Software Ethics
Presentations
Artificial Pancreas System: #WeAreNotWaiting in Healthcare
What happens when an open source community develops around a group of patients who are frustrated with their medical devices? You end up with an artificial pancreas (of course!). Dana Lewis, a founder of the open source artificial pancreas (OpenAPS) movement, discusses open source innovation in...
Past Presentations
Data, GDPR & Privacy: Doing It "Right" Without Losing It All
We all know someone (or maybe you're that person) that tries to live off the data grid as much as possible. They don't participate in grocery store rewards programs; ad blockers are turned on; cookies disabled; they wouldn't be caught dead on social media. They value their data to an extreme......
Spurring The Ethical Imagination
How can individuals incorporate ethical decision-making and identify ethical dilemmas in their work with data? Whether you are a developer, data scientist, program manager, or leader of an organization, come to this workshop to explore your ethical imagination around data use. If you’re writing...
Organizing for Your Ethical Principles
Our job as engineers does not stop with eliminating technical defects and ensuring high reliability. Engineers of all kinds must ensure their work serves the public good. A service that reliably harms, exacerbates injustices, or excludes marginalized groups is not a service worth building and...
Interviews
Data, GDPR & Privacy: Doing It "Right" Without Losing It All
What’s the focus of the work you do today?
I am a VP of products at SparkPost and I head up the product team. Product at SparkPost falls under the technology organization, and we partner with other teams such as engineering, compliance, and customer success. My role as head of product is to look at the SparkPost service as a whole, not just the features and functions that we...
Read Full InterviewOrganizing for Your Ethical Principles
What does organizing your ethical principle mean?
I can't tell you what your ethical principles are. I think that it’s important for you to figure out what is important to you. You have to figure out what you value, and what things you perceive as right or wrong.
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