Technology And Communities
Overview
A nurse finishing a night shift in Abu Dhabi opens a video call and helps her daughter in Manila with homework she will never see handed in. A patient group scattered across nine countries compares symptoms of a disease so rare that none of them has ever met another sufferer in person. Communities used to be the people you could walk to. Increasingly they are the people you can reach.
This lesson looks at how communications technology holds communities together across borders, at the sharply divided views on what artificial intelligence, bionics and remote healthcare are doing to community life, and at a new class of threats, identity theft, malicious software and attacks on essential services, that arrive from outside a country's jurisdiction and are extremely difficult to answer.
Objectives
- The role of communications technology in international community building, using an example of a migrant or diaspora population
- New opportunities and threats for communities, including differing views on developments such as artificial intelligence or bionics, healthcare and/or other support services
- New and emerging threats to communities across national boundaries, such as identity theft, computer viruses and cyberterrorism
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- A 'diaspora' is best defined as: A) A government department responsible for migration B) A population that has spread from an original homeland while retaining ties to it and to each other C) A temporary refugee camp near a national border D) An international treaty on the movement of workers Answer: B
- Which statement correctly distinguishes a worm from a virus? A) A worm only affects mobile phones B) A worm spreads across a network by itself, while a virus needs a user to run or share an infected file C) A worm encrypts files while a virus deletes them D) A worm is written by governments and a virus by criminals Answer: B
- The WannaCry outbreak of May 2017 is best described as: A) A data breach that exposed three billion accounts B) Ransomware that spread rapidly to computers in over 150 countries and disrupted health services C) A denial-of-service attack on a single country's banks D) An attack that cut electricity supply to 230,000 customers Answer: B
- Which of the following is the strongest reason why a cochlear implant is contested within parts of the Deaf community? A) The operation is prohibitively expensive in every country B) The device cannot produce any perception of sound C) Some argue deafness is a linguistic and cultural identity rather than a defect to be corrected D) The device must be replaced every year Answer: C
- The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act, in force since August 2024, regulates AI systems primarily by: A) Banning all automated decision-making B) Requiring every system to be open source C) Sorting uses into risk categories, with the heaviest duties on high-risk uses D) Taxing companies according to the size of their data centres Answer: C
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