Digital Divide
What is a digital divide?
The ‘space’ between those who have access to computers and the internet, and those who don’t
Are computing innovations beneficial, harmful or do they have both a beneficial and harmful impact on human life?
Computation innovations have both a beneficial and harmful impact on human life.
What are the 4 types of bias?
Documentation, instruction, algorithm, and language bias.
What technology exploded during the Pandemic and is now a household word?
Zoom
What concerns have arisen with the proliferation of technical information such as browsing history, cookies, geolocation, and survey requests?
They raise concerns about security and privacy.
What are the four causes of a digital divide?
Socioeconomic, geographic, demographic, and countries
What are some of the beneficial effects of social media?
Ability to share events and accomplishments, efficient global communication, and promoting new/existing business ventures.
Can bias in computing be unintentional?
Yes.
What is crowdsourcing?
Getting information from large groups of people on the internet
Which of the following is an approach to acquire somebody’s identity information?
Phishing
What is the most common reason for a digital divide?
Economy, the cost of technology is expensive. The income of a family plays a major factor in technology access
What are some of the harmful effects of social media?
Reduction of personal, human interaction, cyber bullying, and job productivity loss.
How can someone reduce bias in computing?
Use groups of different people in education and culture.
What is it called when scientific research is conducted with the information provided from the computing devices of many people who are not necessarily scientists?
Citizen Science
Attempts to get a large payment from a business by disabling it’s network is...
A ransomware attack
Why are remote countries such as Alaska or countries in a desert considered to be in the digital divide?
Remote access to technology that provides Internet or the government may shut down Internet access to portions of the country or the entire country
In what way can new technology and computing innovations be developed to prevent unanticipated problems that can emerge?
Having more diverse committees who develop new projects can include people with very different viewpoints that will have a significant impact on the creation and testing of new innovations.
A programmer wants to sort files alphabetically. The programmer who only knows Bubble Sort uses it in a program. He tests his program with a small amount of data, not using an accurate representation of the normal environment. Which type of bias is shown here?
Algorithm Bias.
How has crowdsourcing opened new methods of funding for social causes?
It uses collaboration to connects businesses with research scientists
In modern encryption, one or two keys are used. What actually is this key or keys?
It is a password that unlocks a program used for encryption.