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Professionalism & Professional responsibilities

What is computing profession

  • Lack of accreditation, certification or licensing.
    • Not single organisation of members for the computing profession
  • But
    • The harms enabled by computing mean that people doing computing as a job of work still have important ethical obligations

Computing Code of Ethics

  1. General expectations of professional conduct
  2. Exercise due diligence in professional work
  3. Avoid discrimination
  4. Respect intellectual and intangible property
  5. Always act in the public good
  6. Whistleblowing