Data and System Integration
ICT705
Data and System
Integration
Task 1
Submit
your assignment to Blackboard Task 1. Please follow the submission instructions
in Blackboard.
The
assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 20% of the
total assessment for the course. ALL
assignments will be checked for plagiarism by Safe Assign system provided by
Blackboard automatically.
Refer
to your Course Outline or the Course Web Site for a copy of the “Student
Misconduct, Plagiarism and Collusion” guidelines. Academic Integrity Information.
The
assignment will be assessed according to the marking sheet. Late submission
will be penalised according to the policy in the course outline. Please note
Saturday and Sunday are included in the count of days late.
Requests
for an extension to an assignment MUST
be made to the course coordinator prior to the date of submission and requests
made on the day of submission or after the submission date will only be
considered in exceptional circumstances. Assignment submission extensions will
only be made using the official Faculty of Arts, Business and Law Guidelines.
Background: EVoting
In
2013, there was a loss of ballot papers during the federal election. As a
result, there has been significant discussions and investigations about the
incident. Several enquiries have been made about the improvements to the
electoral system through the use of technology that would reduce the chance of
this sort of incident happening again.
A
report on the inquiry into the conduct of the 2013 federal election noted that “There
can be little disagreement with the idea that the electoral system needs to
harness the technology available to it, and there are many aspects of the
electoral system where these reforms can be introduced, including building
capability in electronic support for voting”(Joint Standing Committee on
Electoral Matters, 2014, p. 1).
Prior
to and subsequent of this incident, a wealth of scholarly articles has been
written in respect to electronic voting, including the benefits for government
decision making, benefits to the society and the challenges of implementing an
eVoting system.
It
is recommended that you undertake your own review of the current literature to
gain insights into designing an EIA for electronic voting.
You
are to prepare a preliminary report for the Australian Federal Government
describing the benefits of an Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture (EIA RA) for developing a national eVoting system. Attention
should be made to an information centric design and how to best achieve this.
The
intended audience for this report are government officials who may have
knowledge of the electoral system but limited computing knowledge.
Your report
should follow the following template:
Executive Summary
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
Table of Tables (if
needed)
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
Discuss
the benefits an EIA RA approach can provide to guide development of an eVoting
system. This discussion should expand on at least three of the identified
benefits and should include at least one diagram providing an overview of the
proposed system.
3.0 Information Management and Integration
The
disparate nature of entities and systems within government, the volume of
structured and unstructured data, and the sensitivity of that data pose
challenges for data management and integration.
You are to
describe several of these challenges and propose strategies to overcome them.
4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Recommendations
Bibliography
Report Format
Your
report should be no less than 2,000 words and it would be best to be no longer
than 3,000 words.
The report must
be formatted using the following guidelines:
•
Paragraph
text 12-point Calibri single line spacing
•
Headings
Arial in an appropriate type size
•
Margins
2.5cm on all sides
• Title
Page is not to contain headers, footers, or page numbering
•
Header
is to display the Report Title (excluding the title page)
• Footer
to display your name and the page number (excluding the title page)
• Title Page – Must not contain headers or
footers. Include your name as the report’s author.
•
Page
numbering
o
Executive
summary to the last page of Table of Figures / Table of Tables to use
roman
numerals (i, ii, iii, iv)
o Introduction
and onwards to use conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) starting at page 1 from
the introduction
•
The report is to be created as a single
Microsoft Word document (version 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, or Office 365). No
other format is acceptable and doing so will result in the deduction of marks.
•
The report must use the built-in
features of Microsoft Word to create page numbers, section numbers, citations,
cross referencing of sections, figures and tables, table of contents, table of
figures, table of tables, and bibliography.
Please follow
the conventions detailed in:
Summers, J.
& Smith, B., 2014, Communication
Skills Handbook, 4th Ed, Wiley, Australia.
Referencing
The
report is to include (at least 5) appropriate references and these references
should follow the Harvard method of referencing. Note that ALL references
should be from journal articles, conference papers, technical papers or a
recognized expert in the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia as a reference. The use of
unqualified references will result in the deduction of marks.
Assignment Return and Release of Grades
Assignment
grades will be available on the blackboard in two weeks after the submission.
An electronic assignment marking sheet will be available at this time. Where an
assignment is undergoing investigation for alleged plagiarism or collusion the
grade for the assignment and the assignment will be withheld until the
investigation has concluded.
Assignment Advice
1. The task of developing an EIA for
eVoting would in practice would take a team of IT professionals hundreds of
hours to complete. It is acknowledged that your time is constrained to several
weeks and approx. 20 hrs work on this assignment, and as such this assignment
is not so much about completing it but seeing how far you get.
2. Whole text books have been dedicated
to the topic of EIA RA, thus in your discussion of EIA RA you will need firstly
to be succinct, and secondly to be selective in describing aspects of EIA RA
significant to an eVoting system.
3.
It is not expected that you become
an expert in eVoting, but it is expected that you demonstrate your research
into the field as it pertains to EIA
4. As this is a master’s level course,
you will be graded on your ability to put forward an argument supported by
scholarly articles. Simply regurgitating the text book is not sufficient.
5. There is no correct answer and it is
expected that students’ answers will vary greatly, thus there is little chance
of accidental plagiarism.
6. Ensure that you clearly understand
the requirements for the assignment – what must be done and what are the
deliverables.
7. If you do not understand any of the assignment
requirements – Please ASK your
tutor.
8.
Each time you work on any aspect of
the assignment reread the assignment requirements to ensure that what is
required is clearly understood.
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