Conference on Technology Ethics 2021 – Tethics 2021
Tethics 2021 was free, hybrid, two-day conference
Conference on Technology Ethics 2021 – Tethics 2021 – was held on 20.-22.10.2021 as a hybrid event at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland.
The proceedings of Tethics 2021 is available through link below.
Organising Committee of Tethics 2021
Jani S. Koskinen
Conference Chair
jasiko@utu.fi
David Kreps
Conference Co-Chair
david.kreps@nuigalway.ie
Minna M. Rantanen
Program Chair
minna.m.rantanen@utu.fi
Anne-Marie Tuikka
Organising Chair
anne-marie.tuikka@utu.fi
Sari Knaapi-Junnila
Communications Chair
sari.knaapi-junnila@utu.fi
Program of Tethics 2021
Wednesday 20th October, 2021
18:00 Welcoming event, meeting at entrance hall of Turku School of Economics
Conference Chair Jani S. Koskinen & Conference Co-Chair David Kreps
Thursday 21st October, 2021
All sessions and Speeches are held in LähiTapiola–lecture hall, Turku School of Economics.
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration for physical participants (Entrance hall of Turku School of Economics) |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome speech (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) Jani Koskinen |
| 9:15-10:45 | Session 1 (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) Chair: Minna Rantanen 9:15-9:45 “Changes in Student Perceptions of Ethics of Learning Analytics due to the Pandemic” by Matias Nevaranta, Katja Lempinen and Erkki Kaila 9:45-10:15 “Teaching of technology IS teaching of ethics. But how?” by Norberto Patrignani and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos 10:15-10:45 “Teaching AI Ethics to Engineering Students: Reflections on Syllabus Design and Teaching Methods” by Lauri Tuovinen and Anna Rohunen |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break (Mercatori) |
| 12:15-13:15 | Keynote speech: “Can we talk? − Field notes and suggestions for interdisciplinary dialogues, ethics, and citizen engagement” by Charles Ess (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) |
| 11:45-12:15 | Lunch break (change because of technical problems with keynote speech) |
| 13:30-15:00 | Session 2 (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) Chair: Anne-Marie Tuikka 13:30-14:00 “Ethical issues of health technology co-creation” by Eva Collanus, Emilia Kielo-Viljamaa, Janne Lahtiranta and Antti Tuomisto 14:00-14:30 “Towards ethical and sustainable technology-supported ageing at home in Finland – KATI programme” by Heidi Anttila, Marketta Niemelä, Minna Anttila, Satu Pekkarinen, Jaana Hallamaa and Jani Koskinen 14:30-15:00 “Towards a Conception of Sociotechnical Pathology” by Otto Sahlgren |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break (Mercatori) |
| 15:30-16:30 | Special session “Presentation of ethical decision frameworks using the IFIP Code of Ethics” by Don Gotterbarn and Kai Kimppa. (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) |
| 19:30 | Instead of formal conference dinner an informal self-paid dinner for in-person attendees at Tårget, Linnankatu 3a, 20100 Turku (https://www.matbar.fi/en/). |
Friday 22nd October, 2021
All sessions and Speeches are held in LähiTapiola–lecture hall, Turku School of Economics.
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee & registration (Mercatori) |
| 10:00 -11:30 | Session 3 (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) Chair: Salla Ponkala 10:00-10:30 “Attitudes towards free-to-play revenue models among Finnish gamers “ By Erno Vanhala, Sami Hyrynsalmi and Jussi Kasurinen 10:30-11:00 “A comparative review of climate mobilization plans” By Janne M. Korhonen and Juho Karvinen 11:00-11:30 “Policies, Principles and Technology: Ethics and Standardization through the Ethic of Systematic Coherence” by Thando Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch break |
| 12:30-13:30 | Keynote speech: “Electronic Frontier Finland: 20 years of digital rights in Finland − Moments of despair and triumph” by Leena Romppainen (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) |
| 13:30-14:00 | Coffee break (Mercatori) |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 4 (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) Chair: Jani Koskinen 14:00-14:30 “Civic Online Reasoning – Achilles Heel of All Analytics” by Gopal Tadepalli 14:30-15:00 “Proposed additions to open source licensing that might ensure the four basic freedoms more securely” by Juhani Naskali |
| 15:00 | Closing remarks (LähiTapiola–lecture hall) Jani Koskinen |
Keynote speakers:
Charles Ess is Professor Emeritus, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. He works across the intersections of philosophy, computing, applied ethics, comparative philosophy and religious studies, and media studies, with emphases on research ethics, Digital Religion, virtue ethics, social robots and AI.
Ess has published extensively on ethical pluralism, culturally-variable ethical norms and communicative preferences in cross-cultural approaches to Information and Computing Ethics, and their applications to everyday digital media technologies; his Digital Media Ethics, 3rd edition, was published in early 2020.
His current work focuses on the meta-theoretical and meta-disciplinary complementarities between ethics and the social sciences, and their implications for applied ethics in ICT design and implementation, including social robots and AI. He serves as an ethics advisor to numerous research projects, including social robotics and AI , e.g., “BioMe: Existential challenges and ethical imperatives of biometric AI in everyday lifeworlds” Project (https://wasp-hs.org/projects/biome-existential-challenges-and-ethical-imperatives-of-biometric-ai-in-everyday-lifeworlds/)
Leena Romppainen has acted as the president of Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) since 2018, and a board member since 2007 and a volunteer before that. She works as IT manager in a company providing managed open source cloud services.
Long-time political and human rights activist, Leena is also known for her work and participation in other political and humanitarian issues, events and organizations. She is an active member in the working group of information policy actors from all parliamentary parties. Additionally, she is also a deputy member of the Vantaa Urban Planning Board of City Planning.
Electronic Frontier Finland was founded in 2001 and celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. As the name shows, creation of the association was inspired by EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Effi covers everything and anything within the scope of digital rights. This has become a rapidly expanding scope as everything in the world goes digital. Effi has become a trusted go-to organisation for comments on legislation drafts in the parliament and for journalists wanting the civil society view on all kinds of digital topics.