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The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era
- What does it mean to be human in the computational era?
- How can we experience freedom and plurality in a hyperconnected reality?
- Is the public/private distinction still relevant?
- How can we endorse and attribute responsibilities in a world where artefacts become agents?
It is often thought that philosophy is the luxury of persons who enjoy the beauty of the world of ideas, only. However, answers to philosophical questions like the ones above have concrete and direct implications on the design of policy frameworks.
The deployment and uptake of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has a radical impact on the human condition, insofar as they modify relationships to ourselves, to others and to the world. In order to explore the policy-relevant consequences of the changes brought about by hyperconnectivity, a group of scholars in anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, law, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology initiated a collective thought exercise, the Onlife Initiative.
The group, chaired by Luciano Floridi - Professor of Philosophy, UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire and fellow of St Cross College, Oxford - has chosen to publish the Onlife Manifesto, which reviews the referential frameworks on which policies are built. This document was released on the 8th of February 2013 so as to contribute to the debate on the impacts of the hyperconnected era on public spaces, politics and societal expectations.
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On Jan 24, Luciano Floridi, Charles Ess, Claire Lobet-Maris and myself have joined in a panel at the CPDP conference to present some highlights from the Onlife Initiative.
See below the PPT of :
Luciano: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/onlife-initiative
Charles: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/changing-media-%E2%80%93-selfhood-%E2%80%93-privacy-copyrightchanging-democracy-and-equality
Claire: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/privacy-grey-ecology-alternative-approach-privacy
Nicole: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/onlife-initiative-or-why-philosophy-matters-policy
Digital Futures, IS a foresight
Yiannis Laouris is giving a lecture in Greece about the Onlife Initiative Saturday 16-02-2013, 09:30 – 10:30 at the University of Pireaus. It will also be transmitted via internet.
Digital Futures, IS a foresight
Think Tank
Digital Futures Task Force of the European Commission
Onlife Manifesto
Being Human in an Hyperconnected Era
Εισηγητής
Dr. Yiannis Laouris, Future Worlds Center, Cyprus.
Σάββατο 16-02-2013, 09:30 – 10:30 π.μ., Αίθουσα 336, 3ος όροφος, Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς, Καραολή & Δημητρίου 80, Πειραιάς.
Είναι η πρώτη παρουσίαση στην Ελλάδα και διεξάγεται στα πλαίσια του CSAP Επαγγελματικού Προγράμματος (www.csap.gr).
Τη διάλεξη αυτή μπορείτε να την παρακολουθήσετε live και από το notebook σας από όποιο σημείο βρίσκεσθε: Ελλάδα, Κύπρο και αλλοδαπή.
Περισσσότερες πληροφορίες εδώ
Για την ψηφιακή πρόσκλησή σας στέλνετε email στο csap@hsss.gr
Philippe Aigrain has posted
Philippe Aigrain has posted his reaction to the Onlife Manifesto:
http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=6654&lang=en
Frederico Gobbo has posted
Frederico Gobbo has posted
http://federicogobbo.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/concept-reengineering-needed-for-our-hyperconnected-era/
Panel in CEPE2013
A panel on "The Onlife Initiative: why philosophy matters to policy?" will take place in the CEPE2013 conference "Ambiguous Technologies: Philosophical Issues, Practical Solutions, Human Nature" taking place in Lisbon from July 1st till July 3rd.
Panelists (alphabetical order): Nicole Dewandre, Charles Ess, Luciano Floridi, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Ugo Pagallo, and Judith Simon.
http://www.cepe2013.com/
The HASTAC decennial
The HASTAC decennial conference
The Onlife Manifesto will be presented in the HASTAC decennial conference "The storm of progress: new horizons, new narratives, new codes" in Toronto in April 2013. http://hastac2013.org/
Are Standards compatible with the Manifesto On-Life?
Luís V. Tavares, Full Prof. of Systems and Management, University of Lisbon, IST, has shared these comments:
This Manifesto helps us to understand hyperconnectivity blurring several borders such as between sources and users of information or between structured networks and spontaneous / organic unplanned networks.
These new morphologies are an amazing opportunity for product and technology innovation promoted by networks of firms competing and cooperating as it has been the case in ICT industry during last 2 decades.
Still, new challenges have to be considered by policy makers:
The last question is particularly relevant for ICT public policies and projects conducted by the European Commission and the paradigm of developing common standards has been considered as one of the main goals of such policies.
Quite often, the underlying assumption of such paradigm may be expressed by “Unfortunately, technology markets are fragmented and develop different standards creating many barriers and problems but public polices will define the good standards to be adopted by all markets and the world will be happier”.
Therefore, the first question is: Is this assumption compatible with hyperconnectivity? I believe that the answer tends to be negative because the number of players, the level of complexity and the diversity of markets nutshells are increasing exponentially.
Then, the second question is: how can public policies reduce technological barriers and improve hyperconnectivity?
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the line to be pursued will be based on promoting the development of interoperability nodes (IN) easily accessible to everybody and helping to communicate with everybody rather promoting endless processes to set up standards taking much longer than the changing periods of technological markets.
Comments welcome!
Italian article about Onlife
http://www.chefuturo.it/2013/02/il-progetto-delleuropa-per-restare-umani-nellera-iperconnessa/
Presentation at Namur/8/3/13
On March 8, I presented the Onlife Initiative to a French-speaking audience at "Les rencontres de la communication publique" in Namur. Here is the PPT:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/linitiative-onlif...
Onlife in Rotterdam
http://iotrotterdam.nl/#program
On April 9, I'll be happy to take part in the meeting organized by Martin Pot and present the Onlife Initiaitve.
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