INFORMATION ETHICS IN AFRICAPAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES (2011-2014)

Rafael CapurroInternational Center for Information Ethics (ICIE)

Contribution to the WSIS+10 High-Level Event, Session: C10 Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society - Information Ecologies, Social Transformations, Ethics and

Policy (UNESCO), Geneva, Switzerland, June 12, 2014. 

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Introduction

Since the first African Conference on Information Ethics Information Ethics in Africa that took place in Pretoria (South Africa) on February 5-7, 2007, the field of Information Ethics has been growing dynamically as my former report on Information Ethics in Africa 2007-2010 shows.

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Introduction

In the last three and a half years several conferences have taken place and books have been published based on the passionate work of the staff of the 2012 created African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE) at the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria (South Africa), particularly of his head, Mr Coetzee Bester, as well as of the head of the department, Prof. Theo Bothma. 

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Introduction

The creation of this centre is, indeed, an outstanding event for the promotion of Information Ethics in Africa. The ACEIE has organized a lot of meetings and workshops on ethical issues of ICT not only in South Africa but accross the continent as well.

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Introduction

In this report, In this report, I will refer only to some workshops and conferences co-organized by the Department of Communications of South Africa under the patronage of UNESCO, as well as by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) and the Capurro Fiek Foundation (CFF).

See: http://www.capurro.de/WSIS2014.htmlSee also the former report on IE in Africa (2007-2010)http://www.capurro.de/wsis2010_africa_infoethics.html

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Conferences

The Third African Information Ethics Conference on Ethics and Social Media was held in Pretoria, South Africa, 5-7 September 2012, under the auspices of UNESCO, sponsored by the South African Government, Department of Communications and organized by the University of Pretoria, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the International Center of Information Ethics

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The Capurro-Fiek-Foundation (CFF) together with the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE), Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria had the pleasure to present the second ANIE (Africa Network for Information Ethics) Award to Prof. Stephen Mutula (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) for his outstanding support of information ethics in Africa

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The 14th Information Studies (IS) Annual Conference on Information Ethics in Africa, was organized by the University of Zululand, Department of Information Studies (South Africa), 4-7 September, 2013.

See the proceedings "Information Ethics in Africa" ed. by Denis Ocholla and Janneke Moskert, University of Zululand, 2013, ISBN 978-0-620-45757-6. 

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Africa Network for Information Ethics (ANIE): 4th International Conference on Information Ethics (2014)

The theme: Information Ethics in Africa - cross cutting themes for managing your digital life.

Venue: Metropole Hotel at Plot 51, Windsor in Kampala, Uganda between 2 and 4 July 2014

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Pre-Conference Workshop (2 July 2014): 

will focus on matters related to the development and implementtion of the curriculum to teach Information Ethics in Africa. All universities that form part of the project to implement the proposed curriculum to teach Information Ethics in Africa will be expected to present a formal report on 1) What has been done and achieved up until now and 2) what are you planning to do.

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Conference (3 July 2014)

Information Ethics ColloquiumTopics:IE and Philosophy (R. Capurro)IE and Research (J. Britz, Stephen Mutula)IE and Teaching (Dennis Ocholla)IE and e-Governance (DDG Ms Reneva Tourie and Ms Nozipho Sihlahla)

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Theme discussions (4 July 2014)

Session 1:Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in:- Academic life- Personal life- Business life

Session 2:Cybercrime and identity theft in- Academic life- Personal life- Business life

Session 3:Privacy in Social Media in:- Academic life- Personal life- Business life

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Publications

Concepts in Information Ethics. An introductory workbook.

Eds. Candice le Sueur, Erin Hommes and Coetzee Bester. Pretoria 2013 (ISBN 978-1-920527-84-6).

The book was produced by Hercules Boshoff, Rachel Bothma, Erin Hommes and Candice le Sueur. It was published by the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Information Ethics in Africa: Cross-cutting themes ed. by Dennis Ocholla, Johannes Britz, Rafael Capurro and Coetzee Bester. Published by the African Centre for Information Ethics, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2013 (ISBN 978-1-920527-65-5)

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Innovation. Journal of appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa. Special Issue: Information Ethics

No. 46, June 2013

ed. by Stephen Mutula