The ethical principles of education and awareness should be introduced to recognise this. Rogerson foresees many benefits in online government, providing the pitfalls are avoided. For example, the vast investment it would entail would starve more traditional forms of their funding, and online government could reduce social interaction. The impact of IT is usually judged in terms of whether the planned gains in efficiency and effectiveness are realised, he says. But that isn t everything.
Good ethics mean good business.
We re In , to Charles Handy who wrote The Empty Raincoat . New Labour s post-election talk of the stakeholder economy , and the public pronouncements of some of our more prominent corporations suggest that, as a PR exercise at least, today s business world recognises the need for a more humanitarian form of capitalism via technology. There is worse to come, Soros predicts in his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism . It s difficult to escape the fact that the system itself was the main reason for the crisis. I can already discern the makings of the final crisis, he continues.