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Books on ethical issues with global relevance and contextual perspectives. Each volume includes contributions from at least two continents and with two editors, often one from the global South and one from the global North.
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How to build digital trust? : Swiss Digital Trust WhitepaperTrust is a key ethical value and virtue in all human interactions. Trust is also a key requirement and a key challenge in the digital world. In September 2019, the first Swiss Global Digital Summit took place in Geneva, Switzerland, to provide a platform to promote in-depth discus-sions on “Ethics and Fairness in the Age of Digital Transformation” and aiming at building digital trust in the digital world. As a result, the Swiss Digital Initiative (SDI) was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020. It is supported by over two dozen high-ranking personalities and institutions from academic, private and pub-lic sector. In 2021, the Swiss “Digital Trust Label” was launched. The following whitepaper analyses the needs of building trust in the digital world. The editors/Christoph Stückelberger.
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African Union data policy frameworkThe African Union, representing its 55 member states from the whole African continent, endorsed its “African Union Data Policy Framework” by the AU Executive Council during its 40th Ordinary Session on 2-3 February (Ref EX.CL/Dec.1144/XL) and published in February 2022. The below excerpt are Executive Summary (pp VI-X) and the recommendations and actions of chapter V (18-64). (The editor Christoph Stückelberger).