The Challenge of Raising Ethical Awareness: A Case-Based Aiding System for Use by Computing and ICT Students.
Students, the future Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals, are often perceived to have little understanding of the ethical issues associated with the use of ICTs. There is a growing recognition that the moral issues associated with the use of the new technologies should be br...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 299 - 316 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2005
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