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ACADEMIC
DEGREES & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Licentiate in
Philosophy from Colegio
Máximo,
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
Argentina (1971). Memberships Member of the
European Group on Ethics in Science and New
Technologies (EGE) to the
European Member of the Advisory Board of
the Institute for Digital Ethics (IDE),
Stuttgart Media University (since 2014) See: Life
in Translation
See: Certificates
CAPURRO FIEK
FOUNDATION ICIE
 PROJECTS
 Internet Privacy Final Report  (08/2011 - 01/2013) See English summary. See: Rafael Capurro, Michael Eldred and Daniel Nagel: Digital Whoness: Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld. Ontos / Berlin: de Gruyter 2013. Extensive parts can be previewed here.
Research
Fellow
of the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science (GSLIS), University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2003-2005). Special ANIE Award
for a decade of contributions to Information Ethics in
 International Society for Ethics and Information Technology 
Thanks
and Responses by Rafael Capurro Co-Editor
Information
Science
and Knowledge Management (Springer)
ADVANCED
NOTES
IN INFORMATION SCIENCE Founder
and
Editor-in-Chief (2004-2018)
Member of the Editorial Board / Consulting Editor Cybernetics & Human Knowing Ed. Soeren Brier Enl@ce. Revista venezolana de información, tecnología y conocimiento Ed. Jesús Alberto Andrade Flusserstudies.net Ed. Rainer Gulden Informação em Pauta Ed. Maria Giovanna Guedes Farias Informação & Tecnologia Ed. Placida Amorim da Costa Santos, Guilherme Ataide Dias Informatio Ed. Mario Barité Information Ed. Mark Burgin Inkanyiso Ed. Dennis Ocholla Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies Ed. H. Abdellhamid, T. Domiatty, A. Attia Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society Eds. Simon Rogerson, N. Ben Fairweather Leadership and the Humanities Ed. Antonio Marturano NanoEthics. Ethics for Technologies that converge at the nanoscale Ed. Christopher Coenen Open Information Science Ed. Paul Sturges Palabra clave Ed. María Cecilia Corda Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação Ed. Paulo da Terra Caldeira Revista Conhecimento em Ação Ed. Gustavo Henrique de Araújo Freire Revista Prefacio Ed. Elida Elizondo Signo y Pensamiento Ed. Catalina Montoya Londoño triple C Ed. Christian Fuchs
Foundations
of Information Science
The Quest for Roboethics: an Interview with Yue-Hsuan Weng
Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA): Dialogreihe Mobilität von morgen. Gespräch mit dem Vorstandsvorsitzenden der Continental AG, Dr. Elmar Degenhart. Moderation: Ines Arland, Berlin, 29. November 2016. Siehe auch: Continental AG.
Digitization as an Ethical Challenge, 2016. Information Literacies, 2014. EU Workshop ETICA, Brussels, March 31, 2011. Video. 
Beyond
Humanisms. In: Toru Nihigaki and Tadashi
Takenouchi, Editors: Information Ethics. The
Future of the Humanities. Nagoya City: V2
Solution Publisher, 2012, 26-74.
New Dilemmas, Same Principles:
Changing Landscape Requires IT Ethics to Go
Mainstream by George Lawton (Computing
Now,
News, July 2009). Interview
mit Michal Lorenz, Czech Republic (2009). International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT): Member Spotlight (2008). Keynote
address: "Interpreting the Digital Human"
to the conference "Thinking
Critically:
Alternative Perspectives and Methods in
Information Studies" organized by the Center for
Information Policy Research, School of
Information Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wisconsin, May 15-17, 2008. Video Open Forum Davos 2008 in cooperation with the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum and the Schweizerischer Evangelischer Kirchebund, Section: "Virtual Worlds: Fiction or Reality?", Participants: Philip Rosedale (CEO, Linden Labs/Second Life), Joseph Weizenbaum (MIT, USA), Reid Hoffman (President, LinkedIn Corp., USA), Florence Develey (Reinach/Basel), Rafael Capurro (HdM). Moderation: Loïc Le Meur (Seesmic, USA), Davos, 26. January 2008: World Economic Forum: Webcasts, Podcasts, Vodcasts. Open Forum Davos: Blog -> Webcast. On
Hermeneutics, Angeletics, and Information
Technology: Questions and Tentative Answers
Interview mit Tadashi Takenouchi, Japan
(2003). See
also here.
