Informatics and professional responsibility

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dc.contributor.authorGotterbarn, D. W.en
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-24T13:33:42Z
dc.date.available2008-11-24T13:33:42Z
dc.date.issued2001-07-01en
dc.descriptionMany problems in software development can be traced to a narrow understanding of professional responsibility. This paper examines ways in which software developers have tried to avoid accepting responsibility for their work. After cataloguing various types of responsibility avoidance, an expanded concept of positive responsibility is introduced. It is argued that the adoption of this sense of positive responsibility will reduce many problems in software development. This provocative paper continues to have impact most recently being reprinted as a book chapter in Computer Ethics, ed. John Weckert, Ashgate 2007.en
dc.identifier.citationGotterbarn, D.W. (2001) Informatics and professional responsibility. Science and Engineering Ethics, 7(2), pp. 221-230
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-001-0043-5
dc.identifier.issn1353-3452en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/233
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.researchgroupCentre for Computing and Social Responsibility
dc.subjectRAE 2008
dc.subjectUoA 23 Computer Science and Informatics
dc.titleInformatics and professional responsibilityen
dc.typeArticleen

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