Question 3: Digital Communication and Fluencies {POE}

The social economy: Unlocking value through social technologies, in this post outline the benefits and risks of social technologies for individuals, corporates and communities, however, the focus is on South Africa.

The social economy

Social Technologies refers to applying the used technologies for specific purposes especially social ones: to ease social procedures via social software and social hardware which might include the use of computers and information technology for governmental procedures.

Benefits of social technologies for individuals, corporate and communities
For individuals to benefit they will be able to send messages and by doing this they will be quickly connected, however, individuals will not lose out on any communication.
The space that they share allows cooperate to co-create content, coordinate joint projects and tasks. People work best and in full potential when they are in groups, sharing ideologies and allowing people build on each other’s ideas.

ë  Individuals and communities can connect with others and communicate effectively.

ë  Individuals and communities can share information as well as to access internet any-time and anywhere.

ë  Corporates can connect with their employees and communicate effectively, therefore they can also connect with their customers and share information.

ë  Corporates can increase their level of advertising and popularity of the business and sell their products and services online as an improvement of productivity by attracting new customers.

The benefit for communities is that communication has improved as modern technology has broadened the channels used in communication which can be video chat or electronic mail so this means the South African economy in communities can be able to communicate with friends and family located far away and can even Skype which is easy and people will communicate better.

Risk of social technologies for individuals, corporate and communities

The risk of social technologies for individuals corporate and communities is that South Africa will be faced with the increase in unemployment and also the world description weapons and will also face competency, risk of social technologies to communicate using Facebook people should be careful as to what they post online on their profiles. The risk of this is that when people get your personal information they might use it to stalk the person which may cause harm to the person.

ë  Giving out personal details could be a huge risk.

ë  People could use your personal information to commit crime and fraud.

ë  Connecting and communicating with people you don't know could be risky and dangerous.

ë  Management tools must be out in place to reduce the risks.

ë  Security tools must be put in place passwords and encryption of important data and information to avoid risks.