EVENTS
2021
2020
2019
2018
International
Policy
Dialogue
on IFAP Priority Areas in the BRICS Countries organized by the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE) See: ACEIE Newsletter 2018 Keynote: Digital Futures (PowerPoint) Cape
Town,
South Africa, July 4-8, 2018
Final Programme See: Homage to Nelson Mandela  Dr. Boyan Radoykov (on the right: Dr. Coetzee Bester and Rachel Fischer) See: UNESCO News  with Dr. Boyan Radoykov (UNESCO) (on the right: Dr. Coetzee Bester) See Gallery  Visit to Robben Island Nelson Mandela's Cell See: Homage to Nelson Mandela
2017
2015
2013
2012
2022 Smart Living in the Digital Age. In International Review of Information Ethics 31/1, 2022, 1-7 Information (Volltext). Ein Beitrag zur etymologischen und ideengeschichtlichen Begründung des Informationsbegriffs. München 1978 Traducción al castellano 2022 English Translation of the Preface 2022
2021
NELSON MANDELA A Reader on Information Ethics Edited by Coetzee Bester, Johannes Britz, Rafael Capurro & Rachel Fischer International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE), 2021, 284 pages Acknowledgements
Preface:
Nelson Madela as information ethicist: a dialogue - Prof. Rafael Capurro
In conversation with Nelson Mandela on effective reading of newspapers - Dr. Coetzee Bester Let there be justice for all, let there be peace for all and let freedom reign: A reflection on President Mandela's inaugural address from a social justice perspective - Prof. Johannes Britz Information and knowledge access for social justice: Perspectives from Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom - Prof. Dennis Ngong Ocholla Info-cultures: Automated emancipation or bondage? Facing the ethical challenge - Dr. Juliet Lodge Information justice in Africa: Insights on information ethics connected to Nelson Mandela's thinking - Maria Pawelec, Kerstin Schopp and PD Dr. Jessica Heesen Mandela and critical information literacy - Prof. Marco Schneider and Prof. Pablo Nabarrete Bastos Nelson Mandela and pan-Africanism: A nexus of identity, voice, and resistance - Prof. Maha Bashri 'How precious words are': Mandela as an infomoral exemplar and silence as a virtue - Prof. Tim Gorichanaz Towards an internet ombudsman institution - Adv. Dan Shefet South Africa in the times of Mandela's political rise: A correspondence - Prof. Julian Kinderlerer and Christopher Coenen The long talk to freedom: Censorship in a culture of isolation - Irin Klazar and Rachel Fischer List of contributors  Capurro, Rafael, Britz, Johannes, Bester, Coetzee: Practical guidelines for using a cultural platform in creating trust in information during times of crisis. In: Prabhakar Rao, Siva Prasad (eds.): Access to Information in Time of Crisis: The UNESCO Information for All Programme and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Proceedings of Three-Day Conference, 26-18 August, 2020, University of Hyderabad 2021, pp. 10-28. 2020 Homage to Nelson Mandela The Age of Artificial Intelligences. In: International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) Pseudangelia - Pseudangelos. On false messages and messengers in Ancient Greece. In: Informatio 25(1), 2020, pp.106-131. 2019 Leonardo da Vinci - Martin Heidegger 2019 Ethical Issues of Humanoid-Human Interaction. In: Ambarish Goswami, Prahlad Vadakkepat (eds.): Humanoid Robotics: A Reference. Dordrecht: Springer 2019, 2421-2436. Enculturaging Algorithms. In: Nanoethics 2019, 1-7; DOI: 10.1007/s11569-019-00340.9 Digital Futures. An brief essay on sustainable life in the digital age. In: Mètode. Science Studies Journal 2019. DOI: 10.703/metode.10.125.39 2018 The Debt of Natural Science. An Interview with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 2018 A Long-Standing Encounter. In: AI & Society 2018 Information Literacies: Understanding the Digital Age. (2018). 2017 "Autonomous Zombies are not an Option". In: 2025 AD, June 28, 2017 Rafael Capurro - Maximiliano Rodríguez Fleitas: "Let the Orientales be as enlightened as they are brave". The Digital Divide in the Context of Uruguay's Public Schools. In: Education for Information, March 2017. Intercultural Roboethics for a Robot Age. In: Makoto Nakada, Rafael Capurro and Koetsu Sato (Eds.): Critical Review of Information Ethics and Roboethics in East and West. Master's and Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Research Group for "Ethics and Technology in the Information Eta"), University of Tsukuba 2017 (ISSN 2432-5414), 13-18. Citizenship in the Digital Age. In: Toni Samek and Lynette Shultz (eds.): Information Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship. Essays on Ideas to Praxis. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2017. 11-39. (See the review by Geoffrey Rockwell) In Search of Ariadne's Thread in Digital Labyrinths. In: Proceedings of ICIL 2016 7th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics: Broadening the Horizons of Information Law and Ethics - A Time for Inclusion, University of Pretoria, South Africa, February 22-23, 2016 (pdf) Ethical Issues of Humanoid-Human Interaction. In: Prahlad Vadakkepat, Ambarish Goswami, Jong-Hwan Kim (eds.): Handboook of Humanoids. Springer 2017 (forthcoming) Information Literacies: Understanding the Digital Age. In: João Antonio de Moraes andMaria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez (eds.): Life, Information and New Technologies. (forthcoming) Digitization as an ethical challenge In: AI & Society, 2017 (32/2), 277-283. 