On considering the application of Amartya Sen's capability approach to an information-based rights framework

Britz, Johannes; Hoffmann, Anthony; Ponelis, Shana R.; Zimmer, Michael; Lor, Peter Johan

doi:10.1177/0266666912454025

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“…De George [15], Britz [4,5], Tavani [56], van Dijk [58,59], and Floridi [22] provide connections between philosophical theory and contemporary information society contexts, which informs our perspective and empirical investigation.…”

Section: The Digital Divide Broadband Affordability and Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Affordable Broadband: Bridging the Global Digital Divide, a Social Justice Approach

Weiss

Yates

Gulati

2016

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

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Access to broadband Internet is becoming a necessity for obtaining information and resources about healthcare, education, and employment. However, the broadband global digital divide continues to inhibit and limit individuals' access within and among nations. We address the question, What factors hinder and enable people from being able to afford broadband access to obtain vital information? This paper uses social justice theory (Rawls [47] and Sen [52][53][54][55]) as applied to information ethics (Floridi [21,22],, van Dijk [58,59]) to empirically examine the relationship between measures of social justice and individual capability on broadband affordability in 146 countries. The results from our statistical model show that measures of social justice and individual capability are positively associated with affordable broadband access across countries.

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Section: The Digital Divide Broadband Affordability and Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Affordable Broadband: Bridging the Global Digital Divide, a Social Justice Approach

Weiss

Yates

Gulati

2016

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

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“…The other opinion is that systems for protecting information rights are essential to human wellbeing [24]. Some authors argue that the confidentiality of information is necessary for businesses to maintain their competitive advantage [3].…”

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Information Availability and Security and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Cases

Loskutova¹,

Parbhu²

2019

SAIEE Afr. Res. J.

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act deals with businesses found guilty of bribing foreign officials. The increasing number of cases and high financial penalties present a growing concern for businesses operating or planning to start operating abroad. The ratings of Transparency International offer an indicator of corruption in countries; however, the analysis shows that this indicator is not correlated with the occurrence of FCPA cases in a particular country. This article shows that the level of availability of information is more important in predicting and potentially preventing the need for FCPA investigations whilst the level of information security is correlated with the perception of corruption and not directly linked to the number of FCPA cases. Using the data of cases filed in 2016-2017, the article discusses how the factors of information availability and security influence the likelihood of an FCPA investigation in a country. The article contributes to empirical studies on corruption by focusing on fact-based data on corruption as opposed to perception-based data and shows that these two sets of data do not correlate. Significant correlations between various measures of information availability in countries with the differing level of human development suggest that both companies and societies can leverage from the availability of information to use different informational practices and policies strategically to combat bribery.

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“…Here, Rawls's work is often contrasted against an already existing critique-most commonly, Sen's "capabilities approach"-in order to better illustrate the alternative position. Examples of this approach include: capabilities analyses of morality and robots as caretakers (Borenstein & Pearson, 2010;Vallor, 2011);Coeckelbergh's (2011) articulation of the capabilities approach as a suitable foundation for a comprehensive "ethical-anthropological framework"; Johnstone's (2007) application of the capabilities approach for normative analyses of technology generally; and Britz, Hoffmann, Ponelis, Zimmer, and Lor's (2013) discussion of capabilities in an information-based rights framework. Outside of capabilities discussions, Rawls is also cited as incompatible with a feminist ethics of care (Capurro, 2008;Froelich, 2004).…”

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Beyond distributions and primary goods: Assessing applications of rawls in information science and technology literature since 1990

Hoffmann

2016

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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This article reviews the ways in which the work and ideas of political philosopher John Rawls have been appropriated or applied by scholars of information science, technology, and related areas since 1990. The article begins with an overview of Rawls's work, paying particular attention to its foundations and methods. Subsequently, a 2‐phase discussion of the literature is presented. The first phase reviews engagements with Rawls from more than 150 scholarly articles from databases and journals dedicated to information and technology ethics, information/technology studies, philosophy of technology, and technology and human values. The second phase focuses on scholars who have demonstrated a significant commitment to Rawlsian theory in these areas. Overall, the review demonstrates that most significant applications of Rawls are oriented toward unequal distributions of informational goods exacerbated by advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs). Critically, however, scholars in this area have overlooked the relevance of Rawls's foundations for the sorts of complex networked relationships afforded by those same advanced ICTs. Rather than representing a fatal gap, it opens up a new avenue for the renewed consideration of Rawls—his ideas on the basic structure of society and the importance of self‐respect are offered as 2 possible paths forward.

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On considering the application of Amartya Sen's capability approach to an information-based rights framework

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Affordable Broadband: Bridging the Global Digital Divide, a Social Justice Approach

Affordable Broadband: Bridging the Global Digital Divide, a Social Justice Approach

Information Availability and Security and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Cases

Beyond distributions and primary goods: Assessing applications of rawls in information science and technology literature since 1990

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