Arnold Bregt GRS21306 SDI course Geo-information and Ethics
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5 Contents What is Ethics? Ethics in Research Geo-information and Ethics What are the boundaries?
6 What is Ethics? Ethics is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality. What is good and bad; right and wrong
7 Ethics Plays a key role in daily life and professions: Journalism Medicine Military Research and … Geo-information science
8 A few examples Can you give examples of “good and bad” or “right and wrong” in Science?
9 Case 1 You are a researcher and have conducted a research for a company with negative results for a product of a company What will you do?
10 Ethics in Research Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice: Scrupulousness Reliability Verifiability Impartiality Independence
11 Scrupulousness
12 Reliability
13 Verifiability
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16 Geo-information and Ethics
17 Case - data You are asked to do analysis but you know the data is not good. What will you do?
18 Case - software You are offered copyright protected software from a friend What will you do?
19 Case - data You are offered a dataset with is copyright protected. What will you do?
20 Case - analysis You have performed a GI analysis for a governmental body. They do not like the conclusions What will you do?
21 GIS Ethics Source: Blakemore and Longhorn, 2004
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