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Title:
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REFLECTIONS UPON ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF IT-PROFESSIONALS |
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Author(s):
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Darek M. Haftor |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-82-9 |
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Editors:
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Gunilla Bradley and Piet Kommers |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Information and Communication Technology, ethics, morality, IT development process |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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35 |
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Last Page:
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42 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This text presents research in progress, investigating normative and particularly moral considerations for the ITprofession.
Recognizing that Information Technology may be both for good and for bad and that it has a unique
capability to instrumentalise human reason, a structural investigation is presented of the normative questions inherent in
the core tasks of the IT-professionals. While conventional ethical contributions, to the IT-profession, focuses mainly on
the very usage of a deployed IT-artefact, proposing a set of rules, or a code of proper conduct, this inquiry switches the
attention to the preceding process of IT-artefact development and management and to the type of moral dilemmas that ITprofessionals
typically face without providing a prescription for the solution. |
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