The cyberspace permeates all dimensions of our contemporary life. It influences the way we travel, the way we remain in connection with others, communicate and harvest information, and ultimately how we organise our business and private lives. Who are we as humans amidst the cyberspace?
This online course addresses the salient ethical questions in relation to security, technologies and artificial intelligence, freedom and responsible citizenship, economics and bullying and protection of the vulnerable, religion, governance and democratic participation. The units include reading and study material of high actuality. Participants will benefit from full and free access to the Globethics.net online library with a plethora of publications in several collection areas of applied ethics. The course will be accompanied by two high profiled and experienced course instructors.
Key learning outcomes
- Recognize the main ethical aspects in cyber environment.
- Apply ethics, core values to all decisions that are made within cyber space.
- Analyze cyber space management approaches and models from the ethical perspective.
- Create new principles of behavior in cyber space that meet global ethical principles and rules.
Job prospects
Successful participants habitually work in public or private professional sectors. Cyber ethics is considered as one of the few key competencies decisive for all professional development initiatives and is considered as one of the key assets for employability.