Tuesday, 7 June 2016
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-www.investinganswers.com/finacial-dictionary
Monday, 6 June 2016
Q.2.1. USE INFORMATION FLUENCY SKILLS TO ANALYZE THE GROUND BREAKING ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDINGS BY PROFERSOR LEE BERGER FROM WITS UNIVERSITY.
INFORMATION FLUENCY SKILLS
The information process about (Homo Naledi).
Ask
Analyse
The information process about (Homo Naledi).
Ask
- Who was Homo Naledi
- What was the significant about this discovery
- Information was acquired at the following website: http://ewn.co.za/features/Naledi
Analyse
- A team of archaeologist led by professor lee Berger undertook the rising star expedition and they had made history by discovering and salvaging fossils of at least an individual from the Dinaledi chamber. this was evolutionary discovery since a new species of hominines called Homo Naledi was found in the, remote chamber. Homo Naledi have distinct physical features that are astonishingly similar to that of human being such as:
- curved fingers
- small skulls
- slender bodies
- ape-like shoulders
- According to the finding highlighted in the Homo Naledi could be our common ancestor, therefore this suggest that it could had human characteristics both physical and mental as well as similar behavioural characteristics.
- The Dinaledi chamber could have been used as a burial ground where the newfound species could have performed burial rituals since none of the fossils had mark nor did they attend the chamber at the same time.
- Research was conducted thoroughly and the information was extracted from a good source.
- EWN online (2016). who is Homo? Accessed 9 April
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
POE;QUESTION 2;Findings of Lee Berger from Wits university.
Homo Naledi is an extinct species of hominin first described in 2015 and assigned by the anthropologists to the genus Homo.In 2013 fossil skeletons were found in south africa gauteng province in the Rising Star Cave system,part of the cadle or Humankind World Heritage Site.As of 10 september 2015 ,fossils of at least fifteen individuals amounting to 1550 specimens,have been excavated from the cave.
This species is characterized by a body mass and stature to small bodied human populations a smaller endocranial volume similar to Australopithecus and a skull shape similar to early Homo species.The skeletan anatomy presents ancestral features known from australopithecines with more recent features associated with hominins.The fossils have not been dated.
The fossils were discovered by recreational cavers Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker in 2013.Homo Naledi was formally described in september 2015 by a 47 members international team of authors led by American and South African paleonthropologist Lee Berger of the university of witwatersrand who proposed the bones represent a new homo species.
The word naledi means a star in the sotho language. It was choosen to correspond to the name of Dinaledi chamber of the rising star cave system where fossils were found.
QUESTION 7 CRITICALLY DISCUSS ABOUT HOW USERS ENABLE HACKERS TO OBTAIN THESE DETAILS MORE EASILY BY PROVIDING KNOWN COMPANIES WITH OUR DATA AND OVERVIEW HOW THEY CAN BE AVOIDED OR MIGRATED
Q7
CYBER attacks are a growing risk to business in South Africa, but neither the government nor business are doing enough to combat it, according to cyber security experts. A shortage of skills combined with a lack of urgency in implementing measures to tackle cybercrime have seen South Africa rank low on a number of cyber security assessments, according to Basie von Solms, director of the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Cyber Security. Cybercrime has a negative effect on South Africa’s productivity, national security and its attraction as an investment environment. SA Centre for Information Security CEO Beza Belayneh says South Africa is not doing well in global comparisons in terms of the number of victims and the amount of money lost. "Different surveys find SA is between third-and sixth-worst in cybercrime," he says. The 2013 Norton Report has found that South Africa has the third-highest number of cybercrime victims, after Russia and China. Cyber crime Prof von Solms says cybercrime is largely unregulated by government agencies. "Business is also guilty of not doing enough to tackle cybercrime, but government should be the guide," he says. The Cabinet passed the National Cyber Security Policy Framework in March 2012. It took another 18 months for the Department of Communications to appoint the National Cyber Security Advisory Council in October last year. The framework is supposed to co-ordinate government actions on cyber security and ensure co-operation between the government, the private sector and civil society on tackling cyber threats. The policy is not yet publicly available. "It’s really stupid that guidance on how to secure cyber space in SA is kept under wraps, as many of the problems would be dealt with by this guiding document," says Prof von Solms. The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 2002, which provides for inspectors to enforce cyber security in South Africa, has not