ITPE webinar on IT professional ethics to be held 15 February
The next ITPE webinar ‘Responsibility in tech – ethical challenges for IT professionals’ will take place on 15 February at 10:00 CET. We will discuss the responsibility of IT professionals when developing new technologies that may have legal/ethical implications related to e.g., data usage or biased algorithms.
G20 releases Ministerial Declaration on digitalisation of education
The G20 countries have issued a Ministerial Declaration on digitalisation of education, which emphasises the importance of promoting human-centred technological development and addressing the digital divide in research and higher education as well as mitigating the security risks in digital environments.
Have your say: public consultation on EU digital principles
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on a set of new digital principles to “promote and uphold EU values in the digital space”. This consultation is open until 2 September 2021.
Have your say: EU AI legal and ethical requirements
The European Commission is collecting stakeholder feedback on the recently adopted act on legal and ethical requirements for Artificial Intelligence (AI), which aims to ensure that AI is safe, lawful and in line with EU fundamental rights.
Open consultation: new paper on ethics in higher education
International network of teachers and institutions, Globethics.net, has launched a consultation inviting comments and contributions on the paper ‘Ethics in Higher Education as a Key Driver to Recovery in the Higher Education Sector in a World Living with COVID-19’.
Register for ethical tech governance discussion on 23 March
Three EU-funded projects on professional ethics – SIENNA, SHERPA and PANELFIT – will discuss their findings and policy options for ethical governance of disruptive technologies at the Panel for Future Sciences and Technologies held on 23 March.
IFIP publishes Code of Ethics
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) has published their Code of Ethics which will also be brought out as a book later this year. The Code outlines principles that IT professionals should aspire to.
Commission Vice-President proposes ethical guidelines for social media algorithms
Vera Jourova, the European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, spoke out against disinformation on social media. She suggested new ethical guidelines for developing algorithms.
ITPE’s Professional Ethics Expert Group Meeting held on 9 December
ITPE’s Professional Ethics Expert Group Meeting was held virtually on 9 December. Discussions centered on the various definitions of ethics and how best to go from theory to practice and that this may vary from country to country.
Have your say: CEN survey on ICT professional ethics framework
EU ICT Ethics working group aims to develop a CEN Technical Specification which will provide the foundation for defining practical guidelines (Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics).
