I am honor to invite ICAC senior officer – Ms. Katherine Ma giving guest
talk to my students in courses named COMP 3511 – Legal Aspects and Ethics of
Computing and COMP 3512 – Legal Aspects, Professionalism and Ethics of
Computing in the Department of Computing, PolyU on 3 & 11 Apr 2025. Each
class has near 120 students and COMP 3512 is not only for computing students
but also engineering students. ICAC
guest talks aimed to equip our students’ anti-bribery concepts and business
ethical dilemma. I presented appreciation certificate to Ms. Katherine Ma before
the class.
I also selfie with Katherine and students for memory.
In the beginning, Ms. Ma gave outlines of the talk included Why
professional ethics matters, Corruption prone areas, Prevention of Bribery
Ordinance and Ethical decision.
After that she surveyed students about common corruption risks in
computing and IT industries. Students replied different factors such as leak of
data, procurement fraud, selling data, etc.
She also explained what is “Advantage” defined by the ordinary.
In the second class, I also presented appreciated certificate to Ms.
Katherine Ma before the talk.
She played two videos for different scenarios and asked student any
violation of laws and any advantages involved.
Students poll results are hacking software, disclosing private
information and data leakage that could be common corruption risk. COMP
students replied more technically.
At the end, Ms. Katherine Ma used the words ETHICS PLUS as conclusion.
ETHICS stands for E-Establish facts, T-Track stakeholders, H-Have assessed
positions, I-Identify alternatives, C-Compare options and S-Select action.
PLUS stands for P-Professional, L-Legal requirements, U-Uncompromising
self-vales and S-Sunshine test.
