IT CHAPTER 4.3-4.5

• Resources


  The total means available to a company for increasing production or profit, including land, labor, capital, and raw materials
• Information as a resource


  Facts about something or someone that are provided or learned
• Information as a resource


  • Expandable
  • Compressible
  • Transportable
  • Diffusive
  • Sharable
• Value of information


  Helps organizations become globally competitive and be up to date with the latest trends and technology
• Characteristics of information as a resource


  • Zero marginal cost
  • Non-rivalrous
  • Non-exclusive
  • No transparency
• Information overload


  The excess of information available to a person aiming to complete a task or make a decision, impeding the decision-making process
• Information is now available so quickly, ubiquitously, and inexpensively
• Reasons for rapid increase in information production


  • Easy duplication and transmission of information
  • Increase in communication methods
  • Growth archives of historical information
• Information control


  Allowing those with appropriate authority access to and use of information
• Software piracy


  • Distributing software or mobile apps in violation of license terms
  • Installing a single copy on multiple devices without authorization
  • Making and/or sharing copies of installation CDs
  • Sharing login credentials for web-based software
• Information control


  • Convergence
  • Scale
  • Volume
  • Unprecedented individual empowerment/user-generation of content
• Convergence


  Technological advancements and social media have paved the way for media content such as music and movies to be distributed from their "traditional" distribution platforms
• Scale


  The internet has given everyone access to anything they would like to search, upload, and download anywhere in the world
• Volume


  News and media outlets abound in print and online
• Unprecedented individual empowerment


  The popularity of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram has made it possible for individuals to post anything they want
• How do we control information dissemination? One solution they have come up with is identifying exclusive rights to information, as with any given physical asset. This has led to the identification of intellectual property rights.
• Intellectual property (IP)


  Refers to a number of distinct types of intangible assets for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized
• Intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Philippines


  • Copyright and related rights
  • Trademarks and service marks
  • Geographic indications
  • Industrial design
  • Patents
  • Layout designs (topographies) of Integrated Circuits (ICs)
  • Protection of undisclosed information
• Copyright


  Provides protection for original expression which includes literary, artistic, scholarly, and scientific creations
• Digital rights


  The permission granted to individuals to legitimately perform actions involving the use of a computer, any electronic device, or a communications network
• Digital rights management (DRM)


  The processes by which the author or publisher of a work exerts his or her rights to control what the purchaser of the work is entitled to do
• Techniques to control access and reproduction of online information


  • Encryption
  • Serial Keys
  • Scrambling
  • Tag Embedding
• Encryption


  The process of converting data or information in such a way that only authorized parties can understand
• Serial keys


  A series of alphanumeric characters acting as a key to denote that the product or software is original
• Scrambling


  Data scrambling is done to hide sensitive information from unauthorized users
• Tag embedding


  Similar to how pictures can include watermarks to denote information on the owner of the picture, tag embedding does the same to information content
• Patent


  A set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention
• Trademark


  A distinctive sign used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify the products or services to consumers
• Protection of Undisclosed Information


  Industries and companies need to have information control especially in dealing with sensitive industry secrets
• Information


  Facts about something or someone that are provided or learned
• Data


  Facts that are processed to become information
• Trade secret


  Any method, formula, device, process, or any information that gives the business a unique competitive advantage over its competition
• Information


  • Expandable
  • Compressible
  • Transportable
  • Diffusive
  • Sharable
• Information privacy


  The relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them
• Complete information


  Contains all the important facts
• Data Privacy Act 10173 is a law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal, or sensitive
• Economical information


  Relatively cheap to produce
• Reliable information


  Can be depended on
• Flexible information


  Can be used for different purposes
• Relevant information


  Important to the decision-maker