need help--Information Technology / security

Mid-Term Exam Review, IT 304 Fall Semester 2020

1. When did the steel, electricity and heavy engineering industries stage of industrial expansion came into picture?

2. Three stages of production: please choose the correct answer:

3. Labor productivity (output/labor input) is the best measure of prosperity.

False

Best measure of prosperity is GDP/Capita

4. Real growth should be measured as the rate of growth of GDP/Capita.

True

5. Improved access to communication technology can reduce poverty:

True

6. What do you think should be the role of the government in ensuring equitable access to Internet. Do you think governments should subsidize access to the Internet for poor people? Why/Why not.

No wrong answer. Should be substantiated.

7. Why is there a digital divide in a highly connected countries like United States? What causes this phenomenon?

Rural/urban divide, economic divide, age divide, etc

1770 1830

1870 1930

Design process is capital intensive 

Production process is capital intensive  Assembly process is skills intensive  None of the above

8. Please choose and briefly describe one of the approaches to ethics:

Virtue -reflects moral virtue is self and community

Utilitarian - greatest excess of benefits over harm

Fairness - treats everyone the same and shows no favoritism or preference

Common Good approach - advances the common good.

9. Please give one example of unethical behavior on internet

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

10. Please list at least one opportunity and one challenge presented by Internet

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

11. Connectivity has no correlation with GDP per capita:

False.

12. Please provide definition for economics in your own words.

Should include notion of production and trade in goods, services and resources.

13. How does high GDP correlate with high Internet connectivity?

High connectivity leads to higher GDP.

14. Please briefly describe mandate of International Telecommunications Union:

Manage spectrum, standards around telecoms and internet

15. What  factors contribute to economic growth?

Productivity

16. Please describe digital risks. How can they be controlled?

Control Inequality Concentration

They can be controlled with analog foundations of good business climate, governance and human capital.

17. Which term refers to the period of time when the population of the working age is high relative to young people and the elderly.

18. Which organizations have a role in Internet governance?

19. Which age is the age where we no longer need face to face interactions and can learn everything at our own pace online?

20. What are the types of Internet Governance ?

21. Please chose correct answer for categories of digital divide: 

Demographic window economic dependency ratio   labour force participation rates   None of the above

World Bank

Internet Governance Forum UNDP   Internet Society (ISOC) all of the above

Industrial age Chronological age

Information age Biological age

(a) National approach (b) Parliamentarian approach  (c) Multi stakeholder approach 

(d) A and C


 
 22. Digital divide is caused by Access, Affordability and ____________________________

23. Which of the following is a factor affecting labor productivity?

24. Economic growth takes place in stages driven by ________ paradigms

25. Africa has the greatest digital divide of all regions in the world 

True

26. Which one is not one of the approaches to ethics 

Women and elderly 
 
 Low income families  and people with disabilities 
 
 Rural population 
 


All of the above

connectivity

security advancement all of the above

worker skills and work habits business practices technological advancements

all of the above

Imperative

Techno-economic Object-Oriented all of the above

27. Please put the following stages of expansion into chronological order:

28. Please name additional two analog foundations 
 a. Good Governance 
 b. Human Capital
 c. Sound business climate 
 d. __________________
 e. __________________

Your choice, no wrong answer.

29. List three Digital Dividends:

Inclusion growth

Efficiency = jobs

Innovation services

30. What are ethical implications of new technologies on privacy?

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

Virtue approach to ethics Utilitarian approach to ethics 

Religious approach to ethics  Common good approach to ethics  Fairness approach to ethics  None of the above

Correct Order

5. Cotton textiles and new mechanical technologies 3. Age of steam power and railway 2. Petroleum, IC engines and mass production 1. Information technology and communications 4. Biotechnology, nanotechnology, social media, new materials, artificial intelligence, etc.

31. Please list countries that were able to leapfrog through digital divide?

Countries that had rapid not gradual development of digital technologies such as Korea, Singapore, India, Rwanda, Malaysia, Estonia.

EU and US had a gradual development of digital technologies spanning across decades.

32. Which country/countries will be the fastest growing in the future? Why?

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

33. What would be your recommendations for closing digital divide in a low-income country?

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

34. Why digital dividends are not spreading faster across the globe?

Digital divide constraint: access, affordability, security

35. What do you think of globalization? Should there be restrictions or caps on trade and other aspects of globalization?

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

36. What area of technology you believe has the greatest ethical risks? 

No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.

37. There is no correlation between productivity and GDP per capital?

False.