Center for Ethics of Science and Technology

About the CEST

The Center for Ethics of Science and Technology is a research unit at Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University. It is a virtual interdisciplinary center where faculty collaborate, not only within Chulalongkorn University, but with other universities and research institutes worldwide. The Center hosts Digital Divide Institute, a leading international think tank whose model of Meaningful Broadband is being applied by Asian governments to close Digital Divide. (More about the Digital Divide Institute) [More about the Center]

Events and Activities

International Workshop on "Ethics, Wellbeing and Meaningful Broadband," August 16-17, 2011, Room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University.

Craig Warren Smith of the Digital Divide Insitute is now a Research Fellow at the Center. The Center is also formally affiliated with the Digital Divide Institute.

People

The Center consists of a number of faculty members who are affiliated. They hail from a variety of disciplines... [more]

NEWS!!

วารสาร "ปัญญา" เพื่อการศึกษาวิจัยปรัชญาและพระพุทธศาสนา บรรณาธิการ -- ศ. ดร. สมภาร พรมทา -- ฉบับล่าสุด ปีที่ ๒ ฉบับที่ ๖ (มีนาคม ๒๕๕๕)

Report of the Meaningful Broadband Working Group - "Meaningful Broadband Report: Thailand 2015" by Craig W. Smith.

Please have your say on the policy of expanding broadband network to the middle income group of population in Thailand as part of making broadband "meaningful." Visit http://www.meaningfulbroadband.org/

Public Forum on Meaningful Broadband, November 26, 2009, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.

Projects

The Center engages in many research projects related to ethics of science and technology as well as other related areas such as science in society, technology and culture, and so on. For the ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project, please follow this link... [more]

News and Publications

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.

Contact

Location and contact persons of the Center...[more]