This course aims to explore digitalization of society from the standpoint of a socially responsible digital leadership. It develops a set of concepts, frameworks, and tools to help students understand how to make decisions related to digitalization that establish a meaningful balance between the enabling and constraining roles of ICT.
The following areas of ”digital ethics” will be explored in the course:
- Security (identification mechanisms, encryption, backups, hacking, etc.)
- Cybercrime (robbery, identity theft, extortion, etc.)
- Privacy (big data, etc.)
- Social interaction (social technology, online communication, etc.)
- Governance (rules, regulations, net neutrality, etc.)
- Free will (how to use technology, algorithmic regulation, ethics of algorithms, etc.)
- Society and economy (the digital revolution, smart machines eliminating jobs, autonomous technologies, etc.)
The following areas of digitalization from a societal perspective will be explored in the course:
- Connections (Mobile Technology, Cloud Computing, the Internet of Everything, etc.)
- Information (Big Data, Transparency, the Generation and Sharing of Information, etc.)
- Interactions (Social Technology, Online Communities, Digital Platforms, Crowdsourcing, etc.)
- Intelligence (Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Man-Machine Symbiosis, etc.)
The course employs a combination of case discussions and lectures.