Takeaways from ThingsCon Salon Doing Ethics
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On September 6th, the ThingsCon Salon Doing Ethics took place, and Mike de Kreek wrote a short article compiling his main reflections and takeaways from the event. Check out below a few key takeaways and click below to read the full article.
Based on what was shared and discussed, Mike lists, among other conclusions, the following takeaways on how doing ethics is also:
- Being open to revisiting the problem and solution;
- Looking at deployed technologies and guide ethics for possible adjustments;
- Realizing what worldview is behind your thinking ;
- Scrutinizing whether the discretionary space of practitioners is under pressure;
- Being vulnerable as a municipality;
- Helping civil servants to keep practicing their discretionary space;
- Training your ethical muscle;
- Speculating and anticipating on the long-term impacts on society.
In the Human Values for Smarter Cities project, we will further analyse how doing ethics manifests itself in the life cycles of urban technologies.