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Many people start their journey into the ethics of automation and robotics by looking at Asimov’s Laws of Robotics.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm (etc. etc.)As I’ve said before, I believe …
Although ethical principles have been put forward by philosophers through the ages, the first person to articulate ethical principles for information technology was Norbert Wiener. In his book The Human Use of Human Beings, first published in 1950, …
The purpose of this blogpost is to enumerate the declared ethical positions of major players in the data world. This is a work in progress.GoogleIn June 2018, Sundar Pinchai (Google CEO) announced a set of AI principles for Google. This inclu…
I recently read an article in the Australian Financial Review. It suggested that there is a split in one of the Australian political parties. The rationale given was that a decision made by leadership could jeopardise future elections. This read to … Continue reading →
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Architecture principles, are they any good?
Architecture principles enable us manage the enterprise complexity by separating concerns, usually by structuring the enterprise in groups of entities which could be developed and …
Principles are in essence Rules for decision making.
At times though, they just recommend best practices.
Principles are the result of experience and abstraction. They help us make judgements, i.e. take decisions without the neve…
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Values not practiced just pull the wool over the eyes of our stakeholders.
To make the Values happen, we should cascade them hierarchically, top down, from conceptual to practical, to Policies and Procedures. As a …
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The Company Values establish, ideally, a standard to guide the behaviour of a company and its employees.
The Values, which state the expectations from the employee behaviour and company, are to steer the company decision making a…
We all have values, rules, policies, standards… in the enterprise that guide its operation, behaviour and further development. They keep the enterprise effective and honest, or, at least, they should.
Values are essentially a m…
The Government Digital Service principles
The Government Digital Service principles (i)
The Government Digital Service principles (ii)
The Government Digital Service principles should become part of the culture
Government as a platform, foundations
Gov…
The UK Government Digital Initiative
The GaaP, Government as a Platform
GaaP as a Service Delivery Platform (SDP)
GaaP implementation
Comments on the “Foundations for Government as a Platform”.
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“Meet technical and design standards”
The same service design standards should apply. In fact, it is both the government and the suppliers that should elaborate and app…