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Information ethics and law 803


 
Module code INL 803
Qualification Postgraduate
Faculty Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
Module content

This module focuses on the relationship between poverty and information and the effect that it has on the lives of people in South Africa; the Promotion of Access to Information Act; and the philosophical background of Intellectual Property Rights (Hegel, Marx and Lock) and how this Western concept has influenced the digital divide between the information rich and information poor.
Module credits 20.00
Prerequisites No prerequisites.
Contact time 1 lecture per week
Language of tuition Module is presented in English
Department Information Science
Period of presentation Year
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