Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Rafael Capurro
International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE)
Riga Global Meeting of Experts on the Ethical Aspects
of Information Society
UNESCO - IFAP
October 16-17, 2013
Introduction
Since the second half of the last century
computer scientists, such as Norbert
Wiener and Joseph Weizenbaum, called
publics attention to the ethical
challenges immanent in computer
technology that can be compared in
their societal relevance to the
ambivalent promises of nuclear energy.
Capurro, Riga 2013
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In the beginning the discussion was
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Half a century after Wieners seminal
work the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS)
developed the vision
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[] to build a people-centred,
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in promoting their sustainable
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The WSIS also proposed a political
agenda, namely
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[] to harness the potential of
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improvement of maternal health; to
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UNESCO commitment to IE: Organizing and sponsoring international
meetings and fora particularly within the framework of IFAP, such as:
First WSIS+10 Review Meeting: Towards Knowledge Societies,
February 25-27, 2013, Paris.
Sustainable support of the ANIE (African Network for
Information Ethics) conferences since 2007.
International Conference: Media and Information Literacy for
Knowledge Societies 24-28 June 2012, Moscow.
International Conference: Internet and Socio-Cultural
Transformations in Information Society, September 8-9, 2013,
Yuszno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation.
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Conclusion
Individuals as well as societies must
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The vision of an inclusive information
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Who are we in the digital age? As
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The digital medium is an opportunity
for the subjects of the 21st century
to transform themselves and their
relations in and with the world.
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This implies allowing each other to
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Note
This presentation is based on my
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