AUTHOR B R Mandre, C G Aher, D V Patil, Atulchandra Kulkarni ABSTRACT The information technology stands for the technology in making the information available for the people. It itself gives the freedom of information. But total freedom of information may raise some serious issues in the information society. In spite of freedom of information […]
AUTHOR Fillia Makedon, C.B. Owen, C. Sudborough, S. Kapidakis, P. Gloor, C. Heckman, J. Ford, J. Pearlman ABSTRACT Cases where the failure to share information places humans or property at risk present an ethical dilemma: the risk of harm supports ethical arguments for less restrictive information sharing, while privacy and ownership concerns support ethical arguments […]
AUTHOR Peter Madsen ABSTRACT Digital Fluency is the title of a project that has recently revised Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Skills Workshop to integrate computer ethics topics with those dealing with competent computer use. The overall goal of the project is to make students aware of their responsibilities as citizens of our campus and of […]
AUTHOR Richard Lucas ABSTRACT “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that” Is it possible or even desirable for Autonomous Software Agents (ASAs) to be socially responsible? Since it is usually agreed that to be socially responsible implies a sense of morality some steps towards answering this large question can be taken by asking the smaller […]
AUTHOR Tomas A. Lipinski ABSTRACT Recent developments in the United States, a jurisdiction heretofore considered vesting its citizens with broad array of free speech rights, including the right to speak and to receive information and its concomitant right to read has undergone challenge in the past two years. The traditional loci for the exercise of […]
AUTHOR Paul B. de Laat ABSTRACT The so-called `open source software movement’ enjoyed a huge increase in popularity over the last decade. The movement has multiplied in scale. This holds for both `output’ – software in source code form to be used freely by anyone, and `process’ – networks of thousands of volunteer hackers working […]