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Ethics Consultation for Computing Issues

CS5010
Closed
Lakehead University
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
KB
Kevin Brooks
Advisor, including Practicum Placements
(1)
3
Timeline
  • May 8, 2020
    Experience start
  • May 16, 2020
    Project Scope Meeting
  • May 23, 2020
    Midway Check In
  • June 30, 2020
    Experience end
General
  • Graduate
  • 125 learners; teams of 8
  • 10 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 2/1 project matches
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Any
  • Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Banking & finance, It & computing, Business & management
Categories
Product or service launch Humanities
Skills
teamwork applied ethics critical thinking research
Project timeline
  • May 8, 2020
    Experience start
  • May 16, 2020
    Project Scope Meeting
  • May 23, 2020
    Midway Check In
  • June 30, 2020
    Experience end
Overview
Learner goals and capabilities

Do you or your organization have an ethical question you would like a diverse team of Computer Science graduate students to consider? Pose that problems to a group of 8-10 students who will be able to deliver a sharp analysis of the problem from diverse ethical perspectives.

Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students will consider your ethical questions from multiple perspectives. They will provide careful, insightful, written analysis from each perspective, and they will put those perspectives into "conversation" with each other in a synthesis section of a short and useable report. They will not provide you with a single answer to your question, but will help you see the possible answers to your question, and give you a framework for making your own decision.

Project Examples

Students will be considering the following ethical issues in class but can also respond to your unique question or ethical dilemma:

  • How free does content really want to be?
  • What's the responsibility of the computing industry to reduce the digital divide?
  • How far should a program go to defend customers against data requests?
  • What's the responsibility of professionals to give back to open source?
  • How much should future consequences influence present decisions?
  • What's the role of the computing industry in finding, filtering, maybe even censoring fake news?

If you have data and use algorithms, students may also apply the "Ethics and Algorithm" toolkit to help you make ethical use of your data and algorithms. http://ethicstoolkit.ai/

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.

Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.