**2. Results**

It is worth mentioning that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct was created with the intention of guiding and inspiring the conduct of computer professionals, as well as any person related

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**Figure 1.**

*Record selection flowchart. PRISMA model.*

to technology, by establishing ethical principles to guide professional conduct in the field of computing and information technology, whose performance generates an impact on society [2, 13].

By virtue of this, **Figure 1** shows the number of selected primary studies that evidence the approach towards codes of conduct and ethics in the professional field that manifests the opinions or criteria of citizens, such as weaknesses and the absence of values; mismanagement of information; a lack of guarantees in legal security, which are prone to being devalued; and clear behaviours of manipulation of fraudulent activities [7].

#### **2.1 Data collection and analysis**

The way in which the information was evaluated and interpreted was through the systematic review of the literature, because it facilitates and summarises the content of the selected articles according to inclusion and exclusion criteria and that complies with describing a transparent and comprehensible process of collection and selection of multiple articles as well as sources of information, considering qualitative aspects of primary studies with the intention of synthesising the data in terms of ethics in this era of digital transformation [13, 14].

From the results obtained when carrying out an SLR, the problems of ethics in the economy, health, and professional fields are evident, whose characterisation is represented in **Tables 1** and **2**, which show how each author emphasises certain characteristics or infallible qualities that are related to ethics in the professional field, correlating the different alternatives and behaviours to determine the codes with which professionals currently develop.

It is worth mentioning that there are few studies related to this issue of ethics applied to the era of digital transformation, but it is necessary to distinguish between the intention to deceive and the error as a result that can affect the degree of trust


#### **Table 1.**

*Behavioural codes.*


#### **Table 2.**

*Characterisation of expected behaviours of an ethical nature.*

between collaborators or members of work teams. Likewise, most authors propose basic ethical principles that integrate the principles of respect and helping others, incorporating ethics [15].

On the other hand, the Organisation of American States has a Programme for the Education of Values, which calls for the socialisation of the content of attitudes and norms in order to develop new constructs, with a focus on human rights that promote harmony in all participants [13], situations that are little disseminated in some areas.

Its aim is to promote education in democratic values and civic ethics in the Americas, and it has a series of specific objectives to achieve this goal.
