Center for Ethics of Science and Technology

Publications of the Center

News!!

Call for Papers - Social and Ethical Aspects of New and Emerging Technologies from an Asian Perspective, for the Journal Nanoethics. Deadline of abstract submission: October 15, 2011.

Presentation file on "Ethical Issues in Privacy and Data Protection in Asia", presented at the First Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Ethical Dimensions of Information Society, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 12-14, 2008.

All the papers presented at the International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002) can be downloaded here.

Call for Chapters - Genomics and Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Technologies and Advancements

Publication of "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" by Shantideva (The Thousand Stars Foundation Press). Cover of the book. The book is available at the Chula Book Center.

A new web page has been set up to collect the papers and presentation files by the members of the CEST. Now all the papers will be put here.

The CEST is proud to announce that it is not home of the Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies (CJBS), published by the Center for Buddhist Studies, Chulalongkorn University. The journal is edited by Somparn Promta. New! The Journal has been updated with the addition of Volume 4 (February 21, 2007).

By Soraj Hongladarom

Books

Editor. Computing and Philosophy in Asia. Forthcoming from the Cambridge Scholars Press. This is a collection of selected papers from the 2nd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference.

Translator. A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Shantideva (in Thai), 2007, translated from the edition translated by Alan and Vesna Wallace. The book is available from the Chulalongkorn Book Center.

Editor with Charles Ess. Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, published by Idea-Group, Inc., 2007.

Here is the description of the book: "Communication and commerce continue to connect people from different cultures through information technology. Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives is the single reference source to take a global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by information and communication technologies and their possible resolutions. The comprehensive chapters contained in this book describe the problems and possibilities of genuinely global information ethics, which are urgently needed as information and communication technologies continue their exponential growth. International experts from diverse backgrounds address both theoretical and culture-specific issues in explicit detail. This Premier Reference Source provides the most thorough examination of the information technology ethics field."

Editor. Death and Dying from the Perspectives of Religions and Science (in Thai), published by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology and the Thousand Stars Foundation, distributed by the Chulalongkorn University Book Center. Graphic file of the cover page.

First chapter of the book, written by Soraj Hongladarom.

Articles

"Bioinformatics, the Individual and Privacy: A Buddhist Perspective" by Soraj Hongladarom, and the Final Report of the ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project.

Analysis and Justification of Privacy from a Buddhist Perspective, in Soraj Hongladarom and Charles Ess, eds. Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, published by Idea-Group, Inc. Forthcoming.

Presented at Meetings and Conferences

The Asia-Pacific CAP Conference, Presented at the National Seminar on "Computing and Philosophy", Stella Maris College, Chennai, India, February 9-10, 2006

Metaphysics of Change and Continuity: Exactly what is changing and what gets continued?, presented at the International Conference on "Continuity + Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion", June 3-7, 2006, in Philadelphia, PA, USA, a program of the Metanexus Institute (www.metanexus.net)

Regulatory System of Research on the New Infectious Diseases, presented at the Workshop on Globalization and the New Epidemics: Ethics, Security and Policy Making, Brussels, 22-23 May 2006, organized by the Bioethics in Globalization Project and the European Commission.

By Krisana Kitiyadisai

Articles

Privacy rights and protection: foreign values in modern Thai context, Ethics and Information Technology (2005) 7:17-26.

Bridging the Digital Divide from a Buddhist Perspective with Implications for Public Policy, In John Weckert and Yeslam Al-Saggaf, eds. Computers and Philosophy 2003: Selected papers from the Computers and Philosophy (CAP) Conference, The Australian National University, 31 October - 2 November 2003, volume 37 in t he Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series. Published by the Australian Computers Society, Inc.

The Implementation of Information Technology in Reengineering the Thai Revenue Department, presented at the International Federation for Information Processing Conference 2000, May 24-26, 2000, Cape Town, South Africa.

Smart ID Card in Thailand from a Buddhist Perspective. MANUSYA: Special Issue on Computer Ethics Vol. 8(2004): 37-45.

Listings of impact factor of ISI journals in science, social science and the humanities, 2005.