Abstract
Ethical
issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are
important because they can have significant effects on human liberty,
happiness, and people’s ability to lead a good life. They are also of
functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are
used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons,
policy makers are interested in finding out what these issues are and
how they can be addressed. The best way of creating ICT policy that is
sensitive to ethical issues pertain to being proactive in addressing
such issues at an early stage of the technology life cycle. The present
paper uses this position as a starting point and discusses how knowledge
of ethical aspects of emerging ICTs can be gained. It develops a
methodology that goes beyond established futures methodologies to cater
for the difficult nature of ethical issues. The authors outline how the
description of emerging ICTs can be used for an ethical analysis.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 20-38 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | International Journal of Technoethics |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- concepts
- emerging ICT
- ethical analysis
- ethics
- methodology
