AUTHOR Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska ABSTRACT The subject The subject of this paper is the problem of knowledge in relation to the idea of democracy. Democracy is understood here mainly in its basic form, i.e, as „government by the people” and „a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.” (Webster’s Dictionary, 1996) An […]
AUTHOR David H. Gleason ABSTRACT I. Introduction “Subsumption Ethics” was first published at CEPE 11 years ago and much has changed in ICT since then. In particular, the pace of communication has increased while the friction on information transfer has decreased. Web 2.0 and 3.0 functionality is now mainstream, and many users share their most […]
AUTHOR Jean-Gabriel Ganascia ABSTRACT Generalized sousveillance A spectre is haunting the contemporaneous world, the spectre of “Nineteen Eighty-Four” [9], the famous Orwell’s novel. With webcams, RFID tags, remote sensing techniques and many other new information technologies, it now becomes possible to continuously record all the daily activities of everybody [1, 8]. Moreover, in many developed […]
AUTHOR Georgia Foteinou ABSTRACT In the era of the digital revolution most governments around the world adopt relevant technological strategies and try to construct the so called “e-government”. However, what should be done is not obvious and the decision to follow the strategy of the most developed countries is not always a wise choice. What […]
AUTHOR William M. Fleischman ABSTRACT Since the introduction of electronic voting systems following the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, numerous studies have disclosed serious and unsettling flaws in virtually all of the electronic voting devices marketed and in use in the United States. Since HAVA was intended to prevent problems […]
AUTHOR William M. Fleischman ABSTRACT Between June 1985 and January 1987, a series of accidents involving the Therac-25 medical linear accelerator caused severe injuries to six cancer patients. Three of these patients died as the result of massive radiation overdoses to which they were exposed. The accidents were found to have been caused by the […]