Resources
This section provides abstracts for all the articles that have been published in the ORBIT Journal. The abstracts are shown here and clicking on an abstract will take you to a page you can use to access the full journal article (note: this will take you to the journal website and away from the main ORBIT site).
The articles are also broken down by key concept in the drop-down menu above, so you can read about Concepts in RRI, Case Studies, Ethical Issues, Technologies and Solutions
On the Difficult Task of Teaching Computer Ethics to Engineers
This paper addresses the challenges of teaching computer ethics to engineers. The computer professionals are identified as the starting point of the stakeholders network of ICT and as a consequence it...
Inaugural Editorial
The ORBIT Journal- An Online Journal for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT Taken From: Vol 1 No 1 (2017): The ORBIT Journal – An Online Journal for Responsible Research and Innovation i...
More rational discourse for designing information systems
Possibilities and challenges This article analyses the possibilities of using Habermasian rational discourse for designing information systems. We start by conceptualizing, how Habermasian rational di...
The Rule of Law and EU Data Protection Legislation
Some Controversial Issues in light of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation The article aims to analyse the evolution of the EU data protection legislation against the rule of law standards re...
Who will rule the world in the future?
Can new technologies dramatically change humanity as we know it? New technologies are dramatically changing human civilization in a way few could have imagined even at the end of the 20th century. And...
Ethical Dimensions of User Centric Regulation
In this paper, we question the role of information technology (IT) designers in IT regulation. Through our concept of user centric regulation (UCR) we unpack what a closer alignment of IT design and r...