Intellectual Rights Concerns for Business
A volunteer organization ‘AllTechComm’ is largely a group of
computer professionals who wanted to give back to the community in a variety of
ways, both non-technical and technical. A portion of your organization is
support, HR, or training-oriented, and has only basic technical knowledge. You
are the newly appointed VP of Technology. You have been part of the
organization for 2 years, 1 year as an employee. Your role is to oversee the
technical department of the organization, plan for future growth in the
department, and provide guidance to the technology-based projects executed by
the volunteers. AllTechComm is 3 years old with an average of 100 active
volunteers at any given time. There are 10 employees, 6 full-time (including
you) and 4 part-time.
The organization has 3 regular projects and one pet project
they plan and execute each year. The three regular projects are: 1) Literacy
Aid for Underprivileged Children 2) Volunteering technical expertise to other
charitable organizations who can not afford expensive technical support 3)
Working with homeless/poor individuals to create a resume and to search job
boards. The pet project for the coming year is nicknamed TechnoSeniors, where
the volunteers teach seniors in minimum care nursing homes how to connect to
the internet, send email to their family and play computer games such as
solitaire. The goal of the project is to help elderly people stay connected to
friends and family, and keep their minds sharp slowing the mental decline
sometimes associated with old age.
Your mandate as VP of Technology is to keep the regular
projects strong and growing, plan for TechnoSeniors, and overhaul the
AllTechComm intranet. Your must make the intranet one in which volunteers can
sign up and manage their schedules, profiles, keep in better contact with their
Project Leaders, and actually accomplish work together.
In your departmental meeting this week, you are leading
discussion on the following:
Consider this: Intellectual property rights have been a
concern for academic and research organizations for a while; why has it become
an issue for more and more organizations? Does AllTechComm have any
intellectual property to protect? What do you suggest to keep our work safe?
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