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Issues in Informing Science and information technology Volume 7, 2010 The Role of IT in the Ethics of Globalization Robert A. Schultz Professor Emeritus, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, USA Abstract The purpose of this paper is to determine the ethical role of information technology within glob-alization. Globalization is considered to be ethically neutral with both good and bad aspects. The question is how to implement it ethically. The method used in the paper is reflective equilibrium which is to make less general intuitive ethical judgements consistent with an ethical theory. The social contract theory of John Rawls provides a starting point. My proposed global ethical theory is a pair of social contracts, one for relations between nations and one for participants in the global economy. This theory is shown to be better than some popular alternatives. Finally, IT pro-fessionals turn out to have a special role in guaranteeing that these social contracts are workable.
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 7, 2010 The Role of IT in the Ethics of Globalization Robert A. Schultz Professor Emeritus, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, USA
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