FuturICT — The road towards ethical ICT
FuturICT — The road towards ethical ICT
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DOI：
10.1140/epjst/e2012-01691-2
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2012-10
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通讯作者：
J. Hoven;D. Helbing;D. Pedreschi;J. Domingo-Ferrer;F. Giannotti;M. Christen
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作者：
J. Hoven;D. Helbing;D. Pedreschi;J. Domingo-Ferrer;F. Giannotti;M. Christen
信息和通信技术（ICT）在现代社会中的广泛使用为个人、机构、企业和科学家提供了无数机会，但也带来了棘手的伦理和社会问题。特别是，信息和通信技术使社会变得更加复杂，从而更难理解，这阻碍了为避免伤害和增加共同利益而进行的社会和政治干预。为了克服这一障碍，欧盟的大型旗舰提案“未来信息和通信技术”打算建立一个平台，将全球人类知识作为一种公益物和工具，通过利用基于信息和通信技术的研究来增进我们对信息社会的了解。在这篇文章中，我们概述了这种奋进的伦理理由。我们认为，FuturICT研究项目提出的伦理问题与许多已知的ICT使用中出现的伦理问题基本重叠。通过参考价值敏感设计的概念，我们展示了隐私的例子如何在FuturICT的框架内进行研究时保护负责任的ICT的核心价值。此外，我们还进一步讨论了伦理问题，并概述了未来ICT的制度设计，以解决这些问题。
AbstractThe pervasive use of information and communication technology (ICT) in modern societies enables countless opportunities for individuals, institutions, businesses and scientists, but also raises difficult ethical and social problems. In particular, ICT helped to make societies more complex and thus harder to understand, which impedes social and political interventions to avoid harm and to increase the common good. To overcome this obstacle, the large-scale EU flagship proposal FuturICT intends to create a platform for accessing global human knowledge as a public good and instruments to increase our understanding of the information society by making use of ICT-based research. In this contribution, we outline the ethical justification for such an endeavor. We argue that the ethical issues raised by FuturICT research projects overlap substantially with many of the known ethical problems emerging from ICT use in general. By referring to the notion of Value Sensitive Design, we show for the example of privacy how this core value of responsible ICT can be protected in pursuing research in the framework of FuturICT. In addition, we discuss further ethical issues and outline the institutional design of FuturICT allowing to address them.Graphical abstract