| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In the primary and secondary education, students are mainly taught as 'information moral education' how to avoid criminal acts in the network or some other areas closely related to IT. But from broader perspectives, education of ethics taught in the IT education should include more constructive aspects of ethics which could be found piled up in the thoughts of information sciences, i.e. ethics concerned with positive rules which lead to constructing a new dimension of communities. Along this line of thought, we set as our goal creating brand-new contents of the IT ethics eduation, and planned firstly to survey thoughts of information sciences which could be expected to contain ethical aspects, secondary to extract vivid ethical points from them, and finaly to pick up several good examples those positive ethical rules should be actually applied to.
Through our research,
i)we put two categories of information science thoughts ; one is about creating flexible organizations which could be found in the process of constructing ARPANET, and second is about sharing information for creative production, which are noticeably found in the free software movement or the open source software movement.
ii)we examined those thoughts and extracted two important aspects of information ethics ; one is ethics for a new community construction based on constructing networks which are used for sharing information resources. And the other is ethis for community construction in which people share some obvious intension and piling up data is considered to be one of the aims of the group.
iii)we examined the possibilities to apply extracted ethical essences to some good examples of our social constructing acts, such as civil conferences on the Web, community currencies, and data banks of genes.
Finaly we shaped up the essential parts of our plan. And we'll continue to research to create education contents, together with some other results of information ethics education.
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