Moral and Legal Decks
Difficulty Level:
Method Overview
Moral and Legal Deck cards are designed to enable practitioners to reflect on the legal, ethical, technical and social implications of new information technologies.
Framework of ethics used:
consequentialist
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
You will need:
Materials: The card Moral-IT or Legal-IT cards
Participants: play as a team
Steps (Urquhart & Craigon, 2021):
- Defining the technology
- Defining the main ethical risk
- Define the associated risks
- Ranking the lists from the most important to the least
- Identify and safeguards that might help to mitigate the risks
- Record and annotate the safeguards to explain why the reasons for the safeguards were selected
- Consider and document the challenges that might prevent the implementation of the safeguards
- Discussion of findings from the session
Further Reading
Citation
2018. The Moral-IT & Legal-IT Decks. https://lachlansresearch.com/the-moral-it-legal-it-decks/. Accessed: 2020-5-12.
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