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Academic Degrees, Awards & Professional Experience Selected Reports, Publications and Presentations Reports at WSIS and UNESCO Meetings Keynote Addresses and Contributions to Conferences Books and Book Chapters Selected Presentations on IE in Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics ANIE / ACEIE / UWM / CFF Awards See: ANIE Archive See: ICIE Publications Lesedi Cultural Village, North West Province, South Africa
ACADEMIC
DEGREES, AWARDS
& PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE See: Certificates Licenciate in
Philosophy from Universidad
del
Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (1971).
Dr.phil. in Philosophy from Düsseldorf University (1978). Postdoctoral teaching qualification (Habilitation) in Practical Philosophy (Ethics) from Stuttgart University (1989). Lecturer / Privatdozent at the Institute of Philosophy, Stuttgart University (1989-2004) Professor emeritus of Information Science and Information Ethics at Stuttgart Media University, Germany (1986-2009). Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Digital Ethics (IDE), Stuttgart Media University (since 2014) Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) to the European Commission (2000-2010) Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin: Transfer-Institute Information Ethics, Director (2008-2013). Senior Fellow of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan (2014-2019) Research Associate in the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2020-2022) Member of the Editorial Team of INKANYISO (Journal of African Thought) Academic Advisor of the Institute of Philosophy & Technology See: Life in trranslation
2004-2018
Co-Founder
of the
Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics
CFF  Research
Associate
in the Department
of
Information Science 2020-2022  International Society for Ethics and Information Technology    Rafael
Capurro and Tobias Keber
(Germany) with participants of the ANIEversary
Summit
 Matthew
Kelly,
Rafael Capurro, Jared Bielby at the ANIEversary
Summit 2017
******* Fourth
Africa
Conference on Information Ethics
Information Ethics - Cross-Cutting Themes for Managing your Digital Life Kampala, Metropole Hotel, Uganda Programme July 2-4, 2014 Special
ANIE Award
for a decade of contributions to Information
Ethics in
presented by Prof. Constant Okello-Obura, University of Makarere, Uganda  The Award acknowledged by Prof. Johannes Britz (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
This award was also presented by Prof. Rafael Capurro to Prof. Dennis Ngong Ocholla, University of Zululand, South Africa  The award for political commitment to Information Ethics in Africa was presented by Mr Coetzee Bester (Director, ACEIE) and Mrs Rachel Fischer (ACEIE) to Mr Jaco du Toit, Adviser in Communication and Information, UNESCO, Nairobi Cluster Office  See: Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics *** Member of the
Advisory
Board of ID4Africa
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 Conference Presentations Conference Report Cape Town Declaration HOMAGE TO NELSON MANDELA NELSON MANDELA AS INFORMATION ETHICIST NELSON MANDELA A Reader on Information Ethics Edited by Coetzee Bester, Johannes Britz, Rafael Capurro & Rachel Fischer International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE), 2021 (Publisher), 284 pages Produced by Staging Post (Jacana Media) http://www.stagingpost.co.za Contents 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   Keynote speaker: Dr. Boyan Radoykov (UNESCO) on the right: Dr. Coetzee Bester, Director of ACEIE, and Rachel Fischer, ICIE Co-Chair See: UNESCO News  Rafael Capurro with Dr. Boyan Radoykov on the right: Dr. Coetzee Bester See Gallery  Visit to Robben Island Nelson Mandela's Cell **** CONNECTing
the
Dots: Options for Future Action.
Breakout Session 4: Ethics
(3
March 2015). From right to
left:
Cotzee Bester (Director, African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics, Pretoria, South Africa) Porntip Yenjabok (Assistant Professor, Kasetsart University, Thailand) Rafael Capurro Boyan Radoykov (Moderator, UNESCO) Ellen Blackler (Disney, USA) Aidan White (Director, Ethical Journalism Network, UK) Julia Pohle (Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Paul Hector (UNESCO) Information
Ethics
in UNESCO:
World
Information Ethics in the African Context. In: Information Ethics in Africa: Cross-cutting Themes. African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE), University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2013, 7-20. See also here. Information
Ethics
in
In search of a code of global information ethics: The road travelled and new horizons (R. Capurro and Johannes Britz). In Ethical Space (2010) vol. 7, No. 2/3, 28-36.
