Project - Entrepreneurial Strategy with Ethical Impacts & Safeguards:
"Interpretation and Application of the Court Case Analysis to New Entrepreneurial Efforts"
INDIVIDUAL Work
Due: Oct.15 , 11pm
Points 40 points
Evaluation Guidelines (see Canvas)
Goal: You are going to apply your understanding of a real-world computer ethics case to help ethically develop a new/entrepreneurial tech concept. This will help you further understand how computing and social responsibility can be effectively demonstrated through :
1. Predicting how social, political and economic institutions' interests can conflict.
2. Development of ideas to prevent these conflicts.
Assignment:: Using your analysis of a real computer ethics court case to guide you, you will create a report focused on potential ethical issues and safeguarding against them for your group's choosen Entrepreneurial Concept for the Entrepreneurial+Ethics assignment. This is INDIVIDUAL work as stated above. The report will have the following elements:
Writing Expectations: read the information on citation requirements &writing help
Reports will be graded on both qualitative and quantitative narrative description/details, the strength of your argumentation, and writing style, spelling, and grammar.
- You must write in complete, grammatical English sentences, organized into well-composed paragraphs. No outlines are allowed.
Overal Requirements
You will create a pdf report with a minimum of 500 words (Original writing, NOT including any references or quoted test/tables) -- THIS must be 100% original writing (by you).
A starting point for many Entrepreneurial Startups in Computing is the creation of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You are going to describe one key OKR for your company (as chosen in your new/entrepreneurial tech project) and the related ethical impacts and ways to safead as follows. You must organize your paper and keep the section names highlighted in blue.
- Example (not complete): Developing technology to monitor at-home stroke patients and you are using cameras and machine learning to monitor the patient's facial changes.
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Ideas: for your stroke patient system. EX1: One potential OKR would be the seemless easy operation of the at home system which would involve automatic monitoring. What kind of potential data privacy issues can this cause? EX2: Another potential OKR would be to achieve 99% accuracy with the machine learning model. What are the ethical impacts -one would be that the data collected was too narrow or simple to achieve higher accuracy. For instance, the data may be biased and only taken from young subjects. This is unethical as it could mean in use that older subjects will not have the same accuracy as what is reported. EX3:Another OKR could be to have 80% user acceptance based on the average score of a user survey given to 100 customers. This could be interpreted as having the potential ethical issue of not collecting enough customer data or again some kind of bias in the selected customers (say customers with technical backgrounds that are comfortable with using technical systems) which could lead to skewed metric data.
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who would be involved in helping to design this safeguard (will you have ethical experts or context experts and how will you find the).
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how you would implement the safeguard(s)
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can you measure its effectiveness and if so how?
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Some BRIEF ideas (not fully written) EX1: One method of alerting the user to the fact they are being recorded is to have an auditory (announcement at start) and visual (blinking light) indicators that recording is starting/occuring. Maybe a UI and Accessibility designer can be consulted with. EX2: One way to safeguard against inadequate data collection would be to require a minimum number of data samples from every demographic (in this case age, you could set up age brackets of every 10 years and require a minimum of 1000 samples for each age bracket). Who will determine what are appropriate brackets? Can you involve your customers in this determination? EX3:In this example (user acceptance), again a larger number of customers and specifying a distribution of customers based on technical savvy (and other demographics) could be performed to alleviate reporting skewed metrics(you should go into detail about how this distribution is formed). Again who will determine what is not biased?
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1: Company Summary: Brief Description of your Startup Company's Service/Product (keep this to 1-2 paragraphs)
2:ONE Objective and Key Result OKR: List ONE key milestones/checkpoints described by a OKR (read here about OKRS w/ Examples) that involves your startup's customers as it relates to the tech product/service your company will offer. Describe it in detail, making sure to discuss all of the stakeholders (interested parties) in this OKR - (who, when, how they are effected). Make sure you discuss your customer base's demographics. Consider factors such as income, race, gender, interests. Also, discuss all organizations or governments that are stakeholders. Explain the replationship between the stakeholders.
3: Ethical Impact(s)/Issue(s). For this OKR discuss all the ethical impact/issues that can arise related to this outcome for your entrepreneurial startup. Take the knoweldge you gained in your real-world computer ethics case to predict what might be a potential ethical impact. You must quote ONE reference to a real-world case with a similar impact. Consider quoting from this case (or other cases you have read about) to support your claim of this being a potential ethical issue. Make sure you use the IEEE/ACM citation format and list every reference in the reference section.
4: Ethical Safeguards. For your chosen OKR and its Ethical Impact(s)/Issue(s) you are to develop safeguards on how to avoid or reduce the ethical impacts. Cite references (minimum 1) that support the use of the proposed ethical safeguard(s). Make sure that you describe the safegruad (can even include pictures) in detail and discuss:
5: References. list your references using ACM/IEEE style (see above) and make sure every reference is cited in your writing.
Deliverables:
- REPORT: Due Oct. 15, 11pm
- Minimum of original 500 words (NOT including any quotes or non-original writing or references)
- Create PDF with the 5 sections labeled as stipulated above
- Upload to Canvas->Assignments-> "Entrepreneurial Strategy with Ethical Impacts AND Ethical Safeguards"