been fully implemented and is now being rewritten. "The work of a cyber inspector wasn’t really spelt out in the act and after 12 years we haven’t seen a single inspector. We just haven’t got the skills," says Prof von Solms. Mr Belayneh says the problem is Parliament’s inability to multi-task. He says the Protection of Personal Information Act, signed into law in November last years, was nine years in the making. During this time MPs were focused on dealing with the breach of privacy, and the issue of cybercrime was neglected. What is most concerning is that this neglect has put the country’s security at risk, he says. Wolfpack Information Risk’s report, titled, The South African Cyber Threat Barometer 2012/13, identifies the lack of a national computer security incident res-ponse team as a major concern. Mr Belayneh agrees. Should South Africa’s strategic infrastructure, such as aviation or financial systems, come under cyber attack, the country does not have a national response team to co-ordinate a cyber defence strategy. "We need a national centre that could co-ordinate a plan for the cyber attack that people think could never happen, but can," Mr Belayneh says. Director and joint head of Forensics at ENSAfrica David Loxton says that two years ago, the bulk of his practice was devoted to procurement fraud and business hijackings. However, in the past year it has shifted to cybercrime — "the forum of choice for white-collar criminals". Mr Loxton predicts that in the next three years the fruits of cybercrime will outweigh the fruits of all other white-collar crimes. Globally, governments and the private sector are taking cyber security increasingly seriously. It has moved from 12th place in 2012 to third place on the Lloyd’s 2013 Risk Index Report of concerns to global business. PwC’s Global State of Information Security Survey 2014 has found that while organisations are spending more on security, cyber criminals "have done even more". Detected security incidents had increased 25% over the previous year, while the average financial costs of incidents rose 18%, says PwC. This comes as respondents overall spent 51% more on security last year than the previous year. This, however, makes up only about 4% of their total IT spend. Prof von Solms, recently returned from a sabbatical at Oxford University’s Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity Building, says the UK has established 11 centres for cyber skills development allied to universities. The Indian government is sponsoring the training of 500,000 "cyber warriors", while South Korea produces 5,000 cyber specialists a year, he says. "But in SA there is no national effort." Mr Loxton says South Africa has a serious skills crisis in this area. In his experience, police lack the expertise to deal with cybercrime and there are "very few prosecutors in SA who understand it".
CYBER attacks are a growing risk to business in South Africa, but neither the government nor business are doing enough to combat it, according to cyber security experts. A shortage of skills combined with a lack of urgency in implementing measures to tackle cybercrime have seen South Africa rank low on a number of cyber security assessments, according to Basie von Solms, director of the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Cyber Security. Cybercrime has a negative effect on South Africa’s productivity, national security and its attraction as an investment environment. SA Centre for Information Security CEO Beza Belayneh says South Africa is not doing well in global comparisons in terms of the number of victims and the amount of money lost. "Different surveys find SA is between third-and sixth-worst in cybercrime," he says. The 2013 Norton Report has found that South Africa has the third-highest number of cybercrime victims, after Russia and China. Cyber crime Prof von Solms says cybercrime is largely unregulated by government agencies. "Business is also guilty of not doing enough to tackle cybercrime, but government should be the guide," he says. The Cabinet passed the National Cyber Security Policy Framework in March 2012. It took another 18 months for the Department of Communications to appoint the National Cyber Security Advisory Council in October last year. The framework is supposed to co-ordinate government actions on cyber security and ensure co-operation between the government, the private sector and civil society on tackling cyber threats. The policy is not yet publicly available. "It’s really stupid that guidance on how to secure cyber space in SA is kept under wraps, as many of the problems would be dealt with by this guiding document," says Prof von Solms. The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 2002, which provides for inspectors to enforce cyber security in South Africa, has not been fully implemented and is now being rewritten. "The work of a cyber inspector wasn’t really spelt out in the act and after 12 years we haven’t seen a single inspector. We just haven’t got the skills," says Prof von Solms. Mr Belayneh says the problem is Parliament’s inability to multi-task. He says the Protection of Personal Information Act, signed into law in November last years, was nine years