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PPC – 301005 Ethical and Sustainability Report

   

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Running head: ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTEthical and Sustainability ReportName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note:
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1ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTExecutive SummaryThe main aim of this report is to understand the basic concept of information andcommunications technology or ICT. This is understood with the help of a case study related toICT. Moreover, the case study is judged on the basis of ethical code of conduct in anyorganization. The case study selected in this report is the Verizon Wireless case study of theUnited States of America. Another example is also provided of such swindle of unethical andbreaching.
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2ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTTable of ContentsIntroduction..................................................................................................................................3Discussion...................................................................................................................................3Information and Communications Technology.........................................................................3Code of Conduct......................................................................................................................5Verizon Wireless Case Study...................................................................................................5Similar Case Studies................................................................................................................6Judgment.................................................................................................................................7Conclusion...................................................................................................................................8References..................................................................................................................................9
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3ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTIntroductionInformation and communications technology or ICT is the extension of informationtechnology. ICT mainly integrates telecommunications like wireless signals, telephone lines withcomputer systems. The users mainly utilize ICT for accessing, storing, retrieving, transmittingand manipulating the information (Martin, Kinross and Hankin 2017). Moreover, the middleware,audio video systems, enterprise software and storage are also integrated utilizing informationand communications technology. The process of integration of telecommunications and severalInternet enabled systems in order to perform any type of information related functions likestoring, manipulating, retrieving, accessing and transmitting (O’Dowd 2017). There is a constantchange in the methods, the concepts and the applications that are involved with information andcommunications technology. Ethics are the set of certain rules or principles that help in guidingthe behaviour of an individual or guiding in conducting of a particular activity. In other words,ethics is a section of knowledge, which deals with all types of moral principles. Ethics ismaintained or followed by all organizations. These help them to understand the basic differencebetween right and wrong and how to apply this understanding in their work place and decisions(O'Gorman and McDonald 2012). The set of rules or principles that are followed by theorganizations is known as the Codes of Conduct or Code of Ethics.The following report describes about a real time case study related to information andcommunications technology or ICT. This case study is also evaluated on the basis of ethics orethical codes of conduct (Patel et al. 2013). The report outlines about the famous case study ofthe telecommunications company namely, Verizon Wireless. They were involved in a hugeswindle in the month of July 2017. The report describes about the detailed research about thecase study of Verizon. Relevant information is provided about the case study. The case study isjudged or analysed on the basis of professional codes of conduct. DiscussionInformation and Communications TechnologyInformation and communications technology or ICT helps to store, retrieve, manipulate,transmit and access any type of information by utilizing this technology. This is basically theintegration of telecommunication techniques and various Internet enabled systems (Patel et al.2013). ICT mainly integrates telecommunications like wireless signals, telephone lines with
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