IEEE 7000
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Technology
Designing a More Sustainable Future Through Technology and Standards
During the past several months, IEEE has been taking part in The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum. The WSIS Forum serves as a platform for a global discussion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and how they can be a means to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals,…
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Power & Energy
How Can We Use ICT Standards For Sustainable Development?
What is Sustainable Development? Why is it Important? Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. When considering and discussing sustainability, people often first think of the environment – saving energy, reducing carbon footprints,…
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IEEE SA News
Building Customer Confidence in Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Financial Industry
The Importance of Applied Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Human data, the fundamental building block for artificial intelligent systems, is currently being accessed and shared in multiple ways across the world without unified policy, technology, or cultural guidelines. For industries like financial services — which is second only to the technology…
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
Contact Tracing Applications and Technologies Beyond COVID-19
IEEE SA Voice podcast discusses ethical considerations of personal privacy versus public health protection with contact tracing technologies and apps in the use of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.
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Technology
Evolving Procurement for Artificial Intelligence Systems in Cities and Beyond
As Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) technology is increasingly sourced from private companies for public use, existing procurement standards may fall short in proactively identifying harm or mitigating risks for citizens or users due to timing or budget constraints. Unfortunately, little research and interdisciplinary exchange exists to date on issues pertaining…
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Technology
SDGs and Personal Sovereignty: Digital Trust in the Algorithmic Age
In the wake of COVID-19, with increased need for location tracking and the sharing of biometric and medical data to combat the pandemic, a dialogue has emerged in governmental, commercial, and civil societies debating the balance between personal privacy and the protection of the public. Calls for personal data sovereignty–the…
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Power & Energy
WSIS Forum 2020: Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through ICTs
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) form the backbone of today's digital economy, with an enormous potential to accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and improve people's lives in fundamental ways—from providing access to education resources and healthcare, and fostering digital services and inclusion, to making communities…
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Artificial Intelligence Systems
Driving Ethical Implementation of A/IS from Principles to Practice
With autonomous and intelligent systems (A/IS) playing a larger and larger role in our daily lives, more and more attention is being paid to the ethical questions these revolutionary technologies raise. IEEE has spent the last three years helping the global A/IS community drive toward concrete, useful recommendations. A three-year,…
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Commentary & Perspectives
Can Ethics be Standardized? Creating Modern Standards for Ethical Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Technologists often react with an eye roll when the subject of ethics comes up. One interpretation of this is that they may think ethics is the purview of philosophy and religion and not really within their domain. An engineer may think of it as a “soft” subject, not the hard…
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Artificial Intelligence Systems
From Principles to Practice in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
As technology grows more and more pervasive across the ways that governments and citizens interact and relate with one another, hard ethical questions have arisen around the concepts of data, privacy, security and the potential benefits to and unintended consequences on human wellbeing. IEEE in recent years has worked to…