FuturICT - The Road towards Ethical ICT
Jeroen van den Hoven, Dirk Helbing, Dino Pedreschi, Josep, Domingo-Ferrer, Fosca Gianotti, Markus Christen

TL;DR
FuturICT aims to develop an ethical, ICT-based platform for understanding the information society, emphasizing responsible design and addressing social and ethical challenges of pervasive technology use.
Contribution
This paper presents the ethical framework and institutional design for FuturICT, integrating Value Sensitive Design to address privacy and other ethical issues in large-scale ICT research.
Findings
Ethical issues in FuturICT overlap with general ICT ethical problems.
Value Sensitive Design can protect core values like privacy.
Institutional structures are proposed to manage ethical concerns.
Abstract
The 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…
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