Cyber Ethics
This online course addresses the salient ethical questions in relation to security, technologies and artificial intelligence, freedom and responsible citizenship, economics and bullying and protection of the vulnerable, religion, governance and democratic participation. The units include reading and study material of high actuality. Participants will benefit of full and free access to the Globethics.net online library with a plethora of publications in several collection areas of applied ethics. The course is based on the publication: 'Cyber Ethics 4.0: Serving Humanity with Values' written by Christoph Stückelberger and Pavan Duggal, and willl be accompanied by two high profiled and experienced course instructors.
Key learning outcomes
- Recognize the main ethical aspects in cyber environment.
- Apply ethics, core values to all decisions that are made within cyber space.
- Analyze cyber space management approaches and models from the ethical perspective.
- Create new principles of behavior in cyber space that meet global ethical principles and rules.
Job prospects
Successful participants habitually work in public or private professional sectors. Cyber ethics is considered as one of the few key competences decisive for all professional development initiatives and is considered as one of the key assets for employability.
Course contributors
![]() | Christoph Stückelberger Course Designer Prof. Dr, Prof. of Global Ethics in Switzerland, Nigeria, Russia, China and book editor | ![]() | Pavan Duggal Course Designer Honorary Chancellor of Cyberlaw University and book editor | Svetlana Mitereva Module developer |
Course teachers
![]() | Arend van Campen Teacher Manager at TankTerminalTraining - Cybernetician Researcher at Sustenance4all.com and Ieder1samen.nl | | Gilles Bach Teacher Trilingual Consultant in the Data, AI, IoT space - Digital & Core Transformation - Innovation |
Qualification Awarded
Certificate of Completion upon fulfilment of all qualification requirements, in particular the final assignments. A certificate supplement with the indication of the achieved learning outcomes according to the syllabus and the area of the submitted final assignment can be established.
Syllabus
Unit 1 | Cyberspace and the fourth industrial revolution (4.0). Definitions, dimensions |
Unit 2 | Cyber Ethics definition of ethics, specificities and dimensions of cyber ethics, values and virtues. Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users. |
Unit 3 | Cyber Technologies and Ethics I: AI - Artificial Intelligence |
Unit 4 | Cyber Technologies and Ethics II: Fintech, Blockchain |
Unit 5 | Cyber Media: freedom, dignity, citizens responsibility, net neutrality |
Unit 6 | Cyber Economy and Ethics: driving economic powers |
Unit 7 | Cyber Security I: Cyber Crime and Ethics |
Unit 8 | Cyber Security II: Secret Services and Ethics |
Unit 9 | Cyber Peace: Autonomous weapons and ethics |
Unit 10 | Cyber Protection of the vulnerable: Health, Bullying, Children |
Unit 11 | Cyber Religion: Datasm as Religion |
Unit 12 | Cyber Law and Governance and Ethics: Voluntary values and legally binding norms. International conventions |
Unit 13 | Conclusions Cyber Ethics: 10 core values and virtues for Cyber Ethics |
Registration and Fees
Entry Requirements
Specific Accreditation of Prior Learning Arrangements
Qualification Requirements and Regulations
Qualification Level
Access to Further Studies
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