- Computer ethics involove the code of conduct to use information Technology in a responsible way.
- E-Commerce stands for Electronic Commerce,which refers to the transaction of goods and services online, using the internet.
- Fraud means purposefully misrepresenting facts to deceive another person for personal gains.
- Privacy is definded as the claim of individuals, groups, or insitutions to determine when,how,and to what extent information pertaining to them could be communicated to others.
- Secure data transmission ensures that the user's data travels through a secure environment that is resistent to penetration and hacking.
- Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) is a term referring to the legal property rights of a person over his/her creations both artistic and commerial.
- Software privacy refers to the theft of software through illegal coping of genuine programs or contourfeiting and circulation of products which are duplicate copies of the original.
- Plagiarism means using or imitating the language and thoughts of some other person and projecting that representation as to your original work.
- Digital property refers to any digital information related to you or created by you. It may stored online (in the cloud) or in an electronic storage device like a computer, a flash drive, or a mobile phone.
- Open source is a philosophy that promotes free access and distribution of an end product, usually software or a program,although it may extand to the implimentation and design of other products.
- The open-source model encourages collaborative participation,transparency, meritocracy and community-oriented development, where programmers publish their versions of the software back to the community.
- Open-source licencing encourages collaborative participation by allowing third parties to study,use,modify easily and redistribute the source code.
- proprietary software,also known as "closed-source software",is copyrighted software.These software may not be freely used,modified and distributed and are restricted by conditions predefined by its publishers,vendors or developer.
- The rise of ICT has generated a digital gap between people with extensive use of the internet (font runners) and those who have no access to modern technology (laggerds).This gap is referred to as Digital divide.
- The digital gap must be bridged with the efforts of both the government and the citizens of the nation.
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