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Africa Reader on Information Ethics
Capurro, R, Britz, JJ, Bothma, TJD, and Bester, BC. (Eds.) 2009. Africa Reader on Information Ethics. ISBN 978-0-620-45627-2. Pretoria: Department of Communication.
http://www.africainfoethics.org/african_reader.html
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Contents
Foreword
Tribute
Part 1
Chapter 1: Rafael Capurro - Information ethics for and from Africa
Chapter 2: Johannes J. Britz - The joy of sharing knowledge: But what if there is no knowledge to share? A critical reflection on human capacity building in Africa
Chapter 3: Alice K. Wafula-Kwake & Dennis N. Ocholla - The feasibility of ICT diffusion among rural African women: A case study of South Africa and Kenya
Chapter 4: Mohamed Mesbahi - The Third World and the paradox of the digital revolution
Chapter 5: Chibueze C. Udeani - Cultural diversity and globalisation: An intercultural hermeneutical (African) perspective
Chapter 6: Kgomotso H. Moahi - Globalisation, knowledge economy and the implication for indigenous knowledge
Chapter 7: Kenneth Einar Himma - The information gap, the digital divide, and the obligations of affluent nations
Chapter 8: Soraj Hongladarom - Information divide, information flow and global justice
Chapter 9: Franz Martin Wimmer - Cultural centrisms and intercultural polylogues in philosophy
Chapter 10: Albert K. Boekhorst - Towards an information democracy: A research agenda
Chapter 11: Charles Ess - Cybernetic pluralism in an emerging global information and computing ethics
Chapter 12: Azelarabe Lahkim Bennani - The public sphere’s metamorphosis: The triangular relation between the NGO, the state and globalisation
Chapter 13: Michael Nagenborg - Artificial moral agents: An intercultural perspective
Chapter 14: Bernd Frohmann - Assembling an African information ethics
Chapter 15: Peter Fleissner - On the ambivalence of information and communication technologies
Part 2
Chapter 16: Patrick Ngulube - The nature and accessibility of e-government in sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 17: Toni Carbo - Information rights: Trust and human dignity in e-government
Chapter 18: Jacques C. du Plessis - The spirit of open access to information as a key pillar in the African Renaissance
Chapter 19: John N. Gathegi - Intellectual property, traditional resources rights and natural law: A clash of cultures
Chapter 20: Peter Johan Lor - International advocacy for information ethics: The role of IFLA
Chapter 21: Anthony Löwstedt - Rights versus diversity? The accelerated extinction of languages and cultures as an aspect of globalisation trends
Chapter 22: Jacob Emmanuel Mabe - Security thought in Africa in the context of global ethics
Chapter 23: Shana R. Ponelis - Implications of social justice for the pricing of information goods
Chapter 24: Paul Sturges - What is this absence called transparency?
Chapter 25: Marsha Woodbury - Information integrity in Africa: Exploring information corruption issues
Chapter 26: Dennis N. Ocholla - Marginalised knowledge: An agenda for indigenous knowledge development and integration with other forms of knowledge
Chapter 27: Sandra Braman - The ourobouros of intellectual property: Ethics, law, and policy in Africa
Chapter 28: Jameleddine Ben Abdeljelil - The discourse of identity in the Maghreb between difference and universality
Chapter 29: Netiva Caftori - African women and the Internet
Part 3
Chapter 30: Kendra S. Albright - AIDS and culture: The case for an African information identity
Chapter 31: Hennie Lötter - Are ICTs prerequisites for the eradication of poverty?
Chapter 32: Isaac Milton Namwanja Kigongo-Bukenya - Towards professionalism and commitment in Africa: The case for theory and practice of information ethics in Uganda
Chapter 33: Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha - E-governance in eastern and southern Africa: A webometric study of the governments’ websites
Chapter 34: Justine Johnstone - Towards a creativity research agenda in information ethics
Chapter 35: Sarah B. Kaddu - Information ethics: A student’s perspective
Chapter 36: York W. Bradshaw, Johannes J. Britz, Theo J.D. Bothma & Coetzee Bester - Using information technology to create global classrooms: Benefits and ethical dilemmas
Chapter 37: Tassilo Pellegrini - Co-production on the Web: Social software as a means of collaborative value creation in Web-based infrastructures
Chapter 38: Jangawe Msuya - Challenges and opportunities in the protection and of indigenous knowledge in Africa