In the ethical point of view – The Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology

Panel discussion: a collective questioning about quantum ethics

Click here to hear a recording (podcast) of the event! Event time: Thursday, September 26, 2024 – 4:00pm to 5:00pm Audience: Faculty, students, staff, researchers, community members, general public. Location: Southern Connecticut State University – Engleman Hall – Room A120 See map Panelists Colleen Bielitz Assoc. VP for Strategic Initiatives & Outreach, SCSU Florian Carle Managing Director, Yale Quantum Institute Matthew Enjalran Professor of Physics, SCSU Rye Howard-Stone Lecturer of Contemporary Issues in Computer Science and Engineering, UConn Sarah M. Roe (moderator) Director, Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology, SCSU The panel will be followed by a reception to continue the conversation. As quantum technology advances rapidly, it is crucial to consider its ethical implications. While quantum applications hold the potential to transform industries, they also pose significant moral challenges. Quantum computers, for instance, could dismantle current encryption methods, jeopardizing data privacy and cybersecurity. Their ability to solve complex problems at unprecedented speeds might create unfair advantages in sectors like finance or defense, further deepening existing inequalities. By addressing these ethical concerns early, we can ensure that quantum technology develops in ways that uphold fairness, privacy, and security for all. Join us for a discussion hosted by the Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology and the Yale Quantum Institute, with co-sponsorship Details

RC-VEST Discussion: Race & Medicine

April 10th 1:10-1:50pm EN C008 Free lunch bring your friends! Discuss and reflect about how race, medicine, and healthcare coverage are connected. A panel of students, staff and faculty will start the conversation! Please email Dr. Roe (roes1@southernct.edu) if you have any questions. Thank you to our panel and all who attended!

RC-VEST Documentary Screening “The Color of Care”

April 3rd 1-2:20pm (pop in any time) EN 121 A&B Free lunch! Bring your friends! Learn about race, medicine, and healthcare coverage in our communities. Contact Dr. Roe (roes1@southernct.edu) if you have any questions.

AUTHOR

Carlos Roxo and Gonçalo Costa (Lisbon)

ABSTRACT

Our goal with this paper, is related to the influence of the Internet on the young people of the not occidentalized countries. This analysis will try to reflect the opposite “feelings” that the young people of those countries have inside of them, which means what are the consequences of the Internet and its use in the life of those young people, because many of them have a different life concepts of the western young people.

This life concept is clearly a result of the historical, cultural and social environment, and most of the times totally different from the ideas, that are bounded of the Internet (environment that is related to the occidentalized countries). Is this “fight” that we will analyse, how the youngsters of those countries deal with the information that have access through the Internet.

How many times is it possible to the youngster survive in that daily struggle, between the values of their ancestors, and the values showed by this window that let us see the world. The layers in Indian society are clearly an example of this situation, because only the top layers have access to the benefits of trading ideas with other cultures and how the youngsters of this layers feel about it, since Internet is a “way” to change society (one of the main issues of our paper).

These explanations will be based in several examples, like the Indian society represented by the “conflict” lineage/ideas bounded by the Internet; like the internal struggle in China, with the socialist model and the islands of development in that country that adopt almost the capitalism model, and in that way how the young Chinese people of those regions feel about it, and other several examples, according with the bibliography.

It is common knowledge that Internet is the “mainstream” of new ideas, business, health, almost everything, but specially the “mainstream” of information of the different societies that exist and how the “cultural shock” between cultures, specially the western/eastern, north/south cultures and how the young people of the not occidentalized countries are influenced. The paper will not discuss the influence of the Internet in the youngsters of the occidentalized countries, because those youngsters are starting to have a global and similar culture.

That similar culture is a reality because of the globalisation, the values of the societies, which they belong, based on democratic values, the respect of human rights, and several others issues.

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