Analyze the Responsibilities of a Professional

Questions: Professions Australia has recognised the members of the Australia Computer Society (ACS) as professionals. What special responsibilities does that imply for ACS members? In your answer you need to distinguish between someone who is a practitioner but not a professional. 1) introduction 2) Compare ACS with other ethics 3) Examples 4) Conclusion. Answers: Introduction The study is used to analyze the responsibilities of a professional from a practitioner and how it differs in Australian Computer Society. Lately, there has been a misunderstanding that had been created within the information and communication technology (ICT) on considering it a profession. This has not only hampered the societys progress but has been recognized as a profession. However, being a part of a profession means acquiring knowledge for different types of learning whether it is medicine, science, law or ICT. Australian Computer Society Australian Computer Society is the membership of a professional body but does not represents a precondition for a practitioner to practice unlike any other profession namely accounting or law. However, in most of the professions, membership is connected to the ability to practice. Although, absence of professional obligation in ICT has resulted in employing practitioners at haphazard level of knowledge but it has resulted in inadequate understanding of the professional code of ethics in practice. When compared with other disciplines, it is seen that there is a scale of ICT practitioners ranging from university degrees to a minimum level of experience based on industry certifications who have gained some experience through on-the-job training and TAFE. As seen, ACS lacks the criteria that are required to differentiate between a professional and a practitioner. Responsibilities given to Practitioners in ACS On the other hand, the special responsibilities that as guide lined under ACS comprises of basics as honoring property rights including patents and copyrights, maintaining and honoring confidentiality, privacy, and many others. However, the special and specific responsibilities accounts for highest quality with dignity and effectiveness of both products and process of professional work while maintaining professional competence. However, providing appropriate professional review, knowing and respecting the existing laws pertaining to professional review, accessing and computing the communication resources while honoring different contracts and agreements with compliance of code are the specific responsibilities that are the guide lined to the professionals under ACS. Nevertheless, there is need to promote professional code in ACS as it needs to change the value of professionalism under changing attitudes and public perception. According to Jo Coldwell in Professional Ethics and Responsibilities considers ICT to be an immature profession, which needs to be developed and fully recognized system of employees as well as government. ACS different from other Societies It is strategically different from other societies like Institute of Certification of computing professionals (ICCP), Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, Computer Society of South Africa or Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) because it emphasizes integrity, impartiality, accountability, responsibility, non-discrimination, relationships to external stakeholders and relation to society. However, there are certain duties that need to be issued in public interest that not only comprises of high-level statements but also provides its relevance to employer, client or the defined institution, which is not the case with ACS. However, it is shown that many practitioners are not competent enough to recognize value of being a member of professional society. Moreover, they only seek to carry out their day-to-day operational activities as there is need to recognize ACS of its recognized profession by proper media coverage that promote ICT as a profession. Conclusion To conclude, it can be said that ACS is a practitioner level professionalism that does not differentiated between the degree and minimum experience as a practitioner possess. However, professional is learned only when high-level statement adds with professional code of conducts and not something, that adds to day-to-day operations. Nevertheless, the code of ethics differentiates between the societies based on the knowledge that is disseminated and set into professional practice.