Chapter: A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment—A SoDIS Inspection

Quote:

Amatrix can be set up for each ethical rule such as “Don.t cause harm.” The column headers of the “Don.t cause harm” matrix are the stakeholders, such as the “developer” and the “customer,” and there is a row for each major requirement or task. The SoDIS analyst thenvisits each cell in the matrix, asking for each requirement whether meeting this requirement violates that obligation to the stakeholder.

What I expect to learn:

To conclude practical mechanism for ethical risk assessment

Review:                    

Everything in this world results from a choice, and comes with risk. Risk that you need to assess, manage and even diversify. You can never ever do something without risking something, that’s why you have to weigh up the possible consequences of decisions. A simple eating of your favorite pie might end you up in a room in one of the most expensive hospital in our country. A little decision might cause a million disasters. Disasters that is possibly reduced or diminished when properly assessed. Analysis of risk in any field is really important, in science, risk can cause the extinction of human race, in finance, financial crisis, just like what we are experiencing now, and as to advance technology like internet, invasion of privacy and furthermore, threat to security.

What I learned:

·         EVOLVING PRACTICES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT

·         Generic Standards for Risk Analysis Models

·         The Context

·         Risk Identification

·         Risk Analysis

·         Limitations of the Generic Standards

·         SODIS AUDIT PROCESS

·         Software Development Impact Statement

·         Stakeholder Identification

·         SoDIS Stakeholders Identification

·         Identification of Tasks or Requirements

·         Identify Potential Ethical Issues

·         Improve SoDIS Audit with an Inspection Model

·         THE SODIS AND UK ELECTRONIC VOTING REQUIREMENTS

Integrative Questions:            

1.    What is SoDIS?

2.    Explain the SODIS audit process.

3.    Explain the concept of risk identification?

4.    What is risk assessment?

5.    Is risk assessment necessary? Explain.