Information systems are central to the digital economy and business. This is a foundation unit that equips students to recognise and explain business information systems with regard to type, function, purpose, and the frameworks within which these systems are used. Topics in the unit include organisational information systems; information systems development and acquisition; data and knowledge management; electronic commerce, internets, extranets; networking; enterprise-wide information systems; the internet and information systems security; privacy, ethics and cyber crime.