*45° Mercoledì di Nexa*
The Onlife Initiative: Rethinking Public Spaces in the Digital
Transition
http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-45*
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*Mercoledì 12 settembre 2012
ore 18 - 20*
(2° mercoledì del mese)
Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (primo piano)
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<http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-45> societal process arising from
the deployment and uptake of ICTs. Indeed, with the current
multiplication of devices, sensors, robots, and applications, and
these emerging technologies, we have entered a new phase of the
information age, a phase where the *hybridization between bits and
other forms of reality is so deep that it radically changes the
human condition* in at least four ways:
- by blurring of the distinction between reality and virtuality;
- by blurring of the distinction between human/machine/nature;
- by reversing from scarcity to abundance, when it comes to information;
- by reversing from the primacy of entities over interactions to the
primacy of interactions over entities.
As part of the Digital Futures
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital_futures/index_en.htm>
project launched by the *Directorate General Information Society and
Media*, with a view to inspire future strategic choices of both the
DG INFSO and the *European Commission*, the Onlife Initiative
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital_futures/workshops/concept_r…>
intends to explore the extent to which the digital transition
impacts societal expectations towards policy making.
*Speakers*:
*Nicole Dewandre* is advisor for societal issues in the Directorate
General Communications Networks, Content and Technology
<http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/index_en.htm> (DG CONNECT). She
studied applied physics, engineering and economics at the University
of Louvain, operations research at the University of California
(Berkeley) and philosophy at the Free University of Brussels (ULB).
She entered the European Commission in 1983, working as a scientific
officer in the Directorate General for Research, in the field of
prospective, linking societal concerns with technology policy until
1986. She became a member of the Central Advisory Group and then the
Forward Study Unit, dealing with strategic analysis of research and
industrial policy for the President of the Commission (1986-1992).
In 1993, she supported the Belgian Presidency of the European Union
in the areas of industry, energy, and consumer policies. Back in DG
Research (94), she has been developing the "Women and Science"
activities (97-03) and she has contributed to the opening of the EU
research policy to STS and civil society(04-06), before being in
charge of the "sustainable development" unit that has been put in
place in DG Research between 2007 and 2010.
*Luciano Floridi* is Professor in Philosophy at the University of
Hertfordshire, where he holds the Chair in Philosophy of Information
and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics. Floridi is
Fellow of St Cross College at Oxford University. He is considered
the founder of the Philosophy of Information. In 2009 he was the
first philosopher to be nominated Gauss Professor by the Academy of
Sciences of Gottingen. His two most recent books are "The Philosophy
of Information
<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Methodology/?view=…>"
(Oxford University Press, 2011) and "Information - A Very Short
Introduction
<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/EngineeringTechnology/Electri…>"
(Oxford University Press, 2010).
*Ugo Pagallo* is Full Professor in Philosophy of Law at the
University of Torino, Law School, since 2000, Faculty at the Center
for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, U.K., Visiting
Professor of Comparative Privacy Law at Georgetown Law School in
Washington, D.C., and Faculty Fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet
& Society at Politecnico di Torino. He is editor of the Digitalica
<http://www.giappichelli.it/home/ricercaCol.aspx?colcod=G97> series
published by Giappichelli in Turin and co-editor of the AICOL
<http://www.aicol.eu/> series by Springer. Since 2008 member of the
Programme Committee of ETHICOMP. In addition to numerous essays in
scholarly journals like Journal of Business Ethics, AI & Society,
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Hobbes
Studies, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Apuntes filosóficos, and so
forth, he is the author of eight monographs. His main interests are
AI & Law, Network theory, Robotics, and Information Technology Law
(specially data protection law and copyright).
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Suggested Readings:*
* The Onlife Initiative's Background Paper
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital_futures/workshops/concept_r…>
* L. Floridi/, Infosfera. Etica e filosofia nell'età
dell'informazione
<http://www.giappichelli.it/home/978-88-348-9541-2,3489541.asp1>/,
Giappichelli, Torino 2009
*Responsabile Comunicazione*
*Giuseppe Futia*
Nexa Center for Internet & Society
Politecnico di Torino
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
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