Explain the measures to fight unethical use of ICT.

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1. Enacting of laws to regulate the use of cyberspace for instance to deter and punish cyber crimes and other unethical use of ICT
2. Review existing legal systems to ensure they appropriately criminalize abuses of telecommunications and computer systems and promote the investigation of high-tech crimes.
3. Development of institutional and national policies to guide use of ICT. These policies include :
- copyright responsibilities
- imposition of censorship rules
- user rights and responsibilities i.e. connecting user’s rights such as freedom of expression and freedom from persecution and responsibilities
Policies protect organizations or companies and its employees from legal actions. If an employee violates an organization’s policies in handling a client’s data, he/she will be held personally liable and not the organization.
4. Enhancing regional and international cooperation on information security
5. Cooperation between oversight bodies such as Communications Commission of Kenya e.g. in sharing incident reports
6. Holding public education seminars related to incident prevention
7. Publish and distribute various types of technological documents to prevent hackings and viruses
8. Development of technologies to prevent incidents.

Kavungya answered the question on May 17, 2019 at 08:33

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