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ANIE
IE Research Workshop
Objectives towards a Curriculum
Development
University of Pretoria
July 4-5, 2011
Rafael Capurro
International Center for
Information Ethics
Overview
 Introduction
 Interdisciplinary
thinking
 African context and framework
 Multicultural framework
 Content positioning
 Focus of content
 Curriculum development
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Introduction
 Information
ethics (IE) can be
understood as a descriptive and
emancipatory discipline dealing with
the study of the changes in the
relationship between human beings
and the world due particularly to
digital information and
communication technology (ICT).
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Introduction
 As
a descriptive theory IE explores
the power structures influencing
informational and communicational
attitudes and traditions in different
cultures and epochs.
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 As
an emancipatory theory IE
develops criticisms of moral, i.e., lifeworld attitudes and traditions in the
information and communication field
at an individual and collective level.
It includes normative aspects.
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 IE
explores and evaluates:
– the development of moral, i.e., lifeworld values in the information and
communication field,
– the creation of new power structures in
the information and communication
field,
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– information and communication myths,
– hidden contradictions and
intentionalities in information and
communication theories and practices,
– the development of ethical conflicts in
the information and communication
field.
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Interdisciplinary Thinking
 As
a philosophic discipline, IE takes a
holistic view on the phenomenon of
human communication as based on
the relationship between man and
world.
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Interdisciplinary Thinking
 This
holistic view provides a ground
for the integration of other disciplines
dealing with information and
communicaton such as anthropology,
sociology, political science,
information studies, media studies,
computer science, social informatics,
law and the liberal arts.
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African Context and Framework
 IE
in Africa as a young academic
field: conferences since 2007, ANIE,
Africa Reader, Tshwane Declaration.
 IE in Africa within its long and rich
past of oral and written traditions
with complex processes of cultural
hybridization.
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African Context and Framework
 General
goals for IE teaching and
research in Africa:
– to enrich African identities by retrieving
and re-creating African information and
communication traditions, their
principles and values, within the
framework of ICT,
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African Context and Framework
– to develop alternatives for creating
different forms of information societies
in Africa, giving orientation to policy
makers, community leaders, African
institutions and, last but not least, to
Africans in their everyday lives.
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Multicultural Framework
 Africa
is a multicultural continent
that reflects uniquely the global
challenges arising from ICT.
 IE can become an academic space
for intercultural dialogue on
informational and communicational
norms and values within Africa as
well in a global context.
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Content positioning
 Foundational
issues: the ongoing IE
debate in Africa: theories, key
concepts, issues
 Assembling an Africa IE
 Intercultural IE (IEE) in Africa
 National, regional and global Africa
IE agendas and institutions
 IE and information policies
 IE and ICT for development
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Focus of content
Information and Communication Rights
 Digital divide (marginalisation & exclusion)
 Privacy & secrecy
 Safety & security
 ICT for development
 Knowledge sharing & copyright
 Indigenous Knowledge
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Focus of content
 Social
networks
 Gender issues
 Health issues
 E-democracy and e-participation
 Electronic waste
 Empowering education institutions
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Curriculum development
A thematic structure including
theories, key issues, methodology,
readings and pedagogical as well as
professional goals depend on
whether IE is placed within a
department (discipline) or as an
interdeparmental (interdisciplinary)
field.
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