AUTHOR Steve McRobb ABSTRACT At ETHICOMP 2005, Orito and Murata presented a paper that argued cogently for a different interpretation of the social meaning of privacy in a Japanese cultural context. They stated that many Japanese use the imported word for privacy “without clearly understanding its meaning” (Orito and Murata, 2005). In traditional Japanese culture, […]
AUTHOR Karen Mather ABSTRACT When they claim professional status, ICT professionals implicitly acknowledge responsibility towards a range of different communities. For example, ICT professionals should ensure that their work does not harm their society at large, their user communities, their various clienteles, the ICT profession as a whole, and so on. It now appears that […]
AUTHOR Michiko MATSUSHITA ABSTRACT Many under-developing countries have same problems; they need long time and huge cost for building up infrastructure, for example supply of water, electric power, transportation, or telephone. The ordinary route of economic development starts from preparation of infrastructure and production of light industries, and move to machine industry. Nowadays, the speed […]
AUTHOR Noemi Manders-Huits, Paul Sollie ABSTRACT The development of information and communication technologies enables the expanding of our social and political lives/activities to a global level, e.g. one of tremendous networks such as Hyves and Second Life. These are Internet services to respectively maintain and create online friendships and to live a second, virtual life […]
AUTHOR Robert S. Marsel ABSTRACT Business Ethics is a complex and difficult topic to study and it is also difficult to teach. Given how many ethical problems have affected the corporate world in the past ten years [e.g., Enron, Tyco, and Boeing] it seems imperative that the topic be given renewed attention. Global communication is […]
AUTHOR Richard Lucas, Yeslam Al-Saggaf ABSTRACT Introduction The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in partnership with the Australian Computer Society has received funding from the Australian government’s Australian Research Council for a project to examine ethics and regulation in the ICT industry. The project will provide a new integrity system for the […]