Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications (ETICA) 2010


Topic:
The Future as we see it: Emerging ICTs and resulting ethical issues


Call for papers to the 1st ETICA International Conference at Rovira and Virgili 
University, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain on 13 April 2010.

ETICA is a European research project funded under the Science in Society 7th 
Framework (FP7) programme. It will run from April 2009 to May 2011. The main aim 
of the project is:

.	to explore which technologies are likely to be dominant in the medium
 	term future (10 to 15 years)
.	to investigate ethical issues they are likely to raise and
.	to then provide recommendations for governance arrangements suitable to
 	address such issues.

As part of the ETICA project, there will be two international conferences. The 
first one at approximately the half-way point will take place in spring 2010. It 
will be held in conjunction with the ETHICOMP 2010 conference which takes place 
on Wednesday 14th April to Friday 16th April 2010. The ETICA conference will be 
a 1-day event which will take place on Tuesday 13th April 2010, a day before the 
ETHICOMP conference.

The prospect of new and emerging technologies is an exciting one, not least 
because of the potential developments and improvements they promise to bring to 
our lives.  Enhanced better health, the allure of new forms of friendships, the 
fight against crime, the potential for better and more accessible education, an 
improved environment as a result of new technologies; all give a sense of 
excitement and optimism of what might be. However, this sense of what might be 
often overshadows the need to critically examine the ethical issues that may 
result. To explore these issues and because ethical issues of emerging 
technologies are global and cross-cultural, ETICA is inviting position papers 
from international scholars with an interest in emerging technologies and their 
ethical relevance to submit position papers of 3500 words. Papers may cover 
themes that broadly address but are not limited to the following topics:

Trends in emerging technologies
.	Current and future technologies
.	Use of identified emerging technologies
.	Anticipated impact of emerging technologies
.	Application areas of emerging technologies
.	The problem of identifying future developments


Potential ethical issues
.	Ethical concerns of emerging technologies
.	Ways of addressing future ethical issues
.	Values, ethics and morality under conditions of uncertainty

Papers submitted must describe original work that has not been submitted to 
another conference or under consideration for journal publication. Submitted 
papers will be considered for a special issue of Journal of Information, 
Communication & Ethics in Society (www.emeraldinsight.com/jices.htm).

The conference will encourage a more inclusive and discursive approach in its 
proceedings.  In order to ensure stimulating debate, the conference will be run 
using a format that deviates slightly from that used in most academic 
conferences. Papers will be made available to all participants prior to the 
conference and participants will be asked to read them in advance. The papers 
will not be presented but they will then be discussed in small groups of peers 
who will have read them.



How to submit

Papers must be written in English and must include the title, authors. names and 
affiliations, mailing addresses including email, telephone numbers and a 
statement of commitment that one of the authors will present the paper at the 
conference. For instructions on how to submit papers please visit the conference 
website at:
http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk/webapps/conf/index.php/ETICA/E2010



Key Dates

1 June 2009 . Call for papers

31 July 2009 . Submission of full 3500 word position papers

28 November 2009 . Authors informed of decision on full papers

13 April 2010 . ETICA conference 2010, Rovira and Virgili University, Tarragona, 
Spain

25 June 2010 - Re-submission of revised 3500 word papers for special issue in 
Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society

17 September 2010 . Feedback to Authors

29 October 2010 . Final submission of papers

12 November final decision on papers to either accept or reject




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Kutoma Jacqueline Wakunuma

Research Fellow

Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications (ETICA) Project

De Montfort University

Faculty of Technology

Leicester  - United Kingdom

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