Donna Lindskog

Donna Lindskog is an Information Systems Professional (retired) and has her Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Regina. She has worked in the IT industry since 1978. Most of those years were at SaskTel where she progressed from Programmer, to Business Analyst, to Manager. At one point she had over 48 IT positions reporting to her and she has experience outside of IT managing Engineers. As a Relationship Manager, Donna worked with executive to define the IT Principles so departmental roles were defined. As the Resource Manager in the Corporate Program/Project Management Office, she introduced processes to get resources for corporate priorities. In 2003 she was given the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in Technology.

Articles by Donna Lindskog

How much is too much IT security?

IT security pros have an ethical responsibility to ask if the personal information demanded of users for identity access is really needed

Songvids and copyright

Organizations have to caution staff that the use of digital content created on their own devices may violate copyright laws

How to handle an ethical dilemma

When a problem arises often the key to a solution is to continue to work the “in between” options so extreme actions aren't necessary. Here's how you do it

How ethics applies to change management

You may have a considerable part of your life and training invested in software being considered for replacement. Can you give an unbiased opinion?

Questions not included in the CIPS Ethics exam

In helping create the ethics questions for the test I learned a lot. Ready why

Resisting the move of governments to regulate the Internet

An international information processing group warns the Web could be weakened unless people act

Why IT needs to resist the temptation to add technology

Think about people outside our frame of reference that will be impacted by our IT project. Doing this could be the difference between success and failure

Why IT staff need to be transparent with others

Transparent does not always mean ethical. We can be told about things that are not fair or right and then be given no choices. But transparency is definitely a good step toward enabling ethics.

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