TECHNOLOGY Flashcards
Technology comes from the Greek word
“techne” and “logos”
_________ means a discourse on arts.
Technology
Total number of internet users
73.91 million
internet users as a percentage of total population
67.0 %
annual change in the number of internet users
+ 6.1 %
+ 4.2 million
average daily time users aged 16 to 64 spend using the internet
10H 56M
percentage of users accessing the internet via mobile devices
96.5%
Ethical Dilemmas
Gambling
Bullies
Avatars
Identity Thieves
XXX Sites
Illegal Activity
Illegal Downloads
Hackers and Warez
Predators
Drugs
Texting/Sexting
Technology should improve your life… not become your life.
Billy Cox
___________ in the face of scientific and technological advancements are critical factors in one’s journey toward eudaimonia or good life.
Human rights
are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death.
Human rights
______________________ must be at the core of continued scientific and technological progress and development.
Protecting the well-being and upholding the dignity of the human person
a senior lecturer in Political Theory and History of Religions at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
S. Romi Mukherjee
explained a Human Right-Based Approach to science, technology, and development.
S. Romi Mukherjee
Mukherjee identified science as “a socially organized human activity which is ___________ and shaped by organizational structures and procedures”.
value-laden
Mukherjee listed some of the most important documents that center on a human rights-based approach to science, development, and technology.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 27)
UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers – 1974 (Article 4)
UNESCO Declaration on the Use of Scientific Knowledge – 1999 (Article 33)
This document affirms everyone’s right to participate in and benefit from scientific advances, and be protected from scientific misuse. The right to the benefits of science comes under the domain of ‘culture’, so it is usually examined from a cultural rights perspective.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 27)
This document affirms that all advances in scientific and technological knowledge should solely be geared towards the welfare of the global citizens, and calls upon members of the state to develop necessary protocol and policies to monitor and secure this objective. Countries are asked to show that science and technology are integrated into policies that aim to ensure a more humane and just society.
UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers – 1974 (Article 4)
This declaration encompasses issues such as pollution-free production, efficient resource use, biodiversity protection, and brain drains.
UNESCO Declaration on the Use of Scientific Knowledge – 1999 (Article 33)
Why is Human Right-Based Approach Important?
A human rights-based approach to science, technology, and development sets the parameters for the appraisal of how science, technology, and development promote human well-being.
“This approach can form the very heart of sustainable futures”
– Mukherjee (2012)
Human rights should be integral to the journey toward the ultimate good.
They should guide humans not only to flourish as individual members of society, but also to assist each other in flourishing collectively as a society.
They may function as the __________- , particularly by protecting the weak, poor, and vulnerable from the deficiencies and excesses of science and technology.
‘golden’ mean