in the making. During this time MPs were focused on dealing with the breach of privacy, and the issue of cybercrime was neglected. What is most concerning is that this neglect has put the country’s security at risk, he says. Wolfpack Information Risk’s report, titled, The South African Cyber Threat Barometer 2012/13, identifies the lack of a national computer security incident res-ponse team as a major concern. Mr Belayneh agrees. Should South Africa’s strategic infrastructure, such as aviation or financial systems, come under cyber attack, the country does not have a national response team to co-ordinate a cyber defence strategy. "We need a national centre that could co-ordinate a plan for the cyber attack that people think could never happen, but can," Mr Belayneh says. Director and joint head of Forensics at ENSAfrica David Loxton says that two years ago, the bulk of his practice was devoted to procurement fraud and business hijackings. However, in the past year it has shifted to cybercrime — "the forum of choice for white-collar criminals". Mr Loxton predicts that in the next three years the fruits of cybercrime will outweigh the fruits of all other white-collar crimes. Globally, governments and the private sector are taking cyber security increasingly seriously. It has moved from 12th place in 2012 to third place on the Lloyd’s 2013 Risk Index Report of concerns to global business. PwC’s Global State of Information Security Survey 2014 has found that while organisations are spending more on security, cyber criminals "have done even more". Detected security incidents had increased 25% over the previous year, while the average financial costs of incidents rose 18%, says PwC. This comes as respondents overall spent 51% more on security last year than the previous year. This, however, makes up only about 4% of their total IT spend. Prof von Solms, recently returned from a sabbatical at Oxford University’s Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity Building, says the UK has established 11 centres for cyber skills development allied to universities. The Indian government is sponsoring the training of 500,000 "cyber warriors", while South Korea produces 5,000 cyber specialists a year, he says. "But in SA there is no national effort." Mr Loxton says South Africa has a serious skills crisis in this area. In his experience, police lack the expertise to deal with cybercrime and there are "very few prosecutors in SA who understand it".
QUESTION 6 IMPACTS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ON LINE POSTER
QUESTION 6 DIGITAL LAW
Potential impacts of digital technology on the society and students
References:
Potential impacts of digital technology on the society and students
Digital technology is used to describe the use of digital resources to effectively find, analyse, create media tools, programming tools and software applications.
(www.nzceta.co.nz/pages/digital_technologies.htm
Negative impacts of using digital technology
According to National School Boards Association, negative effects of technology in today's classroom are that it can take away valuable learning time, it can be overused, and it can also turn educational experiences into games for students. If the teacher and students are not experienced with technology in the classroom, valuable time is often wasted on technical troubles. In addition, the teacher faces the difficulty of having a class full of students who are all at different skill levels.
Positive impacts
- Research.If a school's library is outdated or lacking in a selection of titles, a student might find it difficult to compile the necessary research for an essay or research paper. As long as the school has a computer lab, students are able to use the Internet and digital encyclopedias to obtain the research they need
- Globalization. When schools in different parts of the state, country or world connect, students can "meet" their counterparts through video conferencing without leaving the classroom.
- Educational games.In younger grades, teachers expose children to computers through educational games. Instead of playing board games that focus on education, students can learn the basics of spelling, counting and other early educational lessons through computer games that make learning fun.(http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-positive-effects-technology-education-31222.html)
References
- Mashable: 8 Ways Technology is Improving Education
- Glovico.org: Home
- NASA: Students Talk with Station Astronauts
References:
Canva.com. (2016). Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva. [online] Available at: https://www.canva.com/ [Accessed 24 May 2016].
Point, M. (2015). Impact Of Technology On Our Society – Positive & Negative. [online] My Essay Point. Available at: http://myessaypoint.com/how-technology-effects-our-society [Accessed 24 May 2016].
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question 5
QUESTION 5
DIGITAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY
Digital rights and responsibilities are privileges and freedom extended to all digital technology users and behavioural expectations that come with them.
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