Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research
Co-located with ACM SIGCOMM’15
Friday August 21st 2015
London, UK
Workshop location
The workshop will take place in Huxley Building, rooms 341/342. For directions inside Imperial College check the campus map (building number 13).
Program
Friday, August 21, 2015
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Introductory talk to set the stage
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Three presentations as introduction to methods, technology, and ethics reasoning (10 mins each): Forgive Us Our SYN’s: Technical and Ethical Considerations for Measuring Internet Censorship,
Jedidiah Crandall (University of New Mexico); Masashi Crete-Nishihata (University of Toronto); Jeffrey Knockel (University of New Mexico)
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High Fidelity, High Risk, High Reward: Using High-Fidelity Networking Data in Ethically Sound Research,
Mohammad Taha Khan (University of Illinois at Chicago); Chris Kanich (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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RoboCode ethicists – Privacy-friendly robots, an ethical responsibility of engineers?
Christoph Lutz (University of St. Gallen); Aurelia Tamo (University of Zurich)
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Breakout exercise to set the scene (30 mins)
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Short group presentations ( 15 mins)
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Three paper presentations (10 mins each): Addressing Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers,
Craig Partridge (Raytheon BBN Technologies); Mark Allman (ICSI)
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Ethical Concerns for Censorship Measurement,
Ben Jones (Princeton); Roya Ensafi (Princeton); Nick Feamster (Princeton); Vern Paxson (ICIR), and Nick Weaver (ICSI)
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Some challenges for ethics in social network research.
Luke Hutton (St Andrews St Andrews); Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews)
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Second breakout exercise, based on issues raised, applied to case paper(s) (30 mins).
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Presentation of breakouts & discussion (30 mins)
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Four paper presentations (10 mins each): Does the Internet deserve everybody?
Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University); Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary, University of London); Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge)
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Ethical Challenges in the MOSAIC 2B project,
Adriano Galati (Disney Research Zurich); Stefan Mangold (Disney Research Zurich); Melani Prinsloo (Infusion Knowledged); Danie Behr (EPI-USE Africa); Luis Almeida (Associação CCG/zgdv)
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Ethics in Networked Systems Research: Considerations from practical examples (Chokepoint Project)
Ruben Bloemgarten (Chokepoint Project); Pascal Haakmat (Chokepoint Project)
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Ethical challenges in collaborative storytelling.
Dr. Mu Mu (Lancaster University)
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Third exercise, based on issues raised, applied to case paper(s) (30 mins)
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Presentation of breakouts & discussion (20 mins)
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Reflections on Vulnerability Disclosure
Enno Rey (ERNW)
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Ethics Research & Development Summary Cyber-security Research Ethics Decision Support (CREDS) Tool
Erin Kenneally (UC San Diego); Marina Fomenkov (UC San Diego)
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Ethics in Networked Systems Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy reasoning for Internet Engineering
Ben Zevenbergen (University of Oxford)
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Open discussion (40 mins)
A full day workshop titled “Ethics in Networked Systems Research” will be held at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 in London. This multidisciplinary workshop will bring together two distinct groups of researchers:
- Computer scientists, network scientists and other technical researchers who are interested in the ethical and legal aspects of their work;
- Researchers studying the various ethical, social scientific and legal aspects of data-driven projects in the field of computer and data communication networks.
This workshop seeks 1 to 4 page summaries, focussing on ethical considerations of papers, publications and projects from the two disciplines, for example:
- Technical research in the field of computer and data communication networks that either operates in an ethical grey zone, collects and processes personal data/personal identifiable information, or has been rejected from another venue on ethical grounds;
- Ethical, social scientific or legal research that reflects on - or aims to guide - technical research and projects in the field of computer and data communication networks, especially an analysis to minimise the potential harm whilst enabling a broad range of Internet research to be conducted.
Selected authors and invited speakers will present their work, which will be followed by a structured discussion. The workshop will also facilitate an interactive session in which participants will split into multidisciplinary groups and address emerging ethical dilemmas in Internet measurement and information controls research, partly based on the submitted summaries. This session will be informed by a website (currently under development), that presents ethical guidelines for the fields of Internet measurement and information control. Papers submitted to this workshop will not be archived in the formal sense, so authors can submit papers elsewhere, or submit summaries of previously accepted papers.
Important Dates
March 31st, 2015
Paper submission deadline
April 30th, 2015
Paper acceptance notification
- Organisers
Prof Ian Brown
Oxford Internet Institute
Dr Joss Wright
Oxford Internet Institute
Bendert Zevenbergen
LLM. (Oxford Internet Institute)
Erin Kenneally
University of California San Diego, Center for Applied Internet Research, & Elchemy, Inc.
Malavika Jayaram
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard + Centre for Internet & Society, India
Allen Gunn
Aspiration Tech
Meredith Whittaker
Measurement Lab
Christopher Wilson
the engine room
Stuart Schechter
Microsoft Research
Please email papers to bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk