Mid-Term Exam Review, IT 304 Fall Semester 2020
1. When did the steel, electricity and heavy engineering industries stage of
industrial expansion came into picture?
2. Three stages of production: please choose the correct answer:
3. Labor productivity (output/labor input) is the best measure of prosperity.
False
Best measure of prosperity is GDP/Capita
4. Real growth should be measured as the rate of growth of GDP/Capita.
True
5. Improved access to communication technology can reduce poverty:
True
6. What do you think should be the role of the government in ensuring equitable access
to Internet. Do you think governments should subsidize access to the Internet for poor
people? Why/Why not.
No wrong answer. Should be substantiated.
7. Why is there a digital divide in a highly connected countries like United States? What
causes this phenomenon?
Rural/urban divide, economic divide, age divide, etc
1770
1830
1870
1930
Design process is capital intensive
Production process is capital intensive
Assembly process is skills intensive
None of the above
8. Please choose and briefly describe one of the approaches to ethics:
Virtue -reflects moral virtue is self and community
Utilitarian – greatest excess of benefits over harm
Fairness – treats everyone the same and shows no favoritism or preference
Common Good approach – advances the common good.
9. Please give one example of unethical behavior on internet
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
10. Please list at least one opportunity and one challenge presented by Internet
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
11. Connectivity has no correlation with GDP per capita:
False.
12. Please provide definition for economics in your own words.
Should include notion of production and trade in goods, services and resources.
13. How does high GDP correlate with high Internet connectivity?
High connectivity leads to higher GDP.
14. Please briefly describe mandate of International Telecommunications Union:
Manage spectrum, standards around telecoms and internet
15. What factors contribute to economic growth?
Productivity
16. Please describe digital risks. How can they be controlled?
Control
Inequality
Concentration
They can be controlled with analog foundations of good business climate, governance and
human capital.
17. Which term refers to the period of time when the population of the working age is
high relative to young people and the elderly.
18. Which organizations have a role in Internet governance?
19. Which age is the age where we no longer need face to face interactions and can learn
everything at our own pace online?
20. What are the types of Internet Governance ?
21. Please chose correct answer for categories of digital divide:
Demographic window
economic dependency ratio
labour force participation rates
None of the above
World Bank
Internet Governance Forum
UNDP
Internet Society (ISOC)
all of the above
Industrial age
Chronological age
Information age
Biological age
(a) National approach
(b) Parliamentarian approach
(c) Multi stakeholder approach
(d) A and C
22. Digital divide is caused by Access, Affordability and ____________________________
23. Which of the following is a factor affecting labor productivity?
24. Economic growth takes place in stages driven by ________ paradigms
25. Africa has the greatest digital divide of all regions in the world
True
26. Which one is not one of the approaches to ethics
Women and elderly
Low income families and people with disabilities
Rural population
All of the above
connectivity
security
advancement
all of the above
worker skills and work habits
business practices
technological advancements
all of the above
Imperative
Techno-economic
Object-Oriented
all of the above
27. Please put the following stages of expansion into chronological order:
28. Please name additional two analog foundations
a. Good Governance
b. Human Capital
c. Sound business climate
d. __________________
e. __________________
Your choice, no wrong answer.
29. List three Digital Dividends:
Inclusion growth
Efficiency = jobs
Innovation services
30. What are ethical implications of new technologies on privacy?
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
Virtue approach to ethics
Utilitarian approach to ethics
Religious approach to ethics
Common good approach to ethics
Fairness approach to ethics
None of the above
Correct Order
5.
Cotton textiles and new mechanical technologies
3.
Age of steam power and railway
2.
Petroleum, IC engines and mass production
1.
Information technology and communications
4.
Biotechnology, nanotechnology, social media, new materials, artificial
intelligence, etc.
31. Please list countries that were able to leapfrog through digital divide?
Countries that had rapid not gradual development of digital technologies such as Korea,
Singapore, India, Rwanda, Malaysia, Estonia.
EU and US had a gradual development of digital technologies spanning across decades.
32. Which country/countries will be the fastest growing in the future? Why?
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
33. What would be your recommendations for closing digital divide in a low-income
country?
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
34. Why digital dividends are not spreading faster across the globe?
Digital divide constraint: access, affordability, security
35. What do you think of globalization? Should there be restrictions or caps on trade and
other aspects of globalization?
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
36. What area of technology you believe has the greatest ethical risks?
No wrong answer. Need to substantiate.
37. There is no correlation between productivity and GDP per capital?
False.
