CISCHR is a not-for-profit organisation based in Cwmdu ( Rhiangoll Valley ) in the Black Mountains region of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. It is dedicated to promoting the international study of cyberethics, through quality research, teaching, publication and advocacy. More specifically, the Centre has been established to encourage informed public debate on human rights issues that relate to the actual or potential misuse of information and communication technologies as well as relevant issues concerning social inclusion.
CISCHR currently focuses on FIVE main areas:
» the undertaking and commissioning of discrete pieces of research relevant to the mission of the Centre
» the promotion of cyberethics as a distinct discipline through public lectures and ‘bespoke seminars’ with
educational institutions, statutory bodies and voluntary organisations
» the provision of educational resources on cyberethics at secondary and tertiary level for those engaged in:
• the teaching of extended IT courses
• the teaching of cyberethics as an option within departments of philosophy or humanity
schools
» the development of continuously updated databases in the area of cyberethics
» general consultancy work on cyberethics and human rights – including expert witness preparation and
representation in legal actions
In 2002 CISCHR established strategic links with relevant schools, departments and research centres at Cardiff University (ranked 7th in the UK in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise) including the Centre for Applied Ethics, the School of Computer Science and Cardiff Law and Business Schools. It is also a participant member of CCELS (Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society).
The Centre’s current Director is Dr Ian M. Kenway, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Church of England’s Board for Social Responsibility (1988-1993) and Director of the Centre for Theology and Society at the University of Essex (1993-99). In 2004 he was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Ethics and ICT at Cardiff University and in October 2006 Co-ordinator of CCELS and, more recently, Network Facilitator of the international Human Stem Cells Ethics Network.
Legal Disclaimer: CISCHR is fundamentally committed to the values of personal expression, privacy and freedom of information but takes absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for the content of commended external web sites. Legal actions against this published site are welcome, under appropriate national or international law, if or whenever content is knowingly and persistently published as fraudulent or grossly misleading.
© CISCHR Updated 8 November, 2008