Exam 14: Global Ecology, ethics, and Social Responsibility

__________ may be considered an integral component of social media strategies because it gives marketers the ability to discover public conversations about their brands and,if necessary,respond to posters directly or to their posts.

The role of IT includes emission reduction and energy savings only in the IT sector itself.

The "Next Generation Data Center" strategy is based on the ability to deliver and support secure IT applications through __________.

Free speech and __________ collide in a world populated by anonymous critics,vengeful people,those with personal agendas,and malcontents.

__________ technology optimizes the capacity and processing power of servers so that fewer servers are needed to provide the necessary processing power.

Which is not one of the trends in the future of IT in organizations?

The Internet is composed of huge numbers of power-consuming,heat-generating __________ running 24x7x365 worldwide and __________ that direct data packets over networks to their destination.

The IT sector,including computing and telecommunications,is responsible for an estimated 10 percent of the global carbon footprint as a result of emissions from the energy used to run servers,computers,and other hardware.

From smart meters to smart grids,the Climate Group is working with members and partners,such as Google and Cisco,to build on the enormous potential and economic opportunities of IT in the low carbon economy.

Carbon footprint is typically measured in __________.

Global warming is typically measured in MtCO2e,which stands for metric tonne carbon dioxide equivalent.

The GSMA's Green Power for Mobile (GPM)program has the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources,such as __________ to power over 100,000 off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012.

Questions about data access and capture,tracking and monitoring,privacy and profiling are examples of IT capabilities that have ethical considerations.And there are no easy or agreed to answers to these dilemmas.

The IT sector can cut its carbon footprint cut in half by _____.

IT's capability to introduce ever-growing amounts of data into our lives can exceed our capacity to keep up with the data,leading to __________.

Despite the challenges and lack of clear answers,ethics is important because it has become clear that relying on __________ alone to safeguard the community is insufficient.

Annual emissions are generally measured in gigatonnes (billions of tonnes)of carbon dioxide equivalent per year (GtCO2e/y).

__________ or virtual work,offers many green benefits,including reducing rush-hour traffic,improving air quality,improving highway safety,and even improving healthcare.

New capabilities that are paving the way for new classes of Web apps include each of the following except:

Routers,switches,and modems operated by end users have been inefficient power guzzling machines mostly because __________.