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September 2005

 Table of Contents

• Membership of CCE
• Useful Links
• Events
• Projects
• Feedback

Members

CCE committee members

Chair,  Oliver Burmeister, oburmeister@swin.edu.au

Deputy Chair, John Weckert, jweckert@CSU.edu.au

Barry de Ferranti, bdeferra@bigpond.net.au

Mike Bowern, mike.bowern@anu.edu.au

Craig McDonald, Craig.McDonald@canberra.edu.au

Andrew Meyenn, Andrew.Meyenn@wesleycollege.net

When the CCE was established it was recognised that there would be a strong association with the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE)  http://aice.net.au , many of whose members have a keen interest in ethical matters to do with computers, but would not qualify as ACS members, because they are professionals in other fields, such as law, agriculture, engineering, graphical design, and more.

To enable AiCE members and others who want to contribute to the work of the CCE to become members of the CCE, the ACS only requires committee members to hold ACS membership.

Useful Links 

• The Australian Institute of Computer Ethics, http://xindi.bf.rmit.edu.au/aice/
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/
• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group 9.2, Computers and Social Accountability, http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/cadresIFIP.html
  The CCE Deputy Chair is the incumbent ACS representative on this IFIP committee.
• Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute, http://seeri.etsu.edu/

Events

AiCE Conference

AiCEis holding its bi-annual conference on computer ethics in Geelong on Sep 26. The ACS is one of the sponsors of the event. All ACS members and interested parties are encouraged to attend. For more details please visit http://www.deakin.edu.au/~mwarren/aice2005/

Monthly Conversations

The Melbourne Chapter of AiCE holds monthly “Conversations”. These are held on the first Tuesday of the month at the city campus of RMIT. The conversations start at 5.30 pm and comprise a short presentation by an invited speaker, followed by discussion of whatever the topic is for that night. Meetings finish over drinks at about 7 pm.

The topics for the remainder of the year are:

• Oct: Feedback on the AiCE conference for those unable to attend. Session chaired by Frans Koomen, who leads the Melbourne Chapter.
• Nov: An update on the ACS Code of Ethics review process, chaired by Oliver Burmeister (the CCE Chair).
• Dec: Christmas break-up.

Ongoing work of CCE

The CCE is currently involved in the first major revision of the ACS Code of Ethics since 1985! For several months the CCE has been involved in an informal process for reviewing that code and is about to move to a formal phase for it. That formal phase will be driven by the CCE. It will seek wide ACS and ICT community input. Already people are asking to make submissions to the process and volunteering to be involved. If you feel you have a contribution to make, please contact the Chair of the CCE.

Feedback

Chair, Committee on Computer Ethics,  Oliver Burmeister, oburmeister@swin.edu.au

Director, Community Affairs Board   Rathika Suresh rsuresh@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au