The British Computer Society has added
two new
sections to its website in an effort to provide more
information and support on a wider range of IT-related
subjects.
With small and medium-sized enterprises making up the highest
percentage of companies in the UK, the BCS has launched a portal
designed to support these organisations. The portal contains
articles on all manner of subjects that are suitable for SMEs.
The BCS has also launched a section covering professional ethics
on its website. This covers subjects such as climate change,
personal behaviour, identity and liberty, professionalism,
charitable work, and user accessibility. There is a lot to discuss
in ethics and IT, topics that the BCS has not covered in depth
previously.
The website now features the online edition of its membership
magazine, IT Now. The BCS also publishes a security magazine,
Information Security Now, which incorporates the
Information Security Specialist Group. Health Informatics Now
is the newsletter of the BCS health informatics community.
The latest issue of Health Informatics Now focuses on health
informatics in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and how the
approach to IT there differs to that in England. The summer issue
of Information Security Now focuses on information privacy and
discusses subjects such as ethical hacking and code vulnerability
detection.
The BCS website is also being used to showcase the society's
podcast, oddIT. Put together by the publishing and web team, the
weekly podcast covers the interesting, amusing and weird in IT.
Highlights from the podcast are also being covered in the BCS
blog, which covers topics such as process modelling, digital rights
management, games, health informatics and data migration.