2016 Glossarium BITri. Interdisciplinary Elucidation of Concepts, Metaphors, Theories and Problems Concernning Information. Coordinators: José María Díaz Nafría, Mario Pérez-Montoro Gutiérrez, Francisco Salto Alemany. Contributions on: angeletics, hermeneutics, intercultural information ethics, message, roboethics, information ethics. Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena (ed.), Ecuador, 2016. 2015 Translating Information. In: Proceedings of the conference FIS/ISIS 2015: Information Society at the Crossroads - Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, On Charlie Hebdo: The War over Universalisms (2015) Shapes of Freedom in the Digital Age. In: Hasan S. Keseroğlu, Guler Demir, Elsa Bitri und Aysenur Gunes (Hg.): Proceedings of the International Symposium on Philosophy of Library and Information Science. Ethics: Theory and Practice, Istanbul 2015. Information Literacies: Understanding the Digital Age. In: João Antonio de Moraes and Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez (eds.): Life, Information and New Technologies, Rio de Janeiro 2015. Citizenship in the Digital Age. In Toni Samek (University of Alberta) (ed.) (forthcoming) Toward a Comparative Theory of Agents. In: Mathias Gutman, Michael Decker, Julia Knifka (Eds.): Evolutionary Robotics, Organic Computing and Adaptive Ambience. Vienna: LIT 2015, 81-96. Originally a contribution to the Panel Autonomic Computing, Human Identity and Legal Subjectivity organized by Mireille Hildebrandt and Antoinette Rouvroy. In: AI & Society, Vol. 27, 4 (2012), 479-488. 2014 On Ethics, Information Ethics, and Internet Research Ethics. An Interview with Rahman Marefat and Mahmood Sangari (Semnan University, Iran). In Webology, Vol. 11, N. 2, 2014. 2013 Ethical Issues of Online Social Networks in Africa. In Innovation: Journal of appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa. Vol 46 (December 2013), 161-175. Go Glocal: Intercultural Comparison of Leadership Ethics. In: Infopreneurship Journal (IJ), 2013, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1-9. Medicine
in
the Information and Knowleldge Society In: Proceedings of the European Summit for
Clinical Nanomedicine and Targeted Medicine (forthcoming). Information
Ethics. In Byron Kaldis (ed.): Encyclopedia
of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publ.
2013.
Rafael
Capurro, Michael Eldred and Daniel Nagel: Digital Whoness:
Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the
Cyberworld. Berlin: de Gruyter 2013. Extensive parts
can be previewed here.
See a short version of this book at J. Buchmann (Ed.) Internet-Privacy (2012) with my contributions:
The Quest for Information Ethics and Roboethics in East and West ed. by Makoto Nakada and Rafael Capurro. Research Report on trends in information ethics and roboethics in Japan and the West. ReGIS (Research Group on the Information Society) and ICIE (Internatinal Center for Information Ethics), March 31, 2013.  An Intercultural Dialogue on Roboethics (Makoto Nakada and Rafael Capurro). In: Makoto Nakada and Rafael Capurro (eds.): The Quest for Information Ethics and Roboethics in East and West. Research Report on trends in information ethics and roboethics in Japan and the West. ReGIS (Research Group on the Information Society) and ICIE (Internatinal Center for Information Ethics), March 31, 2013, 13-22. 2012 Ethical Issues of Online Social Neworks in Africa . Rafael Capurro, Michael Eldred and Daniel Nagel: IT and Privacy from an ethical perspective: Digital Whoness: Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld in Johannes Buchmann (ed.) Internet Privacy - Eine multidisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme / A multidisciplinary analysis. Berlin: Acatech 2012, pp. 63-142. Printed version: Springer 2012. Toward a Comparative Theory of Agents. Contribution to the Panel Autonomic Computing, Human Identity and Legal Subjectivity organized by Mireille Hildebrandt and Antoinette Rouvroy. In: AI & Society, Vol. 27, 4 (2012), 479-488. Beyond Humanisms. In:Toru Nishigaki and Tadashi Takenouchi (eds.): Information Ethics. The Future of the Humanities. Nagoya City: V2Solution Publisher 2012, 26-74. 2011
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Beyond
Humanisms. In: Toru Nihigaki and
Tadashi Takenouchi, Editors: Information
Ethics. The Future of the Humanities. Nagoya
City: V2 Solution Publisher, 2012, 26-74.
 Some of the keynote speakers at
the IEEE International Symposium on Technology
and Society (IEEE ISTAS) pictured (in ascending
order) are Amal Graafstra, Dr Roger Clarke, Dr
Mark Gasson and Professor Rafael Capurro along
with the conference committee chair, Gene
Hoffnagle. Photo by: Zac Gatland
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