Books by Jared Bielby
ETHICALLY ALIGNED DESIGN A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, 2016
To fully benefit from the potential of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (AI/AS), we... more To fully benefit from the potential of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (AI/AS), we need to go beyond perception and beyond the search for more computational power
or solving capabilities.
We need to make sure that these technologies are aligned to humans in terms of our moral values and ethical principles. AI/AS have to behave in a way that is beneficial to people beyond reaching functional goals and addressing technical problems. This will allow for an elevated level of trust between humans and our technology that is needed for a fruitful pervasive use of AI/AS in our daily lives.
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The following book is about information. It is also about Rafael Capurro, knowledge and ethics. T... more The following book is about information. It is also about Rafael Capurro, knowledge and ethics. The chapters contained within this Festschrift illuminate the search for the meaning of information and Capurro’s influence on his two areas of expertise: information and philosophy.
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IEEE’s goal of universal Internet access for all global citizens has roots in the IEEE Board of D... more IEEE’s goal of universal Internet access for all global citizens has roots in the IEEE Board of Directors' recently approved position statement on universal access. Although the general support and response for this goal tends to be strongly positive, many obstacles and challenges to providing this commodity for all global citizens still exist. Within the framework of the IEEE Experts in Technology and Policy (ETAP) working group, and under the umbrella of IEEE's Collabratec Internet Technology Policy Community coordinated by IEEE consultant Jared Bielby, a group of industry experts have collaborated to identify and propose solutions to these challenges. After basic needs and electricity are addressed, the six challenges identified include the following: Infrastructure, cost, digital literacy, availability, disinterest, and public policy. Each of these challenges is explored, and various options for solutions are discussed. The advantages of universal global Internet connectivity are many and varied, and providing universal access for all will most likely support the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals.
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The purpose of the following white paper is to present a set of well- investigated internet traff... more The purpose of the following white paper is to present a set of well- investigated internet traffic security guidelines and best practices which others can use as a basis for future standards, certifications, laws, policies and/or product ratings. While most, if not all of the following guidelines apply to all Internet-connected devices, the presented guidelines focus on internet traffic security best practices for wired or wireless networks. They detail security mechanisms necessary for consideration at the manufacturing design phase rather than after deployment of devices to internet service providers and end users. The paper leads with the assertion that a thorough study on protecting Internet traffic does not yet exist, and proposes, based on our findings, that existing technology is not yet sufficient to meet the goal of protecting Internet traffic. The best practices presented are centered around countering and preventing malicious activity. By setting up a secure network with industry standard security protocols, the risk and potential legal liabilities associated with an unsecured network can be proactively addressed.
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The purpose of this paper is to present a set of well-investigated Internet of Things (IoT) secu... more The purpose of this paper is to present a set of well-investigated Internet of Things (IoT) security guidelines and best practices that others can use as a basis for future standards, certifications, laws, policies and/or product ratings. Most, if not all, of these guidelines would apply to any Internet- connected device; however, this paper focuses on security and privacy measures either peculiar to the IoT or especially relevant to the IoT. This paper assumes the end-to-end processing model of the Internet, in which application features such as security are handled by end nodes of the network, client and server hardware. It focuses on security mechanisms, including patching and updating, that should be considered at the manufacturing design phase rather than after devices have already been built or deployed.
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Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies
The following review explores Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE) in terms of comparative phil... more The following review explores Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE) in terms of comparative philosophy, supporting IIE as the most relevant and significant development of the field of Information Ethics (IE). The focus of the review is threefold. First, it will review the core presumption of the field of IIE, that being the demand for an inter- mission in the pursuit of a founding philosophy for IE in order to first address the philosophical biases of IE by western philosophy. Second, a history of the various philosophical streams of IIE will be outlined, including its literature and pioneering contributors. Lastly, a new synthesis of comparative philosophies in IIE will be offered, looking towards a future evolution of the field. Examining the interchange between contemporary information ethicists regarding the discipline of IIE, the review first outlines the previously established presumptions of the field of IIE that posit the need for an IE as grounded in western sensibilities. The author then addresses the implications of the foregoing presumption from several non-western viewpoints, arguing that IIE does in fact find roots in non-western philosophies as established in the concluding synthesis of western and eastern philosophical traditions.
