[Equal] urgent Researcher position in namur belgium for etica and egais european projects

[Class, Christina]

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**laboratory for ethical governance of information technology

**engages

Under the direction of Prof. Philippe Goujon *
* ( http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html )


**_A researcher (16 months 100% - M/F)
**
*beginning of october 2010 end 28/02/2012 (total 16 month)


**Research project *

Research lies within the scope of two European projects. Those projects
investigate ethical governance in EU research projects with the goal of
providing a framework for improved governance mechanisms that will
address potential ethical issues arising from new and emerging
technologies. Studying current governance arrangements in actual ICT
projects (and in particular in Ambient Intelligence project) will help
to produce a better understanding of the efficiency and limits of
current ethics governance. This will be applied to the relevant ethical
issues identified which will lead to a recommendation of successful
governance arrangements that will address ethical issues in emerging
ICTs before or as they arise. The recommendations for individual issues
will be used to develop general policy recommendations.

The researcher's work will include: Review of ICT ethics governance -
Research on ICT ethics governance in current European projects -
Evaluation of effectiveness of current governance arrangements -
Application of suitable governance arrangements to most relevant issues
identified - Evaluation of viability of suggested governance arrangements

**Qualifications*
*_/* high level master(orPh.d. ) from philosophy or social sciences
(with a good knowledge concerning ethics) with a strong interest in the
problems involved in social integration, ethics and the governorship of
new technologies.

**Necessary qualities **

· available, open-minded;
· Scientific rigor and motivation for research;
· Efficiency in the work and capacity to understand theoretical
developments;
· Perfect knowledge of power point;
· Perfect spoken and written English.
- the ability to work as part of a team
- the ability to produce written material of publishable standard


**Environment of research *
*- Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
(http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/)
- Computer sciences department (http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/inf
<http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/inf>)
- an international network of 15 European labs expert in the field


*
*Procedure of recruitment *
*CV
Interview (tel)and skype video
Test

CV and accompanying letter of motivation to be sent **before 10
september*(but the sooner is better), 2010 _by mail, post or fax_* to

Professor Philippe Goujon
rue Grandgagnage, 21
5000 - Namur , Belgium
E-mail : pgo at info.fundp.ac.be

Phone (Cellular) : +32 497 03 50 12
Fax : +32 81 72 49 67

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Dr. Christina B. Class, Assistant Professor

German-Jordanian University
PO Box 35247
Amman 11180
Jordan

phone: +962 6 5300 666 ext 828

christina.class at gju.edu.jo
www.gju.edu.jo
www.cclass.ch