Technology and society
The impacts of computing: privacy and the law, copyright and licences, the environment, the digital divide, accessibility, AI and bias, work and daily life, ending with an impact report on the robots themselves.
Start in the simulator- F12.1 Impacts of technology Ethical, legal, cultural, environmental and privacy impacts, stakeholders, and weighing them up.
- F12.2 Personal data and privacy What personal data is, the Data Protection Act 2018, and anonymising a log.
- F12.3 Computer misuse and the law The Computer Misuse Act 1990, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
- F12.4 Copyright and licences Proprietary and open source software, common licences, and Creative Commons.
- F12.5 Technology and the environment Making, running and disposing of devices: materials, data centres, e-waste and what helps.
- F12.6 The digital divide and accessibility Who is shut out of technology, designing for disability, and measuring colour contrast.
- F12.7 AI, robots and bias What AI is good for, where it goes wrong, and auditing a training set for bias.
- F12.8 Technology, jobs and daily life Automation and work, how daily life changed, and how automatable a job is.
- F12.9 Project: an impact report Read the trial log, anonymise it, cost its energy and carbon, and publish a report.