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\"Cover\"After two years of research on the ethical challenges of digitalisation and strategies on how to overcome them, the international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now published the final report.<\/p>\n

The HBI researchers Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz<\/a>, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann<\/a>, Martin Fertmann<\/a> and Vincent Hofmann<\/a> have been part of it.<\/p>\n

You can download the report here (PDF)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Excerpt from the Foreword<\/h2>\n

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed the ways in which we communicate and collaborate with each other, how entrepreneurs and businesses operate and innovate, how people express themselves and engage with the knowledge ecosystem, and how governments build systems and structures for and interact with their citizens. Today, digitalization is playing a major role in almost all areas of our lives. At their best, digital technologies can facilitate meaningful engagement among individuals, enable businesses to develop more equitable processes, support education and learning during COVID lockdowns, or help reflect on key spaces and what we as humans expect from them. At their worst, digital technologies exacerbate inequalities, amplify surveillance concerns, and strengthen existing power structures and asymmetries. As we grapple with the opportunities and challenges of technological development and deployment, it\u2019s crucial to understand the technologies themselves but more importantly to also develop a nuanced\u2014including a global, multi-sectoral, and interdisciplinary\u2014understanding of the underlying and overarching ethical dilemmas and priorities.<\/p>\n

Led by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University (BKC), the Digital Asia Hub (DAH) and the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research I Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)\u2014under the patronage of German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and supported by Stiftung Mercator\u2014and in collaboration with the Global Network of Internet & Society Centers (NoC), \u201cThe Ethics of Digitalization: From Principles to Practices\u201d project tackles some of the most pressing ethical challenges with the aim of advancing dialogue and action at the intersection of science, politics, digital economy, and civil society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-10215","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n- Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/10215\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After two years of research on the ethical challenges of digitalisation and strategies on how to overcome them, the international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now published the final report. 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