Issues, Concepts and Methods Relating to the Identification of the Ethics of Emerging ICTs

Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, their ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positives potential can unfold

Ethics, technology and governance: condition for efficiency of ethical reflexivity in technological project : Investigating contextual proceduralism - from european lessons to South American application

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a growing impact, including ethical and social impact, on all aspects of life today. The potential for ethical impacts increase as ICT becomes more complex and invisible to the user, as envisioned in the concepts of ubiquitous and ambient intelligence, and converge with other new and emerging technologies. It appears important to consider potential ethical issues before and during information technology development, even if the ability to anticipate these effects by the proposers of the technology projects can be more difficult due to the complexity and convergence issues.Presentado en el I ETHICOMP LatinoaméricaRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI