Friday, October 11, 2019

Portfolio Requirements Essay

Section A Now, in no more than a one page Word document (aim for around 500 words), create a new list, once again prioritizing the MDGs and targets from development you would like to see in your country. However, this list should not only be the original list that you placed in the Discussions: it should also incorporate the replies you got from your peers and the Discussions that took place in the rest of your group. Include on this one page an explanation of how you arrived at your final list, by referring to the replies you got from your peers and the Discussions that took place in the rest of your group. It is also important that in this page, you explain your view on how you compare â€Å"happiness† to increased economic wealth. Submit your one page Word document via the Assignments tool. Section B In no more than a one page Word document (aim for around 500 words), create a new set of answers. However, this list should not only be the original list that you placed in the Discussions: it should also incorporate the replies you got from your peers and the Discussions that took place in the rest of your group. Also incorporateinto this one page some additional information that you were able to add to your answers by exploring the Internet – don’t forget to include the web addresses of the pages where you gathered this information. Submit your one page Word document via the Assignments tool. Section C Students who successfully complete this assignment will be able to present critical arguments around ICTs for development projects and demonstrate their capabilities related to engaging with textual and numerical data to present information in a presentation format. Locate any project where ICTs were applied in contexts such as those described in this chapter, in your local community, own city, province or country, or elsewhere in the world and/or that you have been involved with. Ensure that you identify the following aspects in your case study: 1. Title  of the project 2. Website address(es) that provide information about the project 3. Introduction & Background, including details on the project Rationale (what was the reason for the project/why was it needed?) Start date, duration (this far) and status (ongoing, completed, etc.) 4. A description of the project, including details on The ICT4D solutions that was used in the project The strengths and weaknesses of the project 5. You could also add things like Major partners Major stakeholders Who initiated the process? Who were the target beneficiaries? Who were the service providers? How did the initiative work? Was there a local champion (some-one from the local community who represented the interests of that community)? Create a PowerPoint presentation of no more than 8 slides that provide the information as detailed above. Submit your presentation via the Assignments tool. Section D Portfolio Section D: Ethics, Copyright and IPR in Computer labs In the normal course of their teaching duties, several lecturers have reported finding pirated software improperly installed on the computers in the computer labs. Lecturers also found that students have copied and pasted materials from various Internet resources into their own assignments and reproduced them as if they were their own. This, they find, is a common problem among their students. Before taking a decision on what should be done, lecturers asks you, as students, for your inputs to decision-making. Submit your answers to the following questions in either a one page Word document (aim for around 500 words) or a PowerPoint presentation of no more than 8 slides in the Assignments tool: 1. What are the ethical and IPR issues that the faculty are confronted with? 2. What are the steps that the faculty should  take to address the ethical and IPR issues? 3. If you were the student who copied and was caught for plagiarism, what are the consequences you would expect?

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