TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying the ethics of emerging information and communication technologies
T2 - An essay on issues, concepts and method
AU - Stahl, Bernd Carsten
AU - Heersmink, Richard
AU - Goujon, Philippe
AU - Flick, Catherine
AU - Van Den Hoven, Jeroen
AU - Wakunuma, Kutoma J.
AU - Ikonen, Veikko
AU - Rader, Michael
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, and people's ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons, policy makers are interested in finding out what these issues are and how they can be addressed. The best way of creating ICT policy that is sensitive to ethical issues pertain to being proactive in addressing such issues at an early stage of the technology life cycle. The present paper uses this position as a starting point and discusses how knowledge of ethical aspects of emerging ICTs can be gained. It develops a methodology that goes beyond established futures methodologies to cater for the difficult nature of ethical issues. The authors outline how the description of emerging ICTs can be used for an ethical analysis.
AB - Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, and people's ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons, policy makers are interested in finding out what these issues are and how they can be addressed. The best way of creating ICT policy that is sensitive to ethical issues pertain to being proactive in addressing such issues at an early stage of the technology life cycle. The present paper uses this position as a starting point and discusses how knowledge of ethical aspects of emerging ICTs can be gained. It develops a methodology that goes beyond established futures methodologies to cater for the difficult nature of ethical issues. The authors outline how the description of emerging ICTs can be used for an ethical analysis.
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U2 - 10.4018/jte.2010100102
DO - 10.4018/jte.2010100102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960983482
SN - 1947-3451
VL - 1
SP - 20
EP - 38
JO - International Journal of Technoethics
JF - International Journal of Technoethics
IS - 4
ER -