CIS 403: SOCIAL COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS
| Institution | UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI |
| Course | BACHELOR OF INFORMAT... |
| Year | 4th Year |
| Semester | Unknown |
| Posted By | stephen oyake rabilo |
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| Pages | 10 Pages |
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Social computing and informatics brings together people, technology, information and innovation. People, organizations, industries and communities interact, connect and collaborate in social context. Digital systems support online research, education, health, communication and entertainment. Organizations harness the power of social computing and informatics to enhance business transactions and boost reputation. Amazon applies social computing to engage and captivate customers, boasting impressive 27.8 million Facebook page likes and 2.7 million followers. Amazon promptly and directly responds to the customers on Facebook, swiftly addressing all comments and ensuring that clients are well satisfied with the services. Due to comprehensive collection of feedback and reviews from the previous customers, effectively demonstrating the excellence of its products and services, most people trust Amazon. Hence, without digital systems and connections to the Internet nothing can be achieved. Bachelor of Information Science (BIS) level four or fourth year consists of 10 core course units or subjects, with 5 course units per semester. BIS CIS 403: Social Computing and Informatics explores human-computer/human-machine/human-machine product interactions and its impact in the society.
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TOPIC 1-2: INTRODUCTION TO ICT
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Information is derived from processing the data i.e. its first meaningful resources and therefore when processed manually, mechanically or electronically, information is obtained. Such form of processing task takes the form of classification, sorting, calculating, summarizing etc.
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TOPIC 3-4: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
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This is the smallest element in computer file. The bit notation forms the basis of the computer working and as such it is impossible for the human beings to appreciate its use and that is why for the logical files, which are the view of the file user, the bits are not significant.
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TOPIC 5-6: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
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A system is an organized, purposeful structure regarded as a whole and consisting of interrelated and interdependent elements. These elements continually influence one another (directly or indirectly) to maintain their activity and the existence of the system in order to achieve the goal of the system.
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TOPIC 7-8: INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN AN ENTERPRISE
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An information system is a set of interrelated components that work together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to support decision making, coordination, control, analysis and visualization in an organization.
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TOPIC 9-10: DATA COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER NETWORKS
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DATA COMMUNICATION is the electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers). Telecommunication equipment are used to support data communication. Data refers to facts, concepts and instructions that are presented in the format that can be understood by all the parties involved.
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TOPIC 11: INTERNET AND E-COMMERCE
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The Internet is a public network that allows access to a number of users globally with no time and location limitations. It’s commonly referred to as information superhighway because it is assumed that any information can be acquired from the Internet and can be added to the internet websites. It can also be defined as a wide area network (WAN) that enables organizations and individuals to communicate globally. Certain protocols like SMTP for e-mail, FTP for a file transfer and HTTP for accessing/transferring web pages are important when describing the internet.
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TOPIC 11: LEGAL, ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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Ethics refer to the principles of right and wrong that individuals who act as free moral agents use to make choices that will guide their behavior. Although protecting personal privacy and intellectual property are on the spotlight, there are other pressing ethical issues brought about by the widespread use of information systems. This is because ICT can be used to commit crime or to threaten social values.
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BAF 315: AUDITING I
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ISA 315 further states that the auditor should obtain an understanding of the accounting and internal control systems sufficient to plan the audit and develop an effective audit approach. The auditor should use professional judgment to assess audit risk and to design audit procedures to ensure it is reduced to an acceptably low level.
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Explanation of Simplex Method 1
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The Simplex method is an approach to solving linear programming models by hand using slack variables, tableaus, and pivot variables as a means to finding the optimal solution of an optimization problem.
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BASIC STATISTICAL CONCEPTS
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Statistics is a mathematical body of science that pertains to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data, or as a branch of mathematics. Some consider statistics to be a distinct mathematical science rather than a branch of mathematics. While many scientific investigations make use of data, statistics is concerned with the use of data in the context of uncertainty and decision making in the face of uncertainty.
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