Category Archives: information ethics

Discussion about ethical issues associated with information management and use.

Untethered on the Camino

Tweet As someone who has been tethered to computers via the Net for many years doing my online teaching and consulting work, I have come to realize the need to create a balance between the connected self and disconnected self. … Continue reading

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Moving from “opt-out” to “opt-in” culture

Tweet “We’re here for consumers. Why, without them, we’d have nobody whose privacy we can invade so that we can exploit them to advertisers.” Comment about Google under user comments on: http://www.winrumors.com/google-claims-microsoft-and-apple-are-partners-in-a-patent-war-against-android/ Teaching a course on Ethics in Information Technology … Continue reading

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Collaborative reasoning with a social strategy

Tweet In my previous posts on the value of mental and physical models, I suggested that it is the dialog that we create between these two types of reasoning that helps us tackle the discovery of what is novel and … Continue reading

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Revolution 2.0 – Social Media for Social Change

Tweet On January 25, 2011, a social movement in Egypt led by young protesters moved to the streets and by February 11, a despotic regime fell and they continued their long journey on a path to securing human rights, social … Continue reading

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#jan25

Tweet January 25 is an important day in Egypt’s history. On that date in 1952, when British troops stormed a police station where Egyptian police officers acting as commandos were holed up, a Free Officer Movement led to a revolt … Continue reading

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information and ethics: a conundrum?

Tweet As the first entry in this discussion about ethical issues associated with information management and use, I invite your answers to the question posed in the title of this post. Webster’s dictionary defines conundrum as “1 : a riddle … Continue reading

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