Ethics on the level of your organisation
How can you apply ethics at the level of your company or organisation? Learn more about it in this course.
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Context
For GAFA (i.e. Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon) it is increasingly important to develop a code of ethics: their engineers and developers are leaving the companies or refusing to work on projects that are not in line with their (ethical) principles. A few of those employees started the Center for Humane Technology, an organization that develops humane technology for the common good and democracy. The trend of rare profiles leaving their employers because of ethical concerns continues. To keep the much sought-after profiles, companies will need to differentiate themselves from other employers in this area.
Learning objective(s)
- Gain insight into how a company can implement ethics in its daily operations;
- Experiment with some brainstorming methods and tools that try to operationalise ethics.
Content
In this course, we look at how you can conduct business in
an ethical and responsible way at the corporate level and what actions
are best taken to do so. A staff member of the Data & Society
Knowledge Center guides you
and your team in drawing up an ethics roadmap for your organisation. In
an ethics roadmap you start from the values of your organisation and
work out a roadmap for the development of technologies, including
timing, stakeholders that need to be involved, and you also indicate
where ethical checks or evaluation moments are necessary. This course is
therefore rather interactive, in which the collaborator will guide you
and your team through brainstorming and discussion moments.
Course of 3 hours, with possibility for extension, in which participants test some methodologies and tools in practice.