BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Brookings Institution, Computer Ethics, Short Code

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: Bo Yu

Document Summary

The computer ethics institute (cei) is a non profit research, education, and public policy organization focused on the issues, dilemmas, and challenges of advancing information technology within ethical frameworks. Cei"s mission is to facilitate the examination and recognition of ethical issues in the development and use of modern information technologies. The output of this discussion provides educational resources and governing rules that have been adopted by many schools, organizations, and corporations around the globe. Cei"s constituency is composed of professionals from the academic, corporate and public policy, information technology and religious communities. In addition, its constituency is multi-disciplined, multi-cultural, cross-generational and international. Cei was founded in 1985 as the coalition for computer ethics. The brookings institution, the international business machines corporation (ibm), the. Washington consulting group and the washington technological consortium. The consortium"s goal was to provide methods to increase an awareness of the ethical ramifications inherent in the use of information technology.