THIS ISSUE
Computer Ethics: social and ethical aspects of digital revolution
I. De Lotto, Università degli Studi di Pavia
The digital revolution poses complex questions to all of us and especially to teachers of schools of all levels, researchers, professionals, universities, ICT companies, policymakers and our society in general. Monday, November 18, 2013 it was organized by AICA and the Nexa Center a day of study at the Polytechnic of Turin on the theme: “Computer ethics: social and ethical aspects of the digital revolution” that wanted to explore the theme of computer ethics by addressing the questions: what role they can play the academic institutions? How to prepare the new generations of computer scientists to address these ethical dilemmas? What role can they play the professional associations of computer scientists? How the “computer ethics” evolves in the light of the current information revolution? This issue of Mondo Digitale reports what has been illustrated and discussed in the meeting in Turin, in the belief that it has an interest of its readers and hope that the goal of a greater attention of our universities and practitioners in the field of digital technologies for the field of Computer Ethics can be successfully pursued in the short term. It also added some reflections in the direction of a development of a “Code of Ethics” dedicated to those who work in the field of digital technologies on the track of what has been done in other European countries, as indicated by CEPIS, of which AICA is a member, with the aim of eliciting an in-depth discussion on the topic and quickly come to a shared proposal.
