Search engines and the problem of transparency

AUTHOR Dag Elgesem ABSTRACT Search engines are becoming increasingly important as mechanisms for getting access to information on the web. They have thus acquired considerable power and some authors have even suggested that Google and the other big players in the search engine market function as the new gate-keepers to the web. Several authors, including […]

History of Computer Ethics through some representative codes of ethics

AUTHOR Lucia Tello Diaz, Porfirio Barroso Asenjo, Rishwina Dookhony ABSTRACT During the last quarter of the twentieth century Computer Science and Information Technologies have radically transformed the world. The emergence of Computer Science and the wave of technological advancement have made sharing, accessing and transmitting of information easier than ever before. Computer Science and Information […]

Ethical issues: GIS and SoDIS – a Tongan affair

AUTHOR Simon Dacey, Catherine Snell-Siddle ABSTRACT Technologies that are being developed according to the needs of a particular society depend largely on the level of skills, available materials, economy, requirements and cultural traits of that society. If such technologies are proved to work successfully within a given society, cultural differences may not allow those technologies […]

The usefulness of intellectual capital metrics in the knowledge society: a Delphi study

AUTHOR Teresa Torres-Coronas,Ricard Monclús-Guitart, Arantxa Vidal-Blasco, Mario Arias-Oliva ABSTRACT Over the past several years there have been intensive discussions about the importance of intellectual capital –IC- within the business world. The management of IC is promoted as an important and necessary factor for organisational survival and maintenance of competitive strength. One of the main quests […]