Professional IT Ethics need to be revised, and made an active not passive activity

The 8th Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference in Melbourne on 19-20 August 2019, which I helped to organise, was sponsored by both the ACS (Australian Computer Society) and the IEEE and chaired by Professor Matt Warren of Deakin University. I presented a paper on the need to revise and activate Professional IT Ethics, and the URLs for both the slides and the video of my presentation to this specific topic are included here: (https://works.bepress.com/mwigan/40/

https://works.bepress.com/mwigan/39/

As the environments for both IT and the ethical issues involved have changed substantially since the 1990s, and the rates of change are still rising, the plummeting trust of the community in organisations-and indeed in politics- demands that we address the gaps in support of IT professional who are increasingly distressed by some of the decisions made on design and deployment of projects in which they are involved. As the supply chains are so long and diverse for IT projects- and the massive breadth of an increasing number now encompass most of the community at large, Professional societies need to play a more active role in supporting potential (and indeed actual) whistleblowers by providing channels for their enunciation and resolution..remember, the recent Australian whistleblower Act excludes the very bodies most in need of them- those part of Government. I hope that the two documents (one pdf and one video) linked here will help to catalyse options. I await the discussions and comments frm those who follow them up here with great interest.