Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital

Floridi, Luciano

doi:10.1007/s13347-018-0303-9

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“…Richards and King suggest [170] four high-level principles for setting up legal and ethical big data norms. Floridi [171] discusses digital governance, digital ethics and digital regulation, and their relationships. In particular, Floridi [171] defines digital ethics as "the branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral problems relating to data and information (including generation, recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing and use), algorithms (including AI, artificial agents, machine learning and robots) and corresponding practices and infrastructures (including responsible innovation, programming, hacking, professional codes and standards), in order to formulate and support morally good solutions (e.g., good conduct or good values)".…”

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A Novel ICT Framework for Sustainable Development Goals

Kostoska

Kocarev

2019

Sustainability

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Sustainable development is critical to ensure the future of humanity. Therefore, the assessment and governance of sustainability becomes a central challenge our society is facing. This paper provides a novel ICT framework for addressing sustainable development goals. It is characterized by both local and global considerations, in the context of economic, ecological, and social aspects of sustainable development. The framework consists of three modules: data module, sustainability module, and governance module. Data module integrates data from several sources, processes data, infers knowledge, and transforms data into understandable information and knowledge. The second module implements SDGs at the level of municipality/city, ensures ranking of locally transformed SDGs to arrange them in line with the values and needs of the local communities, and proposes an integrated approach in modeling the social-ecological systems. By implementing governance theories, the governance module permits an effective citizen engagement in governance of SDGs. The ICT framework addresses short-term and long-term SDGs and allows for the vertical and horizontal linkages among diverse stakeholders, as well as for their contributions to the nested rule structures employed at operational, collective, and constitutional levels. Thus, the framework we provide here ensures a paradigm shift in approaching SDGs for the advancement of our society.

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A Novel ICT Framework for Sustainable Development Goals

Kostoska

Kocarev

2019

Sustainability

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“…What is apparent is that with greater technological input, certain shifting notions in digital ethics, and their resultant implications in medical and telemedicine ethics, are creating new concerns. [24] How are these concerns to be reconciled in a meaningful, feasible and sustainable way that will both anticipate and steer the ethical development of technological innovation?…”

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The development of ethical guidelines for telemedicine in South Africa

2019

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While telemedicine holds enormous promise for the provision of remote healthcare, it is not without its challenges. Recently, there has been a shift in the way in which healthcare is being practised globally. These new models of healthcare service provision ideally involve patients, doctors and machines working together, with few constraints imposed by geography, or national or institutional boundaries. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines eHealth simply as 'the use of information and communication technologies [ICT] for health'; [1] telemedicine, as a subset of eHealth, is the practice and delivery of healthcare over a distance using ICT. [2] The focus of this article is telemedicine. However, the term eHealth will be applied when speaking of the use of ICT in healthcare generally, and telehealth where this term is applied by others, or when a slightly more generic perspective (one that includes telemedicine) is required. Although largely beneficial, there is growing reflection on the legal and ethical challenges and complexities posed by these newly unfolding eHealth measures. [3,4] There is a need for guidance with regard to the eHealth landscape in South Africa (SA). It is understood that the emergence of telemedicine has created various legal and ethical dilemmas. [5,6] The broad ethical challenges are identified as: the changing nature of the traditional doctor-patient relationship; standards of care; quality of care; privacy; confidentiality; data protection; accountability; liability; consent; record-keeping; data storage; and authentication. While various legal, regulatory, and governance measures offer potential solutions and remedies for rights protection, the furtherance of ethical direction may be achieved through statutory bodies set up to promote and foster ethical compliance with normative healthcare standards. In SA, the Health Professions Council (HPCSA) spent several years developing the 'General ethical guidelines for good practice in telemedicine' (the HPCSA telemedicine guidelines), [7] a process which they found difficult. [8] Advances in technology and telemedicine have rendered several aspects of these guidelines, which focus largely on videoconference-based telemedicine, inappropriate. The guidelines are largely based on the World Medical Association (WMA)'s 2007 'Statement on the ethics of telemedicine' , which was rescinded in 2009, and replaced with a far more pragmatic statement on 'Guiding principles for the use of telehealth for the provision of healthcare' , which took recent advances in the field into account. [9] The field has since advanced further, with the growing use of mobile phones for telemedicine. The current shortcomings of the HPCSA guidelines need to be addressed if telemedicine is to meet the government's desire for telemedicine to improve both access to and quality of care for those in rural areas. This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.

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“…As IoT is a relatively young and still evolving technology infrastructure, the consequences it brings for individuals, organizations, industries and nations and, in particular, the future implications and requirements for effectively managing and governing IoT are still being shaped. Further, the "synecdoche use" of the digital governance term across the fields of IoT, big data analytics and digital development more broadly requires clarification [19]. Floridi [19] argues that in using the digital governance term care must be taken to ensure that other normative matters, namely digital ethics and digital regulation, are understood as separate and overlapping to avoid confusion.…”

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“…Further, the "synecdoche use" of the digital governance term across the fields of IoT, big data analytics and digital development more broadly requires clarification [19]. Floridi [19] argues that in using the digital governance term care must be taken to ensure that other normative matters, namely digital ethics and digital regulation, are understood as separate and overlapping to avoid confusion. Based on the characterization of IoT we examine the implications for governance and in doing so: identify areas requiring further attention for research and practice; and bring further clarity in how the governance term is used.…”

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“…The impact of IoT through big data analytics for building "sustainable futures" and "sustainable lifestyles" in areas such as energy management, healthcare, manufacturing, emergency management [62], the environment [39] and smart cities [27] is uncertain and dynamic. Yet, in following Floridi's [19] argument we should "resist" the "distracting narrative" of disruption not because it "is wrong" but "it is superficially right." The pace of technological innovation is no doubt impacting business and society.…”

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Configuring The Internet of Things (IoT): A Review and Implications for Big Data Analytics

Williams

Hardy

Nitschke

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Big data analytics is emerging as a key initiative in the IoT field as data grows at unprecedented scale and depth. However, considerable uncertainty remains about how organizations are using big data analytics to capitalize on IoT. In this paper we argue that there is a need for a more refined depiction of the relationship between IoT and big data analytics as it tends to be linked by technological and economic viewpoints. Three principal claims are made. Firstly, there is a pressing need to clarify the characteristics configuring and shaping the discourses around IoT. We find that IoT is characterized as a complex, (more than) technological, multi-scale and multi-level information infrastructure that is emergent and uncertain. Secondly, the unique characteristics of IoT are challenging governance capabilities in big data analytics. Thirdly, the impact of IoT through big data analytics for building 'sustainable futures' raises questions about responsible research and innovation.

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Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital

Cited by 166 publications

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A Novel ICT Framework for Sustainable Development Goals

A Novel ICT Framework for Sustainable Development Goals

The development of ethical guidelines for telemedicine in South Africa

Configuring The Internet of Things (IoT): A Review and Implications for Big Data Analytics

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