Zanzibar Declaration: Webinar 3: Ethical Issues of Autonomous Systems

Intentions of this webinar

This webinar is the third in a series of events that will explore future educational challenges that arise from rapidly emerging technologies impacting societies and communities.

In this webinar, researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers will have their say through a panel discussion and online comment, exchanging experiences and views on respective thematic areas. All participants will have the opportunity to join the discussion via moderated chat and Twitter during the webinar, or comment on issues discussed in a forum afterwards.

The webinar will run for 90 minutes. The webinar will involve a panel of experts, who will be asked to talk for 5-10 minutes.

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The webinar will be supported by a moderator of the panel, and a co-moderator (to summarise and discuss questions or contributions through tweets and chats received during the webinar). You will be able to express your experiences and challenges, related to this theme.

You will be encouraged to outline your context, the kind of activities in which you are involved, and the problems you face. The platform BBB or jit.si will be used for synchronous sessions during the webinar.

The event is free – there is no registration fee.

However, please note that due to likely high interest in this event, online participation will be restricted to the first 100 registered participants.

If you do not manage to register in the first 100, you will still have access to the recording, and will still be able to submit your comments and short contributions.

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Olalekan Akinsande, Data Science Nigeria

Don Gotterbarn

Olalekan Akinsande is a technical delivery lead and data scientist at Data Science Nigeria (DSN). He finished his undergraduate studies at the department of psychology, Obafemi Awolowo University. He got a job as a Business Analyst at a Software Company in Lagos, Nigeria where he developed advance analytics skills by working with real business and operations data. Thereafter, he joined the Data & Analytics team at KPMG where he executed various analytics and automation projects across different industries. He is now working at Data Science Nigeria, a non-profit registered Foundation, whose vision is to develop Nigeria’s AI ecosystem and position the country as a world-class AI skill, research and outsourcing destination.

Don Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University

Don Gotterbarn is Emeritus Professor at East Tennessee State University. He is the Director of the Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute. He has been active as a researcher and participant promoting professional computer standards and ethics for over 25 years and is a leading author of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, which promotes ethics among software engineers. He received the 2005 Outstanding Contribution to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Award for his leadership as both an educator and practitioner, and for promoting the ethical behavior of computing professionals and organizations. He is the chair of the Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Professional Ethics.

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Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde

Andrew McGettrick is Emeritus Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. He has been one of the leading forces behind the Informatics for All initiative, and the co-author of three white papers for the European Commission, covering cyber-security, automation and education. He has served as a Vice-President of the British Computer Society and as a member of the UK's Engineering Council, and is currently the UK representative to the General Assembly of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Professor McGettrick served on ACM's Education Board for more than 15 years. In 2018 he received an international award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Kai Rannenberg, Cyber Security for Europe

Kai Rannenberg is profesor at Goethe University. He has held the Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2002 and a Visiting Professorship at the National Institute for Informatics (Tokyo) since 2012. He has coordinated several leading EU research projects, e.g. the Network of Excellence “Future of Identity in the Information Society” and the Integrated Project “Attribute based Credentials for Trust” (ABC4Trust) and is currently coordinating CyberSec4Europe. His research interests include: Mobile and embedded systems and multilateral security; Privacy and identity management; Communication infrastructures and devices; and Security and privacy standardisation, evaluation, and certification.

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Lin Zhang, Geneva Centre for Autism in Toronto

Lin Zhang is manager of Web Design / E-Learning at the Geneva Centre for Autism in Toronto. She earned the Ph.D. in the Doctoral Programme on E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning – Lancaster University. Her interest is in the online games area and how this affects data collection and access as an autonomous system.

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Outcomes of Webinar 3

The benefit for society is to build collaboratively and make visible a wide landscape of the consequences of this technological development across a wide variety of social environments. Such a landscape can then be used as a map for different actors to think about their policy, to strategically orient their practices or research perspectives, enabling those in specific contextual situations to:

- Gain new educational, societal, theoretical, and technical insights about the impact of computer networks and communication on the economic and ecological transformations of society
- Consider analytical methods and tools being developed through the impact of computer networks and communication on the economic and ecological transformations of society, and their applications in different educational curricula
- Reflect on basic indispensable scientific foundations of those methods and tools, e.g. concerning important understandings about networks and communication systems
- Participate in the design of specific elements of the ZD through synchronous contributions during the webinar (chat, tweets), asynchronous follow-up discussion (forums), or short contributions to the ZD matrix
- Share insights into various practical contexts and examples of implementation in different countries
- Build up networks of researchers, practitioners, decision-makers to promote joint work on thematic projects
- Develop a (co-operative) publication for a follow-up conference

What the webinar involves

Prior to the webinar, basic literature will be distributed as a preparation and stimulus (1-2 papers), suggested further reading, and the relevant extract from the matrix matching the topic of the webinar.

Event organisers

Co-moderator: Prof Cathy Lewin
Co-moderator: Prof Johannes Magenheim
Technical organisation: Prof Javier Osorio
Organisational planning: Dr Christophe Reffay
Organisational support: Prof Don Passey