The information society : innovation, legitimacy, ethics and democracy : in honor of Professor Jacques Berleur s.j. : proceedings of the conference "Information Society: Governance, Ethics and Social Consequences," University of Namur, Belgium, 22-23 May 2006 / edited by Philippe Goujon ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berleur, J.

Goujon, Ph. (Philippe)

Series:

International Federation for Information Processing (Series)

IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society--Congresses.

Information society.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

This volume honors the professional life of Jacques Berleur - known for his extensive work within the IFIP community to expose the nature of the ethical dilemmas of a society increasingly relying on the complex ICT infrastructures, to raise awareness of the social challenges this poses, and to influence action compatible with the ethical values of western democracy.

This volume is composed of five sections, and covers the following topics in detail:

- Technology and Democracy: Views on the IS - Ethics and Democracy into the ICT

- Governance of IS: From Economic Regulation to a New Social Contract

- Applied Issues: Health, Profession and Education

- For an Ethical and Democratic Governance of the IS: Lessons from WSIS

Contents:

To Professor Jacques Berleur s.j.... / Philippe Goujon ix

Part 1 Technology and Democracy: Views on the IS 1

Democracy, Technology, and Information Societies / Deborah G. Johnson 5

Democracy, innovation, and the information society / Stefano Rodota 17

The Information/Knowledge society as Risk Society: Assessing and Enforcing IT safety and security standards for IT systems: about responsibility of experts and governments / Klaus Brunnstein 27

Part 2 Ethics and Democracy Into the ICT 35

From the Ethics of Technology to the Ethics of Knowledge Assessment / Rene Von Schomberg 39

Deliberative democracy: from Rational Discourse to Public Debate / Mattias Kettner 57

ICT and Value Sensitive Design / Jeroen van den Hoven 67

Part 3 Governance of IS: From Economic Regulation to a New Social Contract 73

Social Consequence of Information and Communication, Technologies and the European Union: Policy Links / Vasileios Laopodis 77

Economy, Industry, Innovation and Technical Democracy / Philippe Defraigne 89

When Economics meets Ethics: the Governance of Economic Activities in the Information Society / Eric Brousseau 101

The Institutional Dynamics of Sharing Biological Information: Towards Reflexive Governance of the information society / Tom Dedeurwaerdere 121

The Internet: New principles of political right, new social contract / Richard Delmas 147

Part 4 Applied Issues: Health, Profession and Education 153

Which Major Legal Concerns in future e-Health? / Jean Herveg, Yves Poullet 159

Embedding Professional Issues within University Degree Courses / Les Neal (and alii) 171

IT, Ethics and Education: Teaching the Teachers (and their Pupils) / Bern Mariens 181

Part 5 For an Ethical and Democratic Governance of the IS: Lessons from WSIS 195

Internet Governance: Some Thoughts after the two WSIS / Yves Poullet 201

Governance Challenges: First Lessons from the WSIS - An Ethical and Social Perspective / Jacques Berleur 225

The Information Society: What Next? / Penny Duquenoy 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780387723808

0387723803

OCLC:

154711918