Abstract
Most research on ICT ethics concentrates either on
existing usages of technologies and current issues or on
questions that raise significant theoretical or practical
interest, such as ICT implants or healthcare ICT. What is
currently missing is a systematic attempt to identify
ethical issues in development and implementation of
technologies that are not yet widely used but which can
plausibly be predicted to be commonly used in a time
frame of about 10 years.
The Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications (ETICA)
project will move beyond the state of the art in ICT
ethics by offering a comprehensive overview of ethical
and social issues in ICT that are likely to develop in
the medium term future. ETICA will do this by providing a
list of emerging technologies and their applications as
well as develop a matrix of technological applications
within which ICT ethical issues can be easily identified.
The potential ethical issues will be subsequently ranked
and graded by evaluating them according to top priority
issues. By distinguishing between technologies and
applications and using the resulting issues matrix, the
ETICA approach will allow for the identification of
issues that are currently not yet on the agenda. The
matrix and resulting evaluation will be useful for
continuous monitoring of the ICT field.
One of the first tasks of the ETICA project is to develop
a research approach that will allow a maximally
comprehensive identification of emerging ICTs and their
applications. By comprehensive identification we mean the
review and assessment of materials that are collected for
identification purposes of emerging technologies from
various sources of information. Thus the data is
collected from policies, research programmes, research
and market forecasts and research projects as well as
from selected citizen driven sources.
In this deliverable we describe the basic process and
materials that we believe will be suitable for the ETICA
project's' objectives and goals.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 33 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| MoE publication type | D4 Published development or research report or study |
Keywords
- emerging ICT
- heuristics
- foresight