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 /

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Goujon, Philippe (Editor), Lavelle, Sylvian (Editor), Duquenoy, Penny (Editor), Kimppa, Kai (Editor), Laurent, Véronique (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
Series:IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 233
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Technology and Democracy: Views on The is
  • to part I
  • Democracy, Technology, and Information Societies
  • Democracy, innovation, and the information society
  • The Information/Knowledge society as Risk Society : Assessing and Enforcing IT safety and security standards for IT systems : about responsibility of experts and governments
  • Ethics and Democracy Into The ICT
  • to part II
  • From the Ethics of Technology to the Ethics of Knowledge Assessment
  • Deliberative democracy : from Rational Discourse to Public Debate
  • ICT and Value Sensitive Design
  • Governance of is: From Economic Regulation To A New Social Contract
  • to part III
  • Social Consequence of Information and Communication, Technologies and the European Union : Policy Links
  • Economy, Industry, Innovation and Technical Democracy
  • When Economics meets Ethics : the Governance of Economic Activities in the Information Society
  • The Institutional Dynamics of Sharing Biological Information : Towards Reflexive Governance of the Information Society
  • The Internet: New principles of political right, new social contract
  • Applied issues: health, profession and education
  • to part IV
  • Which Major Legal Concerns in future e-Health?
  • Embedding Professional Issues within University Degree Courses
  • IT, Ethics and Education : Teaching the Teachers (and their Pupils)
  • For an ethical and democratic governance of the is: lessons from WSIS
  • to part V
  • Internet Governance : Some Thoughts after the two WSIS
  • Governance Challenges: First Lessons from the WSIS — An Ethical and Social Perspective
  • General Conclusion
  • The Information Society : What Next?.