- Recognize the main ethical aspects of cyber environments
- Apply ethics, and core values to all decisions that are made within cyberspace
- Analyse cyberspace management approaches and models from the ethical perspective
- Create new principles of behaviour in cyberspace that meet global ethical principles and rules
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, citizen 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: Dataism 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
Final Assignment
Arend van Campen
Ethicist and cybernetician. Researcher at www.sustenance4all.com
Gilles Bach
Trilingual Consultant in the Data, AI, IoT space - Digital & Core Transformation - Innovation
Participants whose first language is not English are recommended to have a minimum English language-proficiency of B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The self-assessment grid under this link provides potential participants with an overview in case of unfamiliarity with this framework.
What's included
All learning materials are delivered entirely online. You’ll have access to a course website, which includes:
- a unit overview
- course-specific materials and activities
- audio and video content
- discussion forums
All the interactive materials from our courses are available as downloadable PDF versions for low bandwidth connections.
Computing requirements
You’ll need broadband internet access and a desktop or laptop computer with an up-to-date version of Windows (10 or 11), or macOS (10.15 or higher).
It’s also possible to access our learning management system on a mobile phone, tablet device, however, as you will have to download the moodle application for Android or MacOs.
For the assignments and final assignment, you will be required to use any word processor, such as Microsoft Word, Google Sheets, Pages, and convert it to a PDF, you can download it here.
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