[ecrea] Invitation. 1st Summer School ICTethics. June 2011

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INVITATION
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1st Summer School in ICTethics
Budapest, Hungary
2011, Monday 20 June - Friday 24 June
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Sponsored by the European Commission.

www.ICTethics.eu/summerschool/1/

The Summer School is designed to draw together a group of highly 
motivated researchers from different disciplines working on relevant 
aspects of ICT developments.
The Summer School will provoke critical thinking and mutual learning of 
some of the most crucial issues facing modern society.

For whom?
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Ph.D students & prospective Ph.D students
Young researchers
in engineering, computer science, security, sociology, philosophy, 
ethics, law, new media and any other discipline studying relevant 
aspects of ICT developments.

Up to 20 highly motivated participants
selected on the basis of an Expression of Interest (See How to apply?).
The selection process is now open.

You will go home with
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• an up-to-date overview of ICTs issues and ongoing debates
• a critical understanding of the inter-disciplinary aspects of the 
issues linked to ICT
• experience in playing an active and constructive role in ICT debates
• a deeper understanding of the social aspects of your own research
• a Europe wide network of colleagues.


Topics include
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Internet and networking

• Internet of things, RFID, Ambient Intelligence
• distributed decision making
• social aspects of intensified communication.
• Internet as new democracy or tyranny?


Intelligent machines

• assistive and companion robots
• brain implants
• decision making by machines
• the agenda of human enhancement


Human security and safety

• biometrics, surveillance and tracking
• screening, data mining, sorting of people
• border security and crowd control
• risk society and discrimination


Privacy and Data Protection

• internet services, cloud computing,
• the EU Data Protection Guideline and its revision
• international and national law in EU countries
• the end or beginning of privacy?


Social development of science

• the social construction of technology
• the role of science in social innovation
• small worlds and scale free networks
• ethics as internal dynamics or external limitation


What does it cost?
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The 1st Summer School in ICTethics is sponsored by the European Commission.
(Grant agreement SiS-CT-2009-230368: ICTethics)

The organizers cover local facilities (single hotel room, meals, 
conference material, registration fee) for all participants.
Participants pay their own travel costs to Budapest.

Travel grants are available for all participants, employed as 
researchers in EU-funded projects.
A limited number of travel grants are made available for other participants.

How to apply
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Apply today. The Summer School is limited to 20 participants.

1. Send an e-mail
with your address, name of educational institution, title of (planned) 
research and (if applicable) the name of the EU funded project on which 
you (will) work.

2. Attach an “Expression of Interest” (maximum 500 words)
which explains why this Summer School would be particularly relevant to 
you, and how your participation will enrich the discussion with other 
participants.

3. Ask your research supervisor to send a separate e-mail
confirming your research affiliation and briefly commenting on the 
technical merits of your work and participation.

Applications must be sent by e-mail to
(ICTethics /at/ highlevelcourses.eu)
Re: Summer School June2011
c/o: Prof. Dr. Guido Van Steendam,

Scientific Committee
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ICTethics Consortium: Guido Van Steendam, Stefano Rodotà, Juliet Lodge, 
Paul McCarthy, Gabriella Bonacchi,
Kristrun Gunnarsdottir, Roco Panetta, Pinelopi Troullinou

Summer School Secretariat: The IFB, Craenendonck 15, Leuven, Belgium


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