*** UNESCO
Workshop
on
Information Ethics and e-Government in
sub-Sahara Africa,
co-sponsored by the Government of South Africa, in cooperation with the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE ), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pretoria, 23-26 February 2009  Keynote address: "Intercultural Information Ethics", International ICIE Symposium: Localizing the Internet. Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective. Karlsruhe, Germany, 2004. Contribution from Africa: Willy Jackson (Université Paris 7 / Keynote
address
"Information
Ethics for and
from Africa", First
Africa
Information
Ethics Conference, Pretoria (South
Africa),
5-7 February
2007 published in the International Review of
Information Ethics
(IRIE)
(2007)
reprinted
in the Journal
of
the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, 59 (7): 1-9, 2008, as well as in
Africa Reader on Information Ethics (See below)
pp. 3-14.
African
Information
Ethics Conference:
Rafael
Capurro, Johannes Britz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee),
Mokwinning
Nhlapo (Department of Communications, SA), ?, Boyan
Radoykov (UNESCO), ?
See
also: http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0419/ijsrp-p8851.pdf Keynote
address: Global
Intercultural
Information Ethics from an African Perspective,
Second
Africa Information Ethics Conference, Keynote
address
"Ethical
Issues of
Online Social Networks in Africa", Third
Africa
Information Ethics Conference, Contributions
to the
Fourth Africa Information Ethics Conference:
"Information
Ethics
in Africa – cross-cutting
themes",
BOOKS,
BOOK
CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
Information
Ethics
in
Special
issue of Innovation on information Ethics
by Stephen M. Mutula Abridged
version in Johannes
Buchmann (ed.) Internet Privacy -
Eine
multidisziplinäre Bestandsaufnahme. A
Multidisciplinary
Analysis. Spanish
translation: Aspectos culturales de la
privacidad en un mundo culturalmente globalizado.
Keynote address at
the II
Congreso Internacional en Ética de la
Comunicación,
Universidad de Sevilla, 3-5
April, 2013. Citizenship
in the
Digital Age. Toni Samek and Lynette Schultz
(eds.): Information
Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship. Essays on
Ideas to Praxis.
Jefferson NC: McFarland 2017, 11-30
Intercultural Roboethics for a Robot Age. 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 Era", University of Tsukuba 2017 (ISSN 2432-5414), 13-18. In Search of Ariadne's Thread in Digital Labyrinths. In: M. Bottis & T. Alexandropoulou (eds.): Broadening the Horizons of Information Law and Ethics - A Time for Inclusion, University of Macedonia Press, 2017, 1-19 (pdf) Ethical Issues of Humanoid-Human Interaction. Prahlad Vadakkepat, Ambarish Goswami, Jong-Hwan Kim (eds.): Handboook of Humanoids. Springer 2017 (forthcoming) 14th
Information
Studies (IS) Annual Conference "Information
Ethics in Africa",
University of Zululand, Department of
Information Studies ( .
Information
Ethics
Workshop in cooperation with SCECSAL
XX Conference on
Information for sustainable development in a
digital environment. See
also: SCECSAL Forum.
Introductory presentation: Social Media and
Information
Ethics in Africa (PP),
 A2K4.
Access
to Knowledge and Human Rights
Conference hosted by the Information
Society
Project, Yale Law School,
Workshop: Identifying
Challenges
&
Opportunities for an African Information Ethics,
12-13 February, 2010.
At
the 4th
ANIE
International Conference on Information Ethics that
took
place on
July 2-4, 2014 in Kampala (Uganda) two ANIE /
ACEIE / UWM
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) /
CFF academic awards
were
presented to
Prof.
Dennis
Ngong
Ocholla, University of Zululand, South Africa. 2013 14th Information Studies (IS) Annual Conference "Information Ethics in Africa", University of Zululand, Department of Information Studies (South Africa), September 4-6, 2013.
2012
The
CFF
together with the African Centre of Excellence for
Information Ethics
(ACEIE) at the
University of Pretoria had the pleasure to present
the second ANIE (Africa
Network
for
Information Ethics) to Prof. Stephen Mutula
(University of
KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa) for his outstanding support of
information ethics in
Africa,
particularly  2010
The CFF
together with the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) (USA)
represented by
Provost Johannes B. Britz, had the pleasure to
present the first ANIE (Africa
Network
for Information Ethics) Award to Mr. Coetzee
Bester (South Africa) for
his
outstanding support of information ethics
projects in Africa,
particularly:  
SOURCE:
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