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The following paper will trace the recently established field of Information Ethics through it’s ... more The following paper will trace the recently established field of Information Ethics through it’s various evolutions, from it’s origins in Librarianship to it’s role as a global player in areas as diverse as technology, media, global humanitarianism, and the philosophy of information. The praxis of the field will be outlined for the uninitiated reader, followed by an intimate history of the founding players and their continued contribution to this ever-evolving field. The current evolutions of Information Ethics will then be explored in the context of their application to the viral global phenomena of Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE), and finally, the paper will conclude with projections towards future evolutions in Information Ethics, as well as an exploration of potential definitions for the field.
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The attempt to establish a unified taxonomy for the field of Information Ethics is both unattaina... more The attempt to establish a unified taxonomy for the field of Information Ethics is both unattainable and unwarranted. The categorization of Information Ethics as a defined discipline, an applicable practice, a philosophy and a worldview remains constantly in flux due to, what Luciano Floridi terms, ‘philosophical naturalism’. As such, a broadening understanding of the field will only serve to further collapse categorization. The following paper will outline, using a discourse analysis methodology, how the nature of the field of Information Ethics at a foundational level must necessarily defy classification. The assumptions behind the current classifications of the field will be questioned. Beginning with the history of the inception of the field through Librarianship and Cybernetics and questioning the yet unresolved ontological debates between information philosophers such as Rafael Capurro and Floridi, this paper will explicate how any such attempt to develop an agreed upon taxonomy will and should always remain incomplete.
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Information Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship: Essays on Ideas to Praxis, 2017
Recently enlightening the realm of Information ethics are all of the consequences, ethical dialog... more Recently enlightening the realm of Information ethics are all of the consequences, ethical dialogues and politics which currently reside under, and stem from, the Wikileaks phenomenon, where “WikiLeaks,” for the purposes of the following essay, is more than the...
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Musique et écologies du son / Music and ecologies of sound, Université Paris 8. 2013, Jun 8, 2013
Harnessing the sun as an energy source is of great inter- est in this age of energy crises, and h... more Harnessing the sun as an energy source is of great inter- est in this age of energy crises, and holds our imagination because of its quiet, seemingly magical properties. Photo- voltaic technologies have grown quickly over the past 20 years, and more and more applications of solar power are finding use today. In the arts, solar power is often used as energy sources for public artworks, as a practical matter. These systems typically work in conjunction with batter- ies or other sources of energy in order to ensure a constant voltage and power level. However, an alternate approach is to design the work to use the sun’s energy directly, and exclusively, with the sunlight itself as a functional param- eter of the material. In this paper, we examine the use of photovoltaics in the direct production of sound as a func- tion of its existence. These solarsonic works are designed to use the sun in the same way that wind-based artworks use the wind: they are activated directly, and are totally dependent on the light available in the moment. We sur- vey solarsonic works by several artists, and discuss a se- ries of works by the author, and conclude with a look at what the future may bring.
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Conference Presentations by Jared Bielby
Net Neutrality, 2017
The 10th anniversary conference of the African Network for Information Ethics (ANIE) was organize... more The 10th anniversary conference of the African Network for Information Ethics (ANIE) was organized by the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE), University of Pretoria, South Africa, and took place on February 21-24, 2017, its theme: to celebrate a decade of promoting Information Ethics in Africa. The following report summarizes discussions which took place around Net Neutrality in South Africa, one of several sessions dedicated to discussing the state of ICTs and ethics in Africa.
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The IEEE Experts in Technology and Policy (ETAP) Forum on Closing the Cyberspace Policy-Technolog... more The IEEE Experts in Technology and Policy (ETAP) Forum on Closing the Cyberspace Policy-Technology Divide to Drive the Future of the Internet is a unique platform connecting technology developers and policy makers in a meaningful way.
The global industry needs sound Internet policy because it helps fuel Internet innovation, sustainability and market growth.
Focus areas for this IEEE ETAP Forum include:
Assessing technology and policy factors and actors that affect the development and management of the Internet Global acceptance of technology protocols and standards versus policy localization Building an environment that enables the interaction of technologists and policy makers.
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The IEEE Experts in Technology and Policy (ETAP) Forum on Internet Governance, Cybersecurity and ... more The IEEE Experts in Technology and Policy (ETAP) Forum on Internet Governance, Cybersecurity and Privacy is bringing together technology developers and policy makers to debate current and future Internet governance, cybersecurity and privacy issues that impact everyone on a global, national and local scale.
