chapter1

Response-1:

This chapter exclusively covered the theory of development and impacts of national and international policies on IT. It taught us about how an organization and an individual should adhere to the regulations, which are the results of frequent shifts in IT policies globally. Going forward this course is subject to teach students on how to develop sophisticated strategies that should help the industry to easily adapt the regulations. The global IT is a paradigm shift that keeps on changing the policies as per industry need and standards. Each organization frequently change their policies based on the adoption of new technologies. Also understood that the main reason for the failure if most of the projects in older days are because of the resource scarcity and resource contention. Learnt only 11% of the resources are involved in project planning due to which 70% of the projects failed to produce results. Later on, the industry realized the reason behind the project failures and established the regulations by establishing the governance methodology on whole IT of the company and governance on individual data components.

The main objectives that are achieved by establishing the regulations are.

1. Breaking up a problem into smaller pieces, in order to understand it more.

2. It helps us to keep things organized.

3. It identifies where we need to focus more.

Also learnt about the types of policies in IT, like Public and Private. How public policies affect the industry and how the privacy policy affects.

Reference:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-4328-9_16

https://www.nap.edu/read/1101/chapter/2

Response-2

The policymaking in the digital age is highly benefited by the rapid growth of social media as well as the computational power and data. These are responsible for creating the new opportunities results in the innovative policymaking and the governance policy. The social media and the computational power of data have a significant effect on the life cycle of the policy making. After reading chapter 1, it is understood that the technological innovation have improved the policymaking processes and procedures.

The policymaking process deals with societal problems. Social media is playing an important role in the social and the political aspects of the world. It provides a platform for connections and the vast opinions. The rapid growth of social media has resulted in the increased connectivity and there are large number of people migrate online and influence the people to whom they are connected. It acts like a platform where people can engage politically to address the societal process. It also makes it easier to react to mass media in case if there is a need to obtain the information regarding various policies. It also helps in achieving dynamic interaction between the people and the policymakers which is essential for ensuring that problems are addressed efficiently.

Reference

Bertot, J. C., Jaeger, P.T., Hansen, D. (2012). The impact of polices on government social media usage: Issues, challenges, and recommendations. Gov Inform Q 29:30–40