Ethics and e-Inclusion: best practices in Europe, Brussels, 26 October 2009

With inclusion in the Information Society growing in importance, the Commission has identified the urgent need to clarify ethical issues in order to respect the rights of users and enable thriving markets to develop (June 2007 Commission Communication on Ageing Well in the Information Society and the November 2007 Communication on e-Inclusion).

The last in a series of meetings devoted to ethical benchmarking in the field of e-Inclusion focused on information sharing and best practice implementation. Leading edge practices were presented to and discussed by a selected audience comprising participants to the previous meetings and experts specifically invited for this meeting. The overall goal of the meeting was to define an ethical benchmark, a set of indicators and implementation plans which include identification of specific opportunities to be exploited in 2010.

Read more about the background of the meeting .

Agenda

Time	Subject	Speaker(s) / Chairs	Presentations
08.45	registration
Morning session		Chair: Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London
09.00	Presentation of the participants
09.10	Welcome and goals of the meeting	Paul Timmers, EC, e-Inclusion unit
09.20	Who are the e-excluded?	Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London
09.40	Good practices in e-inclusion (Presentation of the draft SENIOR report)	David Wright, Trilateral Research & Consulting, London
Four e-inclusion good practices
10.00	MediAbility - Digital storytelling	Mia Ahlgren, Swedish Disability Federation
10.15	Q&A
10.30	E-including all senior citizens	Tore Langemyr Larsen, Seniornett Norge
10.45	Q&A
11.00	coffee break
11.15	Ethical guidance on use of wandering technologies	Donald Lyons, Mental Welfare Commission of Scotland
11.30	Q&A
11.45	Enabling access to the Internet by all children	Triin Kangur, Tiger Leap Foundation, Estonia
12.00	Q&A
12.15	General discussion and introduction to the afternoon’s brainstorming groups.
12.45	Lunch
Afternoon session		Chair: Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London and David Wright, Trilateral Ltd, London
Implementation plans
14.00	Discussion Groups. Each group will be asked to consider the following question: What should a set of ethical guidelines in e-inclusion cover?
15.00	Presentation of Group findings in plenary, followed by a discussion centred on these questions: What constitutes an ethically relevant good practice in e-inclusion and can we draw on it to form an ethical benchmark? How can we improve the sharing and co-ordination of ethically-relevant good practices? How can we assess the impact of ethically-relevant good practices on other practices and/or policies?
15.45	coffee break
16.00	e-Inclusion 2010: perspective on ethics	Paul Timmers, EC, e-Inclusion unit
16.20	Q&A
17.00	Final Remarks and “arrivederci”	Emilio Mordini , Centre for Science, Society & Citizenship, Rome
17.20	adjourn

Last update: 14/05/2012