EN] Does your organisation need a digital ethicist?
Creating ethical and responsible digital technologies is often easier said than done. It requires a reflective and structured process and a different way of approaching the development of the technology. One way organisations have dealt with this, is by hiring Digital Ethicists. This profile is responsible for supporting the development of ethical technologies, processes and cultures within an organisation.
Should your organisation hire a Digital Ethicist as well? What about SMEs? For them, it might not be feasible to hire such a highly specialized profile. One alternative is to ensure one or more employees have acquired some of the competences needed to obtain trustworthy AI. For this reason, the Knowledge Center is working on the development of a competency model. The model describes the ethical, legal and societal knowledge and skills that are needed for the development of responsible data-driven and AI-applications. Anyone working in the field of digital technology, from project managers to data scientists and interaction designers can use this model to develop their skills.
In this Data-Date, which will be in English, we give the floor to two professionals who are working as Digital Ethicists. How do they operate within the companies they work in? What is their impact on the development process? Also, we will talk about what are important competencies for a data-driven future and the work the Knowledge Centre Data & Society has done with regard to the competency model. How has it been conceptualised and how can it be used, for instance, by HR-staff and others?