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One of the goals of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) is to establish a foun... more One of the goals of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) is to establish a foundation for Information Ethics in different cultural regions around the world based on a localized context in a globalized setting. ICIE began with Africa some ten years ago, and Africa now has an extensive network of Information Ethics teaching and education through African universities and courses. ICIE next established contact with Japan in similar veins, as well as in Brazil, a country that is now very active in Information Ethics. In addition, numerous others countries have recently taken up scholarship in the field.
ICIE would like to present an opportunity to Israel through the faculty at Bar-Ilan University, for anyone who is interested, to become involved with the field of Information Ethics and the International Center for Information Ethics. Bar-Ilan University has a strong foundation in Hebrew and Jewish studies & Jewish heritage as well as technology, nano-technology and engineering, and for those reasons, I believe that Bar-Ilan has the potential to become one of the most relevant academic and cultural centers for the study of Information Ethics in the world. Tel Aviv is a culturally diverse region and forward thinking in both technology and heritage and the potential for establishing an intercultural "base" for Information Ethics in Israel in partnership with ICIE is ripe, having depth of the written/literary tradition of the Hebrew language and people and the potential of the Jewish people towards contributing a vast reservoir of knowledge and tradition to the philosophical "concept of Information". Tel Aviv is also culturally and geographically situated in such a way that, by location along, Bar Ilan university could serve as a hub towards global intercultural meeting in the field.
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The following presentation is an abridged review of my masters thesis, currently a work in progre... more The following presentation is an abridged review of my masters thesis, currently a work in progress, one that at a basic level attempts to draw a history of the field of Information Ethics, while on another level attempts to establish a theoretical foundation for an ethics for WikiLeaks within the praxis of Information Ethics.
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Rafael recently sent me a link to Lightman’s classic article, Our Place in the Universe, where he... more Rafael recently sent me a link to Lightman’s classic article, Our Place in the Universe, where he further questions the prevalent understanding of universal citizenship, mirroring many of the above posed questions. In response to Lightman’s article, Dr. Capurro observes that, “In some way we are strangers in the universe and not citizens” (Capurro, in conversation, 2014). Perhaps we are indeed all strangers in our own land, as we are in the cosmos, as we are in cyberspace.
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Professional Experience by Jared Bielby
Project management for initiatives in AI Ethics, Internet governance and information ethics. Rese... more Project management for initiatives in AI Ethics, Internet governance and information ethics. Research contracts, leadership building, mentoring, recruiting and deliverables. Content writing, consulting and editing services for authors, publishers, companies and institutions. Consulting and conference keynote presentations on information ethics, Internet Governance, AI Ethics, IoT, and other technology & policy related issues. Peer review for journals in philosophy, ethics and technology. External examiner for university courses in informatics, information ethics and information science. Digital community building, social media strategies, networking and forum building.
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Organization and management of interdisciplinary and intersectoral projects in AI, including conf... more Organization and management of interdisciplinary and intersectoral projects in AI, including conferences and publications that bring together researchers in the history, ethics, policies, business and science of AI with stakeholders from business and government. Connecting AI researchers in Computing Science with social science and humanities researchers with stakeholders from business and government. The goal of the Project Manager position is to mobilize knowledge about the social and ethical impact of AI in a fashion that encourages safe and open innovation.
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The Freelance Netizen™ ~ http://www.thefreelancenetizen.com, Jan 1, 2015
As Editor-in-Chief at The Freelance Netizen™ online magazine, I edit, peer-review and supervise p... more As Editor-in-Chief at The Freelance Netizen™ online magazine, I edit, peer-review and supervise peer review services for all article and editorial submissions.
The Freelance Netizen™ explores the interdisciplinary connections between Information & Communication Technologies and the history of information culture, civil rights and social action. It critically addresses digital mediums as the intercultural confluence of global dialectics. A typical editorial at TFN magazine might explore the present and future directions of Intercultural Information Ethics and its crossroads with the latest WikiLeaks debate.
TFN magazine provides a crossroads between the academic applications of philosophy, technology and interculture with current events, looking to philosophies of communication and information as a platform for addressing questions of digital ontology. TFN magazine is currently exploring, alongside the International Centre for Information Ethics, applications of global citizenship in a digital era with a specific address of digital citizenship and the netizen.
