Ethics and e-Inclusion: best practices in Europe, Brussels, 6 April 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).

After an overview of the main definitions of best practices in the area of ethics of eInclusion carried out in the first meeting (March 16, 2009), this second expert meeting aimed to deepen the conversation and identify concrete examples of good practices, also in order to establish paradigms, which eventually allow to capture relevant trends in eInclusion, and set ethical guidelines through a bottom up process.

The second meeting was then based on short introductions, which would enlighten the main criteria identified in the first meeting, followed by a structured conversation among participants.

Read more about the background of the meeting .

Agenda

Time	Subject	Speaker(s) / Chairs
09.00	registration
Morning session		Chair: Silvia Bojinova, EC, e-Inclusion unit Rapporteur: David Wright, Trilateral Ltd, London
09.30	Welcome and roll call of meeting participants
09.40	Goals of the meeting	Silvia Bojinova, EC, e-Inclusion unit
09.50	An overview of the first meeting	David Wright, Trilateral Ltd, London
RELEVANT METRICS
10.00	Criteria setting	Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London
10.15	Discussion on relevant metrics determining whether a practice is a good one or not
	effectiveness significance transparency efficiency reliability replicability and adaptability optimality acceptability legitimacy equity learnability	All participants led by Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London
12.45	Summary of the discussion	Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London
13.00	Lunch
CHALLENGES
14.00	Main achievements of the morning session	Silvia Bojinova, EC, e-Inclusion unit
14.15	Other criteria to be considered in good practice capture
	Brainstorming exercise	All participants led by Emilio Mordini , Centre for Science, Society & Citizenship, Rome
15.15	Final criteria to be adopted
	Criteria setting exercise	All participants led by Kush Wadhwa, GSI, London
16.15	Final Remarks and next meeting	Silvia Bojinova, EC, e-Inclusion unit
16.30	adjourn

Last update: 14/05/2012