ETHICOMP 1998 Conference Programme
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DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH 1998
08:30Registration
09:30Opening Remarks
10:00Co-directors' Address
11:00 1 The World through Windows: aspects of communication and domination in contemporary culture
Gerrit du Preez
Going for broke, not brokerage: what the virtual university can ethically bring to the electronic marketplace
Rosane Pagano and Ian Kennedy White
Information Ethics: From Case-based Analyses to Theoretical Foundations
Luciano Floridi
11:30 2 Projects from Hell - The Ethics of IT Project Planning
David H. Gleason
Internet Pornography: hazard, or hype?
Duncan Langford
Interactive Computer Ethics Explorer
Walter Maner
Equity of Access and Adaptive Technology
Frances Grodzinsky
12:00 3 People-Centred Information Systems Development
Julie Ward and Clare Stephenson
The Case for Responsibility of the Computing Industry to Promote Equal Presentation of Women and Men in Advertising Campaigns
Eva Turner
Computers in school and the formation of social values
Jan Holmqvist
A theological reflection on integrated information networks
Richard Thomas
12:30Lunch
2:00 4 Ethical Aspects of the Employment of Expert Systems in Medicine
B. Spyropoulos and G. Papagounos
Electronic Commerce and Auditing in Cyberspace
Douglas W. Barbin
The Development of Computer Ethics: Contributions from Business Ethics and Medical Ethics
Kenman Wong and Gerhard Steinke
2:30Panel 1 - Industrial views of computer ethics
3:30Break
4:00 5 Ethical Issues in the Use of One-to-One Information Distribution: Observations from an Enabler's Point of View
Bill McDaniel and Pat McGrew
Development of a Case-based Reasoner as a tool to Facilitate Ethical Understanding
Harjinder Rahanu, Jennifer Davies and Simon Rogerson
Teaching Ethics in Computer Science - How it is approached in Spanish Universities
Rosalia Peña and Javier Extremera
The Right to Know Versus the Right to Own: The Ethical Dilemma of Intellectual Freedom Versus Intellectual Property - A South African Case Study
Johannes J. Britz and K. E. van Zyl
4:30 6 Some Perspectives Concerning Two Elements of Computer Ethics
Mikko T. Siponen and Jorma Kajava
New Information Based Organisations: A Conceptual Approach
Mario Arias-Oliva
Information Literacy, a Sine Qua Non of the Learning Environment, and a Moral Imperative for Educators
Lester J. Pourciau
5:00END OF DAY 1
DAY 2 THURSDAY 26 MARCH 1998
09:30 7 Data Medical Privacy Act: an Italian Lacking. Some Remarks
Luigi Gerardi
Intercontinental Coding: A Challenge to Policy Domains
Alexandra Samuel
Teaching Information Integrity - an ethical approach
Phil Clipsham, Dave Chadwick and Andrew Stanley
The commodifcation of information and the extension of property rights into the public domain
Tomas Lipinski
10:00 8 The Problem of the Ethics in the Advertising in the Information Society: the Italian Experience
Diego Rispoli
Counselling via the Internet: Is it Ethical?
Dave Robson and Maggie Robson
Raising Ethical Awareness in Systems Development
Alastair Irons and Paul Kelly
The Moralistic Dimensions of Unauthorised Copying of Software - Selected Issues
Mikko T. Siponen and Jorma Kajava
10:30Break
11:00 9 Re-engineering of Values in the Global Information Society
Alberto Abruzzese and Carlo Grasi
Characteristics correlated with an individual's predisposition to making a computer related ethical judgement
Cheryl Welch
New Professionals, New Measures of Worth, New Ethic of Collaboration
Chris Simpson and Oliver Burmeister
Rethinking Technology, Revitalising Ethics: Overcoming Barriers to Ethical Design
Patrick Feng
11:30 10 Bionic: a link between Computer Ethics and Bioethics
Antonio Marturano
Computer use and abuse within organisations: understanding ethics of a workplace
Shalini Kesar and Simon Rogerson
Professional ethics and the role of chartered societies: a case study
John Lindsay
Encountering the World with Ubiquitous Computing
Agustin A. Araya
12:00 11 Authorities: A New Non Authoritarian Approach
Ugo G. Pacifici Noja
IT and the Workplace: Perspectives on Technology and the Responsibilites of Experts
Frans A.J. Birrer
12:30Lunch
2:00 12 The Internet and Public Interest Theory
Marcus Breen
Technology, blessing or curse for employment and labour? - a technophilosophical approach
Hendrik Opdebeeck
Computer Mediated Communications and International Communities of Practice
Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble and Peter Wright
Patenting Mathematical Formulas: Whats the Harm? A Thought-Experiment in Algebra
Paul de Laat
2:30Panel 2 - Ethical Marketing in the computer industry
3:30Break
4:00 13 Subjective and Objective Knowledge in a small and complex Relational Data Base
Philip Hughes Farro
The Workplace on the verge of the 21st Century
Richard S. Rosenberg
Who will bear moral responsibility?
David Anderson
Surveillance in Employment: the case of Teleworking
N Ben Fairweather
4:30 14 Designing and Filtering On-line Information Quality: New Perspectives for Information Service Providers
Laure Berti and David Graveleau
The IT revolution and the future of hierarchies
Jecek Sojka
The Ethics of the Internet in a Digitized Society.
Porfirio Barroso and John Weckert
5:00END OF DAY 2
DAY 3 FRIDAY 27 MARCH 1998
09:00 15 "Profession" and Professional Ethics: an IT perspective
Andrew Korac-Kakabadse and Nada Korac-Kakabadse
09:30 16 Worker Autonomy and the Technological Drama of Digital Netwoks in Organizations
Philip Brey
Creating an Organisational Awareness of Ethical Responsibility about Information Technology
Joyce C. Little and Mary J. Granger
Privacy in the information age: stakeholders, interests and values
Lucas Introna and Nancy Pouloudi
10:00 17 Information Society, Ethics and the EU
Bethan Ilett
Improving job design by stealth: a practical or an ethical issue?
Tom Gough
Women and Computing: The Ethical Responsibility of the IT Industry
Niki Panteli, Janet Stack, Malcolm Atkinson and Harvie Ramsay
Preserving market space and the private place
Tomas Lipinski
10:30Break
11:00 18 Conflict and the computer: Information Warfare and Related Ethical Issues
Sam Nitzberg
Let us reorganize the networked computerized workplace from an ethical point of view
Thomas B. Hodel-Widmer and Ambros P. Luthi
Some Themes Concerning Professional Ethics and Emotional and Moral Knowing-How in the Field of IT
Mikko T. Siponen and Jorma Kajava
Privacy and Trust: Information, Government and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Charles D Raab
11:30Panel 3 - Electronic monitoring
12:30Lunch
2:00 19 How to do things with Kant: conscientiousness in information management
David Sanford Horner
Envy and Destructiveness: Understanding the Impulses Behind Computer Viruses
Andy Bissett and Geraldine Shipton
Email, Voicemail, and Privacy: What Policy is Ethical?
Marsha Woodbury
2:30 20 UK views of ethical and spiritual implications of IT
Harold Thimbleby, Penny Duquenoy and Nicholas Beale
Inspection Mechanism for Server-and-Client Protocols with Private-Key Cipher
Kanta Matsuura and Hideki Imai
Email Ethics
Pat Gannon-Leary
3:00Closing Plenary
4:00CLOSE CONFERENCE