1. Report on the delivery of the module “Privacy, Ethics, and Social Responsibilities” at the Joint M.Sc. Curriculum in Software Engineering Katerina Zdravkova keti@ii.edu.mk

2. Contents Module syllabus Teaching materials Module delivery – with M.Sc. students in Novi Sad – with B.Sc. students in Skopje Students’ results Student publications Related activities: – Tempus poster days Concluding remarks

3. Acknowledgements for the development of this module Katerina Zdravkova, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia Mirjana Ivanović, Dept. of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia Technical editor Developer

4. Module syllabus Ethics: normative frameworks, values, analysis approaches. Privacy: concepts of privacy, information privacy, information privacy legislative, privacy – the global perspective / privacy enhancing technologies. Trust: concepts and classification of trust; reliability. Security: information security, surveillance. Access: information access, software piracy. Property: intellectual property, ICT espionage. Social impact: social impact audit, cultural impact and ethnography, globalization. Conduct: professional conduct, codes of conduct, information risk management. Case studies.

5. The module in numbers TopicHoursSlidesSizeStatus Ethics41113,54Finished 90% Privacy51197,13Finished 95% Trust3665,23Finished 90% Security37711,60Finished 90% Access3588,19Finished 95% Property46710,30Finished 95% Social Impact4809,73Finished 80% Conduct4436,99Finished 75% Total3062163One more week

6. Module delivery University of Novi Sad: – M.Sc. students University of Skopje: – B.Sc. students in the fifth semester Announced interest to share the module: STRL, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

7. Report from Novi Sad Three cycles: – Last weekend in November – Last weekend in January – Last weekend in February Attended by 21 students (at least 15 have been present at all the lectures) All lectures have been recorded and part of them have already been finished

8. The module on Moodle

9. Assessment Coursework – Individual assignments – Small group team assignments – Larger group team assignments Additional activity (optional): – Preparation of papers for local and international conferences

12. Group assignment 1: comparisons Comparison between ancient and nowadays view of ethics Similarities and differences between computer, business, medical, and political ethics How much are information systems and computerised medical instruments in contradiction with Hippocrates Oath How much eBanking restricts privacy and anonymity

13. Group assignment 2: reviewing Problems caused by ICTs: – Programming dark side Viruses, warms, Trojan horses, … Consequences (financial, lose of data, …) – IT risks Hardware risks + consequences Software risks + consequences ICT espionage Privacy, security and data protection in: – Marketing – International cooperation – E-voting

14. Group assignment 3: discussion Professionalism and professional conduct: IT professional point of view Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct Information risk management - from auditing point of view

17. Student additional contribution Prepared conference paper (in Serbian): Ivan Mladenović, Olga Hotomski “Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct” Prepared and submitted conference paper for BCI2007 (I hope it will be accepted) Sanja Kekić, Gordana Rakić, Slobodan Đukić, Gordana Mijatović “How to recognise and Manage Information Risk Management”

18. Report from Skopje Whole semester module: 30 lecture hours 10 group assignments of average quality First e-testing: very poor results (74 students, the best with 73% of maximum points) Second e-testing: hacked questions and answers 

19. Related event: Tempus National poster week – March 2007

20. Concluding remarks Very nice experience Students were motivated to learn more Teacher was happy with the students Rebeca gave fruitful contribution New version of the module will be prepared during the summer Unsolved task: formal acceptance Special thank to Zoran Putnik for his support