25 October 2022

The 18th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, is going to address the topic “Workforce for the Digital Transformation” from different perspectives. One of the keynote speakers will be Prof. Dr. Judith Simon. Digital technologies are permeating and thereby affecting almost every aspect of our lives. How can we ensure that the technologies developed are not only technologically and scientifically good, but also good for society? Judith Simon will address this question in her keynote at the morning session on October 25, 2022 from 8:30 to 10:15 CEST.

When: 25.10.2022, 8:30-10:15 CEST

Where: Hamburg, Germany

Conference Schedule: https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/schedule.html#day2

IT for Good? Ethics in Computer Science Education & Practice

Judith Simon

 
Abstract
Digital technologies are permeating and thereby affecting almost every aspect of our lives. How can we ensure that the technologies developed are not only technologically and scientifically good, but also good for society? To address this question, I will present three approaches to ethics in technologies: ethics in technology as the 1) ethics of the profession, 2) ethics of the use of technologies and 3) ethics of the technological artefacts themselves. I will argue that designing, developing and employing IT for good, requires a combination of these three approaches and their embedding in computer science education and practice.