[governance] IT for a Better Future - How to integrate Ethics, Politics and Innovation - Event in the European Parliament, 31 March 2011

Mon Mar 7 04:35:10 EST 2011

Dear colleagues

ICT has an immediate and broad impact on the lives of most individuals.
Ethical scrutiny is not well established. Existing ethics review mechanisms
are not suited for many of the ethical issues that ICT is likely to cause in
the future. Europe has the unique opportunity to show international
leadership by pointing the way to how human rights, ethical values and moral
norms can be explicitly considered in technology development. The ETICA
project (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, GA 230318,
www.etica-project.eu) provides the basis for a new enlightened approach to
the development, governance and use of emerging ICT.

If you are interested in this area, I would therefore like to invite you to
the ETICA projects final event which will be held on the 31st of March 2011
at the European Parliament, Brussels. This event will be co-hosted by the
European Parliaments Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA). The
event will be chaired by Dr. Malcolm Harbour, MEP and Vice-President of
STOA. The event will present ETICA's findings and recommendations which will
include:

 Identified Emerging Technologies
 Identified Ethical Issues of the Emerging Technologies
 Evaluation and Ranking review of the identified technologies
 Governance structures of emerging technologies and
 Recommendations for policy makers on ways that could be considered when
dealing with ethical issues of emerging technologies

In addition, the event will have panel discussions on the following topics:

Panel 1: Ethics and Politics
How should we shape the relationship of ethics, ICT and society?

Panel 2: Ethics and Innovation
How can ethics be integrated into technical innovation?

Panel 3: Ethics and Research
What can be the role for ethics in FP8?

The event is aimed at a broad audience including
 Policy-makers
 ICT Industry developers
 Researchers
 Ethics Reviewers
There will be a lively discussion and debate between the different
stakeholders on issues of ethics and future and emerging technologies.

If you would like to register for this unprecedented event please click on
the link below and register your interest by close of business Wednesday
16th March 2011. Attendance is free but registration is required.

http://www.etica-project.eu/

We look forward to hearing from you, however in the meantime if you have any
further questions and or queries then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,

Philippe goujon etica wp4 responsible

Philippe Goujon
Professeur
Faculté d'Informatique - Computer Science Department
FUNDP
Rue Grandgagnage, 21- B 5000 NAMUR
32+81 72 5258 - FAX 32+ 81 72 49 67
mail.pgo at info.fundp.ac.be

présentation page perso:
  http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html
http://fundp.academia.edu/Philippegoujon

Projets en cours:
Projet IG3T :
http ://www.info.fundp.ac.be/IG3T

projets européens:
projet ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT 
Applications) : http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk:8080/

projet EGAIS (The Etical GovernAnce of emerging 
technologieS: http://www.egais-project.eu/
- New Governance perspective for integrating 
ethics into Technical development Projects and Applications)

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.
Albert Einstein

"La vérité ne triomphe jamais mais ses ennemis 
finissent toujours par disparaître"
- Max Planck
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