Management utilization of computers in American local governments
Communications of the ACM
Automated welfare client-tracking and service integration: the political economy of computing
Communications of the ACM
Value conflicts and social choice in electronic funds transfer system developments
Communications of the ACM
Guidelines for humanizing computerized information systems: a report from Stanley House
Communications of the ACM
A problem-list of issues concerning computers and public policy
Communications of the ACM
Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
Computers and the Mechanication of Judgement
Computers and the Mechanication of Judgement
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
The social dynamics of instrumental computer use
ACM SIGSOC Bulletin
Policy, values, and EFT research: anatomy of a research agenda
Communications of the ACM
Value conflicts and social choice in electronic funds transfer system developments
Communications of the ACM
Value conflicts and social choice in electronic funds transfer system developments
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Policy, values and EFT research: anatomy of a research agenda
AFIPS '80 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference
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This paper briefly examines six public policy strategies for including the "social accountability of computing". "Social accountability" denotes ways of organizing computer specialists, organized groups that develop, manufacture, sell or use computer-based systems, and their markets, so that the broader public is well served. The six models which are examined here include:1. Market arrangements2. Administrative authority3. Professional control4. Regulatory commissions to administer legislative acts5. Judical enforcement and review of legislative acts6. Citizen actionEach is applicable to a different context in which computer-based services are provided. And collectively, they span the set of policy instruments available in liberal democracies. While these models have been extensively developed and examined in a variety of settings, their appropriateness for computing is usually tacitly assumed, rather than grounded in careful analyses. Upon close inspection, each model is found to have severe problems in either its practical effectiveness or its appropriateness for computing.