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<font face="Times New Roman">Dear Max,<br>
<br>
Many thanks; very interesting! And I like many of your comments and
critiques.<br>
<br>
Defining some of the values most applicable to the infosoc would seem a
good step forward; coupled perhaps with examples/illustrations of good
practice of them.<br>
<br>
For the moment, at least, I can't offer more than some of the ideas
from Tunis but let's see how things look in the new year...<br>
<br>
best<br>
Chris<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I have finished ‘Hacker
Ethics’ (by Linus Torval
– the programmer behind linux, Himanen – a finish sociologist, and
Manuel Castells – the scientific leader of my programme). The book
recognises that in the (rich) information societies ‘new ethical
motivations/practices’ are at work. There are some good points made,
there
are some points I had to critique, and overall the book made me think
quite a
bit and start formulate some ideas in what direction a discourse on
post-geographical (cosmopolitan) ethics & values could take.
(Please see attached
rtf)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I was thinking whether I
should send it in this draft and
unpolished format and I decided to do so as it is enough to trigger
some
though. I share these initial personal thoughts on values and ethics in
the
information society, as I would like to ask each participant to either
share
your/your organisations perspective in an independent document or as
critique/comment/amendment of the document you find attached. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">If, as we suggested in
our
contribution to the civil society statement, we stand in for </span></font><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">"The
ethical dimensions are overarching and imperative and not value-added
dimensions" </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">we have to define what
the ethical dimension is? what
are the ethics and values we want to see embraced in the information
society? And
how they stand in relation to the global human rights policy regime.
Put
differently let us define our stake/objective/perspective as values and
ethics
caucus. What is it we stand for? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Please contribute your
perspective –
I volunteer to try to distil ‘our language’ and put it up on the
wiki.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Also if people feel
uncomfortable
using the wiki they can send member profiles to the list and I will put
them up
on the wiki.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Max<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">PS; the other paper
promotes a very
potent concept of the internet as noosphere (as noetic hyper entity)
and even
though I am a bit worried to produce an ethical overload ;-) I send it
as I just
ran into it again – if there is rough consensus I would post this paper
on the wiki in a resources section<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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