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Another error corrected in my #ArchiMate 3.0.1 Reference Sheets
I’ve corrected another error (again reported by Alun Champion. Thanks!) in the ArchiMate 3.0.1 sheets. The Realisation from Technology Interface to Business Interface was in the sheet twice. Not a breach of the grammar, but better to have it fixe…
Responsibility by Design – Activity View
In my ongoing work on #TechnologyEthics. I have identified Five Elements of Responsibility by Design. One of these elements is what I’m calling the Activity View – defining effective and appropriate action at different points in the lifecycle of a tech…
Responsible Beta Testing
Professor Luciano Floridi has recently made clear his opposition to irresponsible beta testing, by which he means “trying something without exactly knowing what one is doing, to see what happens, on people who may not have volunteered to be the subject…
Five Elements of Responsibility by Design
I have been developing an approach to #TechnologyEthics, which I call #ResponsibilityByDesign. It is based on the five elements of #VPECT. Let me start with a high-level summary before diving into some of the detail.
Values
- Why does ethics matter?
- What outcomes for whom?
Policies
- Principles and practices of technology ethics
- Formal codes of practice, etc. Regulation.
Event-Driven (Activity Viewpoint)
- Effective and appropriate action at different points: planning; risk assessment; design; verification, validation and test; deployment; operation; incident management; retirement. (Also known as the Process Viewpoint).
Content (Knowledge Viewpoint)
- What matters from an ethical point of view? What issues do we need to pay attention to?
- Where is the body of knowledge and evidence that we can reference?
Trust (Responsibility Viewpoint)
- Transparency and governance
- Responsibility, Authority, Expertise, Work (RAEW)
Concerning technology ethics, there is a lot of recent published material on each of these elements separately, but I have not yet found much work that puts them together in a satisfactory way. Many working groups concentrate on a single element – for example, principles or transparency. And even when experts link multiple elements, the logical connections aren’t always spelled out.
At the time of writing this post (May 2019), I haven’t yet fully worked out how to join these elements either, and I shall welcome constructive feedback from readers and pointers to good work elsewhere. I am also keen to find opportunities to trial these ideas on real projects.
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Responsibility by Design (June 2018) What is Responsibility by Design (October 2018) Why Responsibility by Design Now? (October 2018)
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I’m still here…
Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For…