Updates

Ethics, Technology and Society at ETH Zurich

Regina Surber and Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics, Technology and Society (ZHET) were delighted to  participate in two inaugural events on  Digital Democracy and Ethics  ...

Responsibly mining the “New Gold”

Digital Data is the gold of the 21st century. It is  nearly impossible to browse a website, write an email, or use a mobile app without generating copious amounts of  ...

The nature and nurture of disinformation

For us the land is matrix and destroyer, Resentful, darkly known By sunset omens, low words heard in branches. — Poem in the Matukituki Valley, James K. Baxter “In the woods  ...

Addressing the Infodemic

Meaningful policymaking to fight the swelling seed, spread and supremacy of misinformation benefits from data and evidence alive to socio-political realities. A new report from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Classification Office  ...

Le Temps reports on Swiss Digital Charter

Le Temps, 29 juin 2021 La Suisse et la cybersécurité: rapports, débats, action! OPINION. L’arrivée prochaine de l’ambassadeur Alexandre Fasel, qui sera le principal responsable des questions de cybersécurité, annonce  ...

Making Facebook’s New Human Rights Policy Real

This article by Special Advisor at ICT4Peace and ZHET, Sanjana Hattotuwa, was originally published on the website of Institute for Human Rights and Business. ### The world’s biggest social media  ...

Ethische Probleme Tödlicher Autonomer Waffensysteme

Ethische Probleme Tödlicher Autonomer Waffensysteme Von Regina Surber Tödliche Autonome Waffensysteme (LAWS, aus dem Englischen ‘Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems’) sind eine neuartige Kategorie von Waffen, die, einmal aktiviert, ohne menschliche  ...

Is Social Media Driving Instability?

Is Social Media Driving Instability? By Sanjana Hattotuwa. Posted on 12 October 2020 on the New Zealand Classification Office official website. What could I do to destabilise New Zealand? Quite  ...

Groupthink: Are we collectively ruining democracy?

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by Transparency International New Zealand to lead a conversation on Groupthink as part of the Leadership Week of Victoria University,  ...

Regina Surber on Corona, Technology and Human Rights

Regina Surber, Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) delivered the keynote speech at the  #SwissCognitive and @AICapitalCO virtual conference entitled “Corona, Technology and Human Rights”. Regina provided  ...

ZHET working with UN on Artificial Intelligence Governance

As part of the UN Secretary General’s Digital Cooperation Recommendations Follow-Up Process, to which ICT4Peace and ZHET have contributed the following Reflections and Recommendations , ICT4Peace has been invited to participate  ...

The cost of digital peace: Reflections for 2019

2018 served to acutely remind us of the essential fragility of that initial idea the pioneers of the Internet had around bringing humanity together by connecting them. From the start  ...

Human rights: 70 Years On

ICTs and Human Rights Chaired by a woman, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Committee at the United Nations tasked with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) finished its work in  ...

ICTPeace at Technonomy 2018: Can Facebook recover?

Representing ICT4Peace, Sanjana Hattotuwa participated in a panel discussion at Techonomy 2018 held in Half Moon Bay, San Francisco, on 13th November 2018. Titled ‘Can Facebook recover’, the panel’s description  ...

Big Data, Health Law and Bioethics

The Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology ZHET) and ICT4Peace welcome the important and timely publication by the Harvard Berkman Klein Center  ‘Big Data, Health Law and Bioethics’, co-edited by  ...

Autonomous technology: The danger beyond killer robots

In February 2018, Regina Surber released a commentary ‘Autonome Technologie ist nicht nur in Kriegsrobotern riskant’ (eng.: Autonomous technology: the danger beyond killer robots), which was published in the Neue  ...