Select Impacts#

Tools used:

  • mind maps

For Unit 1#

When selecting impacts the developer needs to consider what they hope to achieve with the solution.

The types of impacts you can consider:

  • Personal Impacts

    • Health and wellbeing

    • Access to resources, services and opportunities

    • Quality of life

    • Personal safety

    • Resilience

    • Culture and heritage

  • Social Impacts

    • Health and wellbeing

    • Access to resources, services and opportunities

    • Quality of life

    • Safety

    • Security

    • Resilience

    • Culture and heritage

    • Innovation and human capital

    • Social cohesion

  • Economic Impacts

    • National economic performance

    • Trade and competitiveness

    • Productivity and efficiency

    • Management of risk and uncertainty

    • Policies and programs

    • New services, products, experiences and market niches

    • Animal health and prosperity

    • Securing and protecting existing markets

  • Environmental Impacts

    • Air quality

    • Ecosystem health and integrity (natural capital)

    • Climate

    • Natural hazards mitigation

    • Energy generation and consumption

    • Land quality

    • Aquatic environments

    • Built environments

This decision is recorded in the mind map.

impacts mind map

For Units 2 to 4#

In addition to the impacts from Unit 1, you can also consider the impacts that result from the use of data.

Consider impact resulting from:

  • Transparency, accountability and empowerment of users

  • Business opportunities including for data intermediaries and start-ups

  • Co-operation and competition across sectors and countries

  • Crowdsourcing new insights and user-driven innovation

  • Increased efficiency across society through data linkage and integration

These impacts will still be recorded within the categories of personal, social, economic and environmental on the mind map.

Unit 1 subject matter covered:

  • understand and describe personal, social and economic impacts [QCAA, 2017]

Unit 2 subject matter covered:

  • explore and communicate the personal, social and economic impacts of storing data in a database for individuals, organisations and governments

  • recognise the elements needed for a data-driven solution, including the personal, social and economic impacts of storing data in databases for individuals, organisations and governments [QCAA, 2017]

Unit 3 subject matter covered:

  • determine possible personal, social and economic impacts [QCAA, 2017]

Unit 4 subject matter covered:

  • evaluate security impacts of data and its use, dissemination, storage, accuracy and ownership on personal, social and economic needs [QCAA, 2017]