Current initiatives
Here is the good news: there are a lot of good, interesting initiatives around us, addressing the many concerns raised with software ethics (technical, economical, social, philosophical). They scale from small, local fab labs to international associations, to informal groups communicating via mailing lists and forums.
- The RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) has many actions regarding diversity and ethical considerations in their task.
- The critical engineering manifesto.
Technologia Incognita
There is a humongous list of references for ethics in tech on the Hackers tribes page in Technologia Incognita.
Networked systems Ethics
This is a project from the university of Oxford: Ethics in Networked Systems Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy reasoning for Internet Engineering. The wiki is worth a visit too.
Collectives
- Rise up and their list of radical servers that provide independent IT services to individuals and collectives.
- La quadrature du net