On December 12th, VIRT-EU members and partners attended ThingsCon 2019 at Het Nieuwe Instituut to facilitate a workshop discussing ethical issues faced by developers and designers working with

This essay is part of the The State of Responsible IoT 2019 report edited by Andrea Krajewski and Max Krüger and produced by ThingsCon. The authors were asked to

  Our research results demonstrate how ethical questions can and should be addressed in the development of technology. Our project outputs offer a foundation for future action by

    The third video in the VIRT-EU Ethical Unboxing Series is about the smart technologies we bring into our bedrooms and our beds. We decided to focus

The Ethical Stack is a series of tools to support creators of new connected technology to reflect on their product’s ethical and social impacts. Sign-up to try the

The 10th anniversary Mozilla Festival was held in Ravensbourne University in London at the end of October. Irina Shklovski and Alison Powell held an emergent session to challenge

Funda Ustek-Spilda, Alison Powell, Selena Nemorin Big Data & Society 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951719879468. First published Oct 3, 2019. Keywords: Internet of Things, social milieu, ethics, virtue ethics, responsible technology Discussions

Text by Irina Shklovski /  In this digital world, we shed data unintentionally as we go about our daily business. Vaguely, most of us are aware that we