Ethical Competence for Decision Makers and Organizations - Department of Information Technology

The project started in fall of 2007. Our work is building on the assumption that ethical competence is defined by well-functioning ethical mental abilities, such as problem solving and decision making, and by group processes, such as organizational structures and procedures, independent of normative aspects. The project will result in tools and methods to promote and support ethical competence:

The results from the project will contribute to the development of ethics as a subject, but also, through the ethical tools, to the practical applicability of ethics for decision makers in organizations and corporations.

Members

Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
Mikael Laaksoharju
Agata Kostrzewa (Until 2010)
Norberto Patrignani
Anders Persson
Ryoko Asai

Handelsbanken Research Fundings

The ETHCOMP project - ETHical COMPetence for decision makers and organizations - has in its entirety 2007-2010, funded by Handelsbanken Research Fundings: Jan Wallanders & Tom Hedelius Stiftelse and Tore Browaldhs Stiftelse. For more information, visit www.forskningsstiftelserna.handelsbanken.se (in swedish).

Publications

Truth and reality in the digital lifeworld: Departure from reductionism. Makoto Nakada, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, and Ryoko Asai. In Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures, pp 72-92, Routledge, London, 2024. (DOI).
Artificial intelligence and the sustainability of thinking: How AI may destroy us, or help us. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures, pp 19-30, Routledge, London, 2024. (DOI).
Care Robots and Humanity: How Can We Cope with The Indeterminacy and Ambiguity of Robot-Human Relationships?. Ryoko Asai, Makoto Nakada, and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Tethics 2023: Proceedings of the Conference on Technology Ethics 2023, volume Vol-3582 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp 1-10, CEUR-WS.org, 2023. (Proceedings, External link).
The need for multiple approaches for ethics in technology education. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Effectiveness of ICT ethics: How do we help solve ethical problems in the field of ICT?, pp 8-15, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2022. (External link).
Precision medicine and artificial intelligence: Ethical considerations about human identity. Aristidis Moustakas and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2022. (Keynote speakers).
AI???? (AI and Us). Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In ?????? (Introduction to Information Ethics): ICT????????????????? (Pursuing Well-being in the ICT Society), pp 248-253, Minerva Shobo, 2021. (Publisher's information about the collection).
Teaching of technology IS teaching of ethics. But how?. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Tethics 2021, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, University of Turku, Turku, 2021. (External link).
Computer ethics and computer professionals. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Moving technology ethics at the forefront of society, organisations and governments, pp 359-365, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 2021. (External link, External link, External link).
Robots and AI Artifacts in Plural Perspective(s) of Japan and the West: The Cultural–Ethical Traditions Behind People’s Views on Robots and AI Artifacts in the Information Era. Makoto Nakada, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, and Ryoko Asai. In The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, volume 15, number 1, pp 143-168, Springer, 2021. (DOI).
What are the ingredients for an ethics education for computer scientists?. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Societal Challenges in the Smart Society, pp 107-109, Logroño, Spain, 2020. (External link).
The importance of language in teaching and learning ethics. Ingrid Björk and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2019. (External link).
Information and Communication Technology for ethical leadership in business. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Journal of Information and Management, volume 38, number 4, pp 6-11, Japan Society for Information and Management, Tokyo, 2019. (External link).
Linguistic aspects in teaching and learning ethical skills. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2018.
Making ethical competence possible. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2018.
AI and philosophizing. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2018.
AI as gadfly. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Wabi-Sabi: Imperfection, incompleteness and impermanence in Organisational Life, pp 150-150, 2018. (External link, Book of abstracts).
Language and teaching ethics. Ingrid Björk and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2018. (External link).
Philosophy as the Road to Good ICT. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Ryoko Asai. In This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?, volume 537 of IFIP AICT, pp 293-298, Springer, 2018. (DOI).
On the Complex Relationship Between ICT Systems and the Planet. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In This Changes Everything –ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?, volume 537 of IFIP AICT, pp 181-187, Springer, 2018. (DOI, fulltext:preprint).
