AUTHOR Richard Lucas and John Weckert ABSTRACT Introduction As a result of a survey and in-depth interviews conducted by the authors (and others) in 2007 they have developed a list of a number of areas within the broad field of ethics, regulations, and ICT 1 within the Australian ICT Industry that are in need of […]
AUTHOR Mike Leigh and Mary Prior ABSTRACT In recent years there has been a huge expansion in the use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in academic institutions. ‘E-learning’ and ‘blended learning’ seek to enhance the learning experience of students in higher education and to help address the different learning styles of students. However, in the […]
AUTHOR Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone and Federico Gobbo ABSTRACT Attempting to formalize ethical knowledge and reasoning serves two purposes: understanding human ethics and designing computer ethics. While the former is descriptive, subject to the intricacies of human behaviors and scarcely prone to systematic experimentation, the latter is prescriptive, can be experimented with little limitations and has […]
AUTHOR Paul B. de Laat ABSTRACT The phenomenon of open source software (OSS) is a technical miracle on the one hand: thousands of volunteers work together on a globally distributed basis. In order to keep chaos at bay, quite a range of formal governance tools have been developed. On the other hand, OSS is a […]
AUTHOR Mikael Laaksoharju and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos ABSTRACT Organizations often have policies and guidelines concerning decisions where moral judgment is required. But what happens when these rules of thumb are not directly applicable on the moral problem in question? The result is often that the individual dealing with the issue is left to her or his […]
AUTHOR Sunil Kumar, Manju Dhariwal, Arun K Pujari and Raghubir Sharan ABSTRACT Within a very short period of time, ICTs have become increasingly ubiquitous in the world. In fact, these are getting interwoven in our lives. In this process, ICTs have created a good deal of expectation that these can be employed to enhance the […]