Netiquette

From: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

Remember the human

Communication on the Internet does not

replace/ substitute normal contact.

Netiquette

Ethics and Netiquette

Don’t abuse your new found anonymity

Adhere to the same standards of behavior

online that you follow in real life.

Spying and Backbiting

Ethics and NetiquetteO you who believe! Avoid much

suspicions, indeed some suspicions are

sins. And spy not, neither backbite one

another. Would one of you like to eat

the flesh of his dead brother?

Netiquette

Respect people's time and bandwidth

Avoid chain emails; large attachments;

Use a subject that defines your email;

Always read FAQs (discussion lists).

Before forwarding the next chain letter, check at www.snopes.com if it’s a hoax

Relaying of unfounded information

Ethics and NetiquetteO you who believe! If a rebellious evil

person comes to you with a news,

verify it, lest you harm people in

ignorance, and afterwards you become

regretful to what you have done.

Netiquette

Ethics and Netiquette

Avoid sloppy language/ grammar

Don’t use ALL CAPS (which denotes shouting)

Easy on the exclamation marks!!!!

Avoid using short forms in formal communication

Respect Ownership

Ethics and Netiquette

Respect/ acknowledge

intellectual property

Using someone’s property unjustly

Ethics and NetiquetteO you who believe! Do not consume

your property among yourselves

unjustly unless it be a trade amongst

you, by mutual consent.

Copy/ share/ modify/ sell rights

Ethics and NetiquetteAll Rights

Reserved

Some Rights

Reserved

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Ethics and Netiquette

(by:

Attribution)

(sa:

Share-alike)

(nd:

No derivates)

(nc:

Non-

commercial)

Netiquette

Ethics and Netiquette

From: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

Respect other people's privacy

Privacy and Confidentiality

O ye who believe! Enter not houses

other than your own without first

announcing your presence and

invoking peace upon the folk thereof.

That is better for you, that ye may be

heedful.

Netiquette

Ethics and Netiquette

From: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

Don’t abuse the power

entrusted to you

Fulfilling trust

O ye that believe! betray not the trust

of Allah and the Messenger, nor

misappropriate knowingly things

entrusted to you.

.. and fulfill your covenant; verily, the covenant will be asked about.

Netiquette

Ethics and Netiquette

Protect your Haya (modesty)

See no evil, hear no evil, do no evil

Live an online life of Taqwa!

Taqwa (parable): protecting one’s self on a thorny path

Man is accountable

Verily the hearing, the sight, and

the heart---all of them, they will be

questioned

Code of Ethics

1. Contribute to society and human well-being.

2. Avoid harm to others.

3. Be honest and trustworthy.

4. Be fair and take action not to discriminate.

5. Honor property rights including copyrights and patent.

6. Give proper credit for intellectual property.

7. Respect the privacy of others.

8. Honor confidentiality.

General Moral Imperatives

How to acquire

good ethics

1. Learning about knowledge

Can those who know and those

who do not know become equal? It

is only people of understanding

who are receptive of the advice

What is true knowledge

Only those of His slaves fear Allah

who are knowledgeable

2) Company of pious people (صحبة)

O you who believe, fear Allah, and

be in the company of the truthful

(Sadiqeen)

Today’s lecture summary

1. Why act ethically? Intention.

2. Islamic code of ethics

3. Network etiquette

4. Brief overview of ACM code of ethics

5. How to acquire good ethics?

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