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PENNY
DUQUENOY
Senior Lecturer - Middlesex
University
Penny Duquenoy is a Senior
Lecturer at Middlesex University
with a background in philosophy.
She is a leading researcher
in the field of Ethics and
ICT, with more than 30 publications
on aspects of ethics in
relation to applied information
technologies and is currently
Chair of IFIP Working Group
on Computers and Social
Accountability, member of
IFIP Special Interest Group
on Ethics and Manager of
the British Computer Society
Ethics Forum. Her specific
research interests focus
on the ethical impact of
computer technologies, particularly
in relation to individuals
as citizens and vulnerable
groups in the application
area of intelligent systems
in everyday life. She has
presented at EU level on
this subject, participated
in EU projects and has acted
as an invited expert for
ethical review of EU FP7
projects.
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RAFAEL
GONZALEZ FUENTETAJA
Consultant - Telefonica
Group
Rafael Gonzalez Fuentetaja
holds a degree in Telecomunications
Engineering from Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid. He
joined Telefonica I+D in
May 1990 to work on the
RECIBA project, a ATM broadband
pilot. From 1994 on, his
interest shifted towards
software engineering, where
he has been active in several
projects for the Telefonica
Group, ranging from billing
systems to web front-ends,
both as developer and as
a consultant. In March 2007,
he joined the Digital Home
Division in Telefonica I+D
and the MINAmI project as
WP7 leader.
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EIJA
KAASINEN
Manager, Media and Mobile
Usability research team
- VTT
Eija Kaasinen holds a degree
of doctor of technology
and a master's degree in
software engineering. She
is in charge of Media and
Mobile Usability research
team at VTT, Technical Research
Centre of Finland. Her research
interests include user acceptance
of technology and human-centred
design especially in the
fields of mobile and ubiquitous
services. Eija Kaasinen
has been a work package
(WP) leader in MIMOSA (MIcrosystems
platform for MObile Services
and Applications) project
(2004-2006), being in charge
of human-centred design
activities in the project.
MIMOSA was an integrated
project studying Ambient
Intelligence components
and applications in the
Information Society Technologies
priority of the European
Sixth Framework Research
Programme. Currently she
is a WP leader in MINAmI
(Micro-Nano integrated platform
for traverse Ambient Intelligence
applications) project that
is continuing MIMOSA work.
In MINAmI project she is
in charge of human-centred
design approach in the project
as well as ethical issues.
Based on the results of
those three projects, currently
her main research interest
is extending human-centred
design approach to the design
of technical infrastructures.
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KAI
K. KIMPPA
Lecturer - University of
Turku
Kai K. Kimppa works as a
lecturer at the University
of Turku, Finland. He has
been active in research
in the field of Computer
Ethics for five years, with
approximately 20 publications
on the ethical implications
of ICT. Key areas of his
research include justification
of IPRs, ethics of medical
informatics and ethics of
online computer games. He
has given presentations
in both academic and business
conferences. He is Secretary
of International Federation
of Information Processing
(IFIP) Working Group 9.2
Computers and Social Accountability
as well as IFIP Special
Interest Group (SIG) 9.2.2
Taskforce on Ethics, and
a member of the Finnish
Information Processing Association
Ethics Group, which he also
represents as a National
Representative in the IFIP
SIG 9.2.2.
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OLLI
PITKANEN
Researcher - Helsinki University
of Technology
Olli Pitkänen holds
a doctorate in information
technology, a master's degree
in software engineering,
and a master's degree in
laws. He has worked as a
researcher and a teacher
at Helsinki University of
Technology and at Helsinki
Institute for Information
Technology HIIT since 1993.
Currently, he is also a
visitor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
In 1999-2001, he was a visiting
scholar at University of
California, Berkeley. His
research interests include
legal, societal, and ethical
issues related to digital
services and information
and communication technologies
(ICT). Prior to academia
he had worked as a software
engineer and practiced law.
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MARC
VAN LIESHOUT
Senior researcher, consultant
- TNO
Marc Van Lieshout (1957)
is working as senior researcher
and consultant at TNO since
February 2000. His field
of expertise is the study
of societal, policy and
research implications of
emerging ICTs in today’s
information society. Recently,
he finished a European-wide
assessment of the societal
implications of RFID. He
researched the ethical and
privacy implications of
RFID. Within TNO he is programme
manager of a knowledge programme
“Social and economic
implications of ICT. Having
finished his study in physics
Van Lieshout held tenure
as assistant professor at
the University of Nijmegen
from 1984 to 2000, teaching
and researching in the field
of Informatics and Society.
From 1995 to 1997 he was
also appointed at the Dutch
institute of Technology
Assessment, the Rathenau
Institute, where he led
a project on the role of
elderly people in the Information
Society. From 1997 to 1999
he participated in and co-ordinated
part of the European research
project Social Learning
in Multimedia at the University
of Maastricht, Faculty of
Cultural Sciences.
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