Ethical leadership in business: The significance of Information and Communication Technology. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Information and Management: Connect Things, Humans, Management, pp 1-4, Japan Society for Information and Management, Tokyo, 2017. (External link).
On the Difficult Task of Teaching Computer Ethics to Engineers. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In ORBIT Journal, volume 1, number 1, 2017. (DOI, Fulltext, fulltext:print).
Balancing between the conflicting interests of different stakeholders in research. Ryoko Asai and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In European Business Ethics Network: Research, Deree, American College of Greece College, Athens, 2017. (External link).
Education for leaders’ ethical competence. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In European Business Ethics Network: Research, Deree, American College of Greece College, Athens, 2017. (External link).
Assessing the ethical competence of organizations. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Agata Kostrzewa, and Karin Berg. In EBEN Annual Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2017. (External link).
How to Make Decisions with Algorithms: Ethical Decision-Making Using Algorithms within Predictive Analytics. Anders Persson and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In CEPE/Ethicomp 2017: ElectronicCollection, pp 1-13, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, 2017. (CEPE/Ethicomp 2017, fulltext).
On the Difficult Task of TeachingComputer Ethics to Engineers. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In CEPE/Ethicomp 2017: Electronic Collection, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, 2017. (External link).
ICT as ethical competence. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Research, Ethics and Societal Impact: Responsible research: How to deal with animals and ICT in science - An ethical approach, pp 12-12, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 2017. (External link).
Snowden’s revelations and the attitudes of students at Swedish universities. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Ryoko Asai, Andrew A. Adams, and Kiyoshi Murata. In Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 15, number 3, pp 247-264, 2017. (DOI).
Robots as companions in feelings and discussions. Ryoko Asai and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Retfærdighed – Justice, Robophilosophy, pp 42-42, Copenhagen, 2017. (External link).
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Etikutbildning för ingenjörer: Övningar, verktyg, metoder. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Thomas Lennerfors, Mikael Laaksoharju, Ryoko Asai, and Ingrid Björk. In 5:e utvecklingskonferensen för Sveriges Ingenjörsutbildningar, pp 30-31, Uppsala universitet, 2015. (External link, Proceedings).
Etik och medicinteknik. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Mikael Laaksoharju. In Medicinteknikdagarna 2015, pp 94-94, Svensk Förening för Medicinsk Teknik och Fysik (MTF), Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, 2015. (External link, Proceedings).
Technology as Mask. Ryoko Asai. In , 2015.
Between Insanity and Love. Ryoko Asai. In Computers & Society: The Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society Special Issue on 20 Years of ETHICOMP, pp 154-158, 2015. (External link).
The holding function of robots in highly technological society. Ryoko Asai and Kiyoshi Murata. In Proceedings of Japan Society for Infomation and Management 70th Annual Conference, pp 65-68, 2015.
Cloud Computing: The Ultimate Step Towards the Virtual Enterprise?. Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Computers & Society: The Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society Special Issue on 20 Years of ETHICOMP, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Newsletter, pp 68-72, ACM Digital Library, 2015. (DOI, External link, External link, External link, External link).
Ethical Competence and Social Responsibility in Scientific Research using ICT Tools. Ryoko Asai and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In Computers & Society: The Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society Special Issue on 20 Years of ETHICOMP, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Newsletter, pp 345-347, ACM Digital Library, 2015. (DOI, External link, External link, External link, External link).
Judging the complexity of privacy, openness and loyalty issues. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Ryoko Asai. In Computers & Society: The Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society Special Issue on 20 Years of ETHICOMP, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Newsletter, pp 416-419, ACM Digital Library, 2015. (DOI, External link, External link, External link, External link).
Philosophy and philosophology. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos. In , 2015. (External link).
How ethical robots process information, communicate and act. Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Ingrid Björk. In 1st TRANSOR Workshop: Methodological Problems of Social Robotics, 2015. (External link).