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On the 28th of July this year, our dear Madam President gave her SONA(State of the Nation Address). On this SONA, she stressed the growth of our economy in the past 2007. But then again, she also stressed the crisis that the country is facing in the present. The crisis that our country is facing today is inevitable. Other countries are also experiencing what we are having right now. But on her SONA, she stated some ways of at least alleviating the standard of living of the Filipinos, especially those who are hit hard by these crises.

On the field of ICT, these are a few things that I found that is somewhat connected to ICT. first is the lessening of the text messaging charge from 1 peso to 50 cents. Though it is an improvement, lets face it, most cellphone users are using the promotional given by telecommunication companies. Though some prepaid users can benefit from it, the only people that can really benefit from this are those using postpaid accounts, in which only those privileged enough to have it. And based on what I have heard on the news, this is just temporary. What we really need is for long term relief.

She also mentioned about the 350 million training partnership with the private sectors which will give one million workers that will hopefully generate $13 billion dollars by 2010. Imagine that! Now that is one good news. Not only will it help in alleviating the problem of underemployment, it is also giving us the encouragement to strive hard so that someday we will be part of that workforce needed.

Though there are people who tried and still trying to bring her down, she is immovable. And I admire her for that. People nowadays are blaming her for the problems that they are having right now. She doesn't have control to everything, you know. We must do what we can for this country, even if it is just a small portion. Change must begin in us. ^^,

Some of the Information System's Best Practices:

Educating the End Users
- The success of the implementation of an application depends on the knowledge of the users on the said application. Training on a continuing basis greatly helps in improving the capabilities of users in using the system.

Data Access Security
- grants or restricts the user of accessing a specific application depending on his/her role or job.

Network Security
- The administration of an application security is utilized to grant/ restrict data access within the application.

Data Integrity
- Must ensure accurate and complete data.

Program Change Control
- This practice see to it that only appropriate and important changes are made in the program logic. This change should produce the expected results by the users that want the change.

System Interfaces
- Based on my source, the exchange of data from one business application to another is considered an interface. Therefore, the reliability, accuracy and the completeness of the data being transferred or received should be assured by a quality control process.


Backups, Recovery plans and Business Continuity
- There will always be unforeseen circumstances that will ultimately affect an application or a system. Creating Recovery Plans will help cope with the unavailability of the system during the outage. This plan should be written and approved by the management and also checked on a regular basis. The plan must show how the system will recover and how the operations will continue during the recovery.

Reference:
http://www.legaudit.state.ar.us/Resources/Publications/ADLA-IS_Best_Practices.pdf

I had a hard time looking for the appropriate reference for this topic. But fortunately, I found a reliable source that I hope will answer the question: What are the barriers in IS/IT?

These are the said barriers that I had found when I was searching:

- Lack of Commitment and Incentives
- Educational barrier
- Limits on organizational intelligence
- Organizational design
- Unclear or conflicting purposes
- Lack of Procedure

Basically, the solution for all this barriers is just adequate literacy and proper communication. ^^,



Reference:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/journal/v17/n1/fig_tab/3000727t5.html#figure-title

Risks in changing the IS of an organization reflects the events that can affect the flow of business.
Based on what I have read and understood, these are some of the risks associated with changing the IS/IT:

Inconsistency of data
- Variations in the way data is collected may affect the consistency of the information being gathered and thus, affects the operations in an organization.

Incomplete system
- unfinished or incomplete systems can greatly hinder the progress of an organization.

Irrelevance of information
- Information that is inappropriate, unnecessary, or too detailed for effective decision making has
no value.

In addition to that, poorly programmed or systems lacking in proper security can be easily manipulated and it may disrupt the flow of work that will lead to incorrect decisions or impaired planning.

Having new or changing the information system can be a tasking job. But then, if used properly and accordingly, the organization can benefit from it. The success of implementing new or changing the system depends on the accuracy of the technical deployment and also the people's acceptance of the change. As always, proper education and communication are the keys in helping the implementation of the change in the information system in an organization.


Reference:
http://www.occ.treas.gov/handbook/mis.pdf

based on what i have read, Information Systems fails in ways more than one. There are a lot of factors affecting the failure of a System. There are a lot of factors involving the failure of a system. But based on what I have read, there are five major concepts of failure. These are:

- Incomplete or the requirements are not given
- Failure to meet the deadline
- Cost
- Unused Systems
- Customers are not satisfied of what they get


On those said failures, the cost and the unsatisfied customers can be connected. Some IS can be relatively cheap compared to most but there may be a flaw or two that can be seen. Due to this flaws, the users may find it annoying and will resort to dumping the said IS and find a new IS, which means that the discarded system will be lost. If the requirements is not met in a said IS, then that will be considered a failure for its use is limited and there is certainly flaws that will arise.

reference:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4153/is_n4_v53/ai_18863038

Hello everyone!

Im Jalil O. Paniamba-an, 4th year BSIT student.
My expectation for this subject is that it will be giving us a pretty hard time but at the same time it
will give us a better understanding of what this subject is all about and hopefully be able to apply all the knowledge gained in the outside world.