Ethics in the information age...

We could meet in The Hague at the Peace Palace.

With: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/compulsive-gaming---something-to-be-worried-about3f/5822716

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/how-to-help-the-paedophile-who-seeks-help/5822510

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/robots---not-about-to-take-over2c-but-certainly-getting-smarter/5822466

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=688

Tuesday 11 November 2014 17:00 - 18:30

 Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS

✏ Please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1865 287210.

Independent professionals and freelancers represent a sizeable and growing part of the workforce nowadays. At the same time the organization of work is changing. Project-based work is becoming more frequent and outsourcing more widespread. In some sectors, firms are also radically changing the way in which they gather and implement new ideas into products and processes by adopting a form of open innovation. Software-intensive organizations, for instance, increasingly deploy open source software in their products and services. Open source software has been studied intensively by scholars. Surprisingly little is known about the professional status of the contributors to this software, which anyone can modify. Nevertheless there are many indications that freelancers played important roles, which this paper will describe in more detail.