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<font size=3>Dear colleagues<br><br>
ICT has an immediate and broad impact on the lives of most individuals.
<br>
Ethical scrutiny is not well established. Existing ethics review
mechanisms<br>
are not suited for many of the ethical issues that ICT is likely to cause
in<br>
the future. Europe has the unique opportunity to show international<br>
leadership by pointing the way to how human rights, ethical values and
moral<br>
norms can be explicitly considered in technology development. The
ETICA<br>
project (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, GA 230318,<br>
<a href="http://www.etica-project.eu/" eudora="autourl">
www.etica-project.eu</a>) provides the basis for a new enlightened
approach to<br>
the development, governance and use of emerging ICT.<br><br>
If you are interested in this area, I would therefore like to invite you
to<br>
the ETICA project’s final event which will be held on the 31st of March
2011<br>
at the European Parliament, Brussels. This event will be co-hosted by
the<br>
European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA).
The<br>
event will be chaired by Dr. Malcolm Harbour, MEP and Vice-President
of<br>
STOA. The event will present ETICA's findings and recommendations which
will<br>
include: <br><br>
• Identified Emerging Technologies<br>
• Identified Ethical Issues of the Emerging Technologies<br>
• Evaluation and Ranking review of the identified technologies<br>
• Governance structures of emerging technologies and <br>
• Recommendations for policy makers on ways that could be considered
when<br>
dealing with ethical issues of emerging technologies<br><br>
In addition, the event will have panel discussions on the following
topics:<br><br>
Panel 1: Ethics and Politics<br>
How should we shape the relationship of ethics, ICT and society?<br><br>
Panel 2: Ethics and Innovation <br>
How can ethics be integrated into technical innovation?<br><br>
Panel 3: Ethics and Research<br>
What can be the role for ethics in FP8?<br><br>
The event is aimed at a broad audience including <br>
• Policy-makers<br>
• ICT Industry developers<br>
• Researchers<br>
• Ethics Reviewers<br>
There will be a lively discussion and debate between the different<br>
stakeholders on issues of ethics and future and emerging
technologies.<br><br>
If you would like to register for this unprecedented event please click
on<br>
the link below and register your interest by close of business
Wednesday<br>
16th March 2011. Attendance is free but registration is
required.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.etica-project.eu/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.etica-project.eu/<br><br>
</a>We look forward to hearing from you, however in the meantime if you
have any<br>
further questions and or queries then please do not hesitate to contact
us.<br><br>
Kind regards,<br><br>
Philippe goujon etica wp4 responsible<br><br>
<br>
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Philippe Goujon<br>
Professeur<br>
Faculté d'Informatique - Computer Science Department<br>
FUNDP<br>
Rue Grandgagnage, 21- B 5000 NAMUR<br>
32+81 72 5258 - FAX 32+ 81 72 49 67<br>
mail.pgo@info.fundp.ac.be<br>
<br>
<b>présentation page perso:<br>
</b>
<a href="http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html<br>
</a><a href="http://fundp.academia.edu/Philippegoujon" eudora="autourl">
http://fundp.academia.edu/Philippegoujon<br><br>
</a><b>Projets en cours: <br>
</b>Projet IG3T :<br>
http
://<a href="http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/IG3T" eudora="autourl">
www.info.fundp.ac.be/IG3T<br><br>
</a>projets européens:<br>
projet ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications) :
<a href="http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk:8080/" eudora="autourl">
http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk:8080/<br><br>
</a>projet EGAIS (The Etical GovernAnce of emerging technologieS:
http://www.egais-project.eu/<br>
- New Governance perspective for integrating ethics into Technical
development Projects and Applications)<br><br>
<br>
<b>It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in
order that your work may increase man's blessings. Concern for man
himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical
endeavors.<br>
Albert Einstein<br><br>
"La vérité ne triomphe jamais mais ses ennemis finissent toujours
par disparaître"<br>
- Max Planck<br>
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