The intended learning objectives (ILOs) are:
ILO1: Make argumentations on the interrelation between Ethics and ICT and get familiar with methods for systematic elicitation and mitigation of ethical conflicts
ILO2: Reflect on how ICT influences and is influenced by values at the individual, professional, organizational, economic, and societal levels
ILO3: Analyze human values using the Q-Sort method, in the context of Responsible ICT
ILO4: Analyze life-cycle, enabling and structural impacts of ICT and the social, economic and environmental trade-offs among them
ILO5: Analyze papers and projects by positioning them within the landscape of Responsible ICT and assessing their sustainability maturity
ILO6: Conduct research on Responsible ICT themes, as well as write and review papers that report on the results
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Responsible ICT focuses on the social and environmental, positive and negative impacts of ICT, and introduces ethical reflections on all the stages of the ICT lifecycle. Humanity is facing outstanding challenges in ensuring world-wide peace, managing global exchange of people and goods without health risks, reducing poverty while increasing equity and inclusion, minimizing climate change, and redesigning the socio-economic system so it contributes to good life for all within planetary boundaries.
ICT is often included as a key ingredient in recipes proposed as solutions to the challenges. The course covers theories and skills that will allow students to deepen into the interrelation between ICT, society and the natural environment to critically assess the roles ICT plays both at the organizational and systemic levels, its capability to be part of the solution, and also the trade-offs it entails..
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