The objective of TFN magazine is to further expertise in intercultural editing and writing for academic and scholarly communications and current events, both on a local and global scale, by researching and structuring innovative dialogue towards a citizen engagement of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) through an understanding of the nature of information.
Jared Bielby,
Editor-in-Chief, TFN
Co-chair, ICIE
Editor, IRIE
www.jaredbielby.com
http://www.thefreelancenetizen.com
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As Chair for the International Center for Information Ethics, I am responsible for promoting and ... more As Chair for the International Center for Information Ethics, I am responsible for promoting and maintaining the founding vision of the academic community of ICIE, for managing its global-wide membership, its advisory board, and for attending to and updating global chapters, credentials, contacts, and communications.
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or solving capabilities.
We need to make sure that these technologies are aligned to humans in terms of our moral values and ethical principles. AI/AS have to behave in a way that is beneficial to people beyond reaching functional goals and addressing technical problems. This will allow for an elevated level of trust between humans and our technology that is needed for a fruitful pervasive use of AI/AS in our daily lives.
Select Papers by Jared Bielby
Conference Presentations by Jared Bielby
The global industry needs sound Internet policy because it helps fuel Internet innovation, sustainability and market growth.
Focus areas for this IEEE ETAP Forum include:
Assessing technology and policy factors and actors that affect the development and management of the Internet Global acceptance of technology protocols and standards versus policy localization Building an environment that enables the interaction of technologists and policy makers.
ICIE would like to present an opportunity to Israel through the faculty at Bar-Ilan University, for anyone who is interested, to become involved with the field of Information Ethics and the International Center for Information Ethics. Bar-Ilan University has a strong foundation in Hebrew and Jewish studies & Jewish heritage as well as technology, nano-technology and engineering, and for those reasons, I believe that Bar-Ilan has the potential to become one of the most relevant academic and cultural centers for the study of Information Ethics in the world. Tel Aviv is a culturally diverse region and forward thinking in both technology and heritage and the potential for establishing an intercultural "base" for Information Ethics in Israel in partnership with ICIE is ripe, having depth of the written/literary tradition of the Hebrew language and people and the potential of the Jewish people towards contributing a vast reservoir of knowledge and tradition to the philosophical "concept of Information". Tel Aviv is also culturally and geographically situated in such a way that, by location along, Bar Ilan university could serve as a hub towards global intercultural meeting in the field.
Professional Experience by Jared Bielby
The Freelance Netizen™ explores the interdisciplinary connections between Information & Communication Technologies and the history of information culture, civil rights and social action. It critically addresses digital mediums as the intercultural confluence of global dialectics. A typical editorial at TFN magazine might explore the present and future directions of Intercultural Information Ethics and its crossroads with the latest WikiLeaks debate.
TFN magazine provides a crossroads between the academic applications of philosophy, technology and interculture with current events, looking to philosophies of communication and information as a platform for addressing questions of digital ontology. TFN magazine is currently exploring, alongside the International Centre for Information Ethics, applications of global citizenship in a digital era with a specific address of digital citizenship and the netizen.
The objective of TFN magazine is to further expertise in intercultural editing and writing for academic and scholarly communications and current events, both on a local and global scale, by researching and structuring innovative dialogue towards a citizen engagement of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) through an understanding of the nature of information.
Jared Bielby,
Editor-in-Chief, TFN
Co-chair, ICIE
Editor, IRIE
www.jaredbielby.com
http://www.thefreelancenetizen.com
or solving capabilities.
We need to make sure that these technologies are aligned to humans in terms of our moral values and ethical principles. AI/AS have to behave in a way that is beneficial to people beyond reaching functional goals and addressing technical problems. This will allow for an elevated level of trust between humans and our technology that is needed for a fruitful pervasive use of AI/AS in our daily lives.
The global industry needs sound Internet policy because it helps fuel Internet innovation, sustainability and market growth.
Focus areas for this IEEE ETAP Forum include:
Assessing technology and policy factors and actors that affect the development and management of the Internet Global acceptance of technology protocols and standards versus policy localization Building an environment that enables the interaction of technologists and policy makers.
