Reliability.

The ability of an apparatus, machine, or system to consistently perform its intended or required function or mission, on demand and without degradation or failure. Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.

Integrity
State of a system where it is performing its intended functions without being degraded or impaired by changes or disruptions in its internal or external environments. Stored or transmitted data that is free from any unauthorized change. See also data integrity.

Security
The extent to which a computer system is protected from data corruption, destruction, interception, loss, or unauthorized access A document indicating ownership or creditor ship; a stock certificate or bond.

Privacy
Restriction on attempts to know an individual's state of mind. The state of being private; retirement or seclusion.

Anonymity
The quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged. Of unknown authorship or origin.

Intellectual Property
A product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copyrighted property such as literary or artistic works, and ideational property, such as patents, appellations of origin, business methods, and industrial processes. It is often used as a legal term to safeguard the rights of creators and inventors.

Authenticity
Characteristic of a document or record created by the entity represented as its creator, and preserved in its original form without any falsification or tampering. Law. Property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks.

Digital Division
Is the cultural division caused by limited access to computers and internet in todays society.

Is an economic inequality between groups, broadly construed, in terms of access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies

Equality of access
The state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability. Is the concept that all persons should have equal rights of access to anything they desire.

Surveillance
Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. The monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information

Globalization
The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers.

Cultural Diversity
The existence of a multiplicity of sub-cultures and different value in a plural or multicultural society or other setting. The inclusion of diverse people in a group or organization.

Policies
Are regulations, laws or contractual obligations that promote the appropriate use of technology. Are enforcable measures intended to promote appropriate use. They can be developed by governments, businesses and private groups or individuals.

Standards
Are social or technical rules that systems must have in place to run efficiently. An object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind.

Protocols
Are technical rules and conventions that enable compatibility and therefore Facilitate communication or interoperability between different IT systems and their components. Set of agreed upon, and openly published and distributed, standards that enables different firms to manufacture compatible devices to the same specifications. All devices made under the same protocol work with one another without any adjustment or modification.

People and Machines

The use of IT systems brings significant advantages, for instance in ease of use, being available 24/7, or through its use rather than exposing humans to a potentially hazardous environment There are social impacts such as internet addiction, where people feel that they can never get away from IT and are trapped on a digital treadmill.

Digital Citizenship
Is an appropriate behavior that represents the responsible, ethical and legal approach that individuals take in any situation with respect to the use of IT. It permeates, in one way or another, all of the preceding social and ethical considerations.