Conferences

ETHICOMP organised by the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility bills itself as 'The international conference on the social and ethical impacts of information and communication technologies'. The ETHICOMP conferences webpages have extended abstracts of recent years' papers.

• ETHICOMP 2010 - Tarragona, Spain, 14-16 April
• ETHICOMP 2008 - Mantua, Italy, 24-26 September
• ETHICOMP 2007 - Tokyo, Japan, 27-29 March.
• ETHICOMP 2005 - Linköping, Sweden, 12-15 September
• ETHICOMP 2004 - Syros, Greece, 14-16 April
• ETHICOMP 2002 - Lisbon, Portugal, 13-15 November
• ETHICOMP 2001 - Gdansk, Poland,18-20 June
• ETHICOMP 1999 - Rome, 6-8 October
• ETHICOMP 1998 - Erasmus University, Netherlands, 25-27 March
• ETHICOMP 1996 - Madrid, Spain, 6-8 November
• ETHICOMP 1995 - Leicester, UK, 28-30 March

INFOethics - Organised by the Information and Informatics Division of UNESCO, the INFOethics Congresses bring together a wide range of experts and interested parties to discuss ethical, legal and societal aspects of the so-called Information Society. Conference papers and proceedings are available for the 1998 and 2000 congresses:

• INFOethics 2000 - 13-15 November, Paris - Right to universal access to information in the 21st century
• INFOethics 1998 - 1-3 November, Monaco - Ethical, legal and societal challenges of cyberspace
• INFOethics 1997 - 10-12 March, Monaco - First international congress on ethical, legal and societal aspects of digital information

UNESCO also organises regional conferences on Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society - The UNESCO Latino-American meeting took place in Santo Domingo, 6-9 December, 2006, and the UNESCO African one was organized in Pretoria, 5-7 February, 2007 (see African Conference on Information Ethics below). The European regional meeting was held in Strasbourg, 13-14 September 2007.

Implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Action Lines gives rise to a number of consultation meetings on Action Line C10 ('Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society') facilitated by UNESCO:

First consultation meeting, 17 October 2006, UNESCO, Paris
Second consultation meeting, 25 May 2007, ITU, Geneva

International ICIE Symposium 2004, 4-6 October, Karlsruhe - Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective. Organised by the International Center for Information Ethics. Proceedings of this first ICIE Symposium are published in International Review of Information Ethics vol. 2. If you are curious to know what a conference on information ethics looks like, ICIE have published a small gallery of photographs.

International Intelligence Ethics Association, 22-23 February 2008 - Third International Conference on Ethics in the Intelligence Community - Baltimore, USA.

Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) conference 

• CEPE2007 - San Diego, USA
• CEPE2005 - Enschede, Netherlands
• CEPE2003 - Chestnut Hill, USA
  

European Computing and Philosophy Conference

• ECAP 2007 - 21-23 June, Enschede, Netherlands
• ECAP 2006 - 22-24 June, Trondheim, Norway
• ECAP 2005 - 2-4 June, Västerås, Sweden
• ECAP 2004 - 3-5 June, Pavia, Italy

African Conference on Information Ethics - 5-7 February 2007, Pretoria, South Africa - Ethical Challenges in the Information Age. Organised by the University of Pretoria, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and ICIE.

OpenNet Initiative - The Future of Free Expression on the Internet conference, 18 May 2007, Oxford, UK. The first public conference of the OpenNet Initiative to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide. Hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute.