Data Ethics book launched at WSIS Forum 2023

On 13 March 2023, Globethics hosted a panel as part of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)'s annual World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS), entitled Data Ethics and the Ethics of Digital and Emerging Technologies – Building Trust, Serving Humanity. During the session, the Globethics Publication Data Ethics: Building Trust. How Digital Technologies Can Serve Humanity was launched.

The panel convened Ignace Haaz (Dr), Globethics Managing Editor; Christoph Stückelberger (Dr Dr h.c.), Globethics President and Founder, author and co-editor of Data Ethics: Building Trust; Pavan Duggal (Dr), President of Cyberlaws.net and co-editor of the Data Ethics publication; Greta Balliu (Dr), doctor of economics and international cooperation; Erin Green, expert in the social impact of AI and related technologies, and Gilles Bach, strategist and consultant in the big data, AI, IoT space.

Through this global multistakeholder platform, the panelists took the opportunity for information exchange, knowledge creation, and sharing of best practices around data ethics. In his remarks, Christoph Stückelberger reflected on his and Globethics' 20-year mission to increase access to information in developing countries in the area of ethics, including with the world's leading ethics library and Globethics Publications.

The Globethics panel at the WSIS Forum 2023 and the publication launched at the session were featured in the Journal of Ethics in Higher Education Issue 2(2023) in an article by Erin Green and Ignace Haaz: Review of Data Ethics - A report based on the WSIS 2023 launch.

In their words, Geneva was a significant place for the launch of this publication, not only as a hub of the information society, but also as the new place where global dialogue on values can take place, made possible through the internet and digital communications.

The book covers ethical reflections and recommendations in eight dimensions: a) Values, Trust and Law, b) AI, Robots and Humans, c) Health and Neuroscience, d) Religions for Digital Justice, e) Farming, Business, Finance, f) Security, War, Peace, g) Data Governance, Geopolitics, h) Media, Education, Communication. Read it for free or order your print copy here: Data Ethics: Building Trust.