PROJECT OF THE WEEK - VIRT-EU
VIRT-EU is Values and Ethics in Responsible Technology in Europe – a European project funded by the Horizon 2020 program.
The networked future promises new relationships between people and artifacts, the private and the public, the individual and the collective. The increased networking capabilities of pervasive technologies mean that of personal data are being produced, analyzed, monetized and connected to other data streams in ways that hold both enormous potential and pose profound challenges for European society.
VIRT-EU addresses recent policy concerns, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation, reflects mounting public concerns around emerging data practices, RRI, data ethics and privacy, at the point of design through researching and intervening upon the development cultures and ethics of the next-generation IoT innovators.
Leveraging state of the art collaborative SSH and ICT methodological innovations, VIRT-EU will analyze and map the ethical practices of European hardware and software entrepreneurs, maker and hacker spaces, and community innovators.
VIRT-EU goals are (1) understand how IoT innovators enact ethics as they design future devices and (2) to generate a new framework for Privacy, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment (PESIA), which will proactively position ethical self-assessments in the development process of IoT technologies.
These tools, informed by legal approaches, data mining, quantitative and qualitative social science and design research serve to secure a place for societal concerns in the generation of new technologies, engaging societal stakeholders in ensuring a digital future which is populated by innovative devices and services that are explicitly aligned with, and conscious of, the ethical and social values held by EU citizens.
Read more details on the VIRT-EU dedicated page and find out more about the latest update of this project
Stay tuned as VIRT-EU will showcase some of their project results and services which will be available soon in the Cyberwatching Marketplace.
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