ICIE would like to present an opportunity to Israel through the faculty at Bar-Ilan University, for anyone who is interested, to become involved with the field of Information Ethics and the International Center for Information Ethics. Bar-Ilan University has a strong foundation in Hebrew and Jewish studies & Jewish heritage as well as technology, nano-technology and engineering, and for those reasons, I believe that Bar-Ilan has the potential to become one of the most relevant academic and cultural centers for the study of Information Ethics in the world. Tel Aviv is a culturally diverse region and forward thinking in both technology and heritage and the potential for establishing an intercultural "base" for Information Ethics in Israel in partnership with ICIE is ripe, having depth of the written/literary tradition of the Hebrew language and people and the potential of the Jewish people towards contributing a vast reservoir of knowledge and tradition to the philosophical "concept of Information". Tel Aviv is also culturally and geographically situated in such a way that, by location along, Bar Ilan university could serve as a hub towards global intercultural meeting in the field.
The Freelance Netizen™ explores the interdisciplinary connections between Information & Communication Technologies and the history of information culture, civil rights and social action. It critically addresses digital mediums as the intercultural confluence of global dialectics. A typical editorial at TFN magazine might explore the present and future directions of Intercultural Information Ethics and its crossroads with the latest WikiLeaks debate.
TFN magazine provides a crossroads between the academic applications of philosophy, technology and interculture with current events, looking to philosophies of communication and information as a platform for addressing questions of digital ontology. TFN magazine is currently exploring, alongside the International Centre for Information Ethics, applications of global citizenship in a digital era with a specific address of digital citizenship and the netizen.
The objective of TFN magazine is to further expertise in intercultural editing and writing for academic and scholarly communications and current events, both on a local and global scale, by researching and structuring innovative dialogue towards a citizen engagement of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) through an understanding of the nature of information.
Jared Bielby,
Editor-in-Chief, TFN
Co-chair, ICIE
Editor, IRIE
www.jaredbielby.com
http://www.thefreelancenetizen.com
"In its present understanding, Ethics deals with issues of values, customs and rules of fair play in today's society as well as in other epochs and cultures. Due to the complexity of the issues in areas such as biology, business, medicine and media, ethical reflection is subdivided into, for instance, bioethics, business ethics, medical ethics and media or information ethics depending on whether media ethics is supposed to deal with mass media and information ethics with internet issues. A further sub-division is appropriate when dealing with ethical issues of Internet research (Internet research ethics)." - Rafael Capurro
- Jared Bielby
"The term information is omnipresent in academic research as well as in everyday life. Buzz words such as information society, information age or information overload are floating around everywhere. But what do we mean exactly with 'information' in different contexts?
The philosopher Rafael Capurro dealt with this question in the late 1970's in his PhD thesis on the concept of information. Especially the philosophical community was suffering at that time from a lack of reflection thereupon. Capurro tried to fill this gap. The following remark by the physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007) had a particular impact on him.
"Today we are getting accustomed [...] to understand information as something different from matter and consciousness. What we have discovered is an old truth in a new place. It is the Platonic eidos, the Aristotelian form, expressed in words such that also a human being in the 20th century can learn about them."
Weizsäcker’s step back to the history of ideas motivated Capurro also to deal with ethical issues of the information society particularly since the rise of the internet. The handling of digital information requires new cultural skills that are addressed with the term 'information literacy.' In the last ten years many projects in the Library and Information Science field (LIS) include or are even focused on information literacy (IL). In many of these projects there is a pre-understanding that IL has to do with the ability to find, filter, and process digital information. At the same time, there is a gap between this pre-understanding and an the ongoing academic discussion on the concept of information. The following dialogue deals particularly with this gap."
~ Linda Treude
What is cosmopolitan in the digital age? Is a global digital citizen the same as merely a digital citizen? While talk of digital citizenship has increased in recent years, usually centered on a capitalist drive, encouraging a full electronic participation in society and a responsibility to digital commerce, many questions remain unanswered. Is the netizen the citizen of a democratic state, and of digital democracy? As a citizen of the world interacting online, how will one’s “rights” and “duties” be determined? And are these “rights” universal, and in such a case, what does “universal” mean? What are the legal parameters of netizenship, and what will they be as globalization further takes hold? Is democracy critical to citizenship, or is it not? What are the political landscapes of global citizenship in the digital age? And last of all, is the concept of digital citizenship even tangible? Is it real?