3rd Meeting of the International Center for Information Ethics – ICIE
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On October 20th and 21st, 2022, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology – Ibict hosted, in Rio de Janeiro, the third meeting of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) – Latin America and Caribbean Chapter. The event was organized by two IBICT research groups, Philosophical Perspectives on Information (Perfil-i) and Critical Studies on Information, Technology and Social Organization (Escritos), coordinated, respectively, by Marco Schneider and Arthur Bezerra, senior researchers at the Institute .
The director of IBICT, Cecília Leite, and the coordinator of Teaching and Research, Gustavo Saldanha, participated in the event’s opening panel, alongside ICIE members from Canada, South Africa, Jamaica and Brazil. After two remote editions, the first in 2020 and the second in 2021, due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 3rd Meeting marked the return of ICIE activities in person, with researchers and the public gathered in the Center’s auditorium Brazilian Physical Research Conference (CBPF) and entry was free.
The event had panel discussions with participants from different Latin American countries, such as Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina, in addition to the launch of books and the film “In(com)formation” (see below for the complete program). During the first day, researchers Marco Schneider and Arthur Bezerra took office as president and vice-president of the Center, starting a new Strategic Plan for the following four years.
At the end, the Rio Charter was read, formulated the day before the start of the event, by researchers and students from the Perfil-i and Escritos research groups, with signatures collected throughout the program. According to Arthur Bezerra, the drafting of the Rio Charter was a suggestion by Rafael Capurro, founder of ICIE. “Following the tradition of previous editions of the ICIE, the Charter is a declaration of the Center’s principles and goals, and its content will be related to information ethics and social justice, themes of the meeting”, said the researcher.
Read the Letter of Rio here.
Check out the complete schedule of the 3rd ICIE meeting:
October 19th – Oliveira Castro Auditorium
10:00 – Event Opening Coffee
10:30 – 12:00 – Working meeting with in-person speakers + ICIE AL Caribe to develop the Rio Charter
14:00 – 17:00 – Working meeting with in-person speakers + ICIE AL Caribe to develop the Rio Charter
October 20th – Auditorium (116 seats)
10:00 – Event Opening Coffee
10:30 – Opening ceremony: Cecília Leite, director of IBICT; Gustavo Saldanha, Coepe coordinator; Cordel Green (ICIE Jamaica); Jared Bielby (ICIE Canada),
Announcement from the new ICIE board + Rachel Fisher (ICIE South Africa)
Marco Schneider and Arthur Bezerra with presentation of the Strategic Plan of the New ICIE Presidency.
11:30 – 12:00 – Partnerships Table: Ana Regina Barros Rêgo Leal (REDE) + Ricardo Pimenta (Larhud)
14:00 – 15:30 – VEPEInfo table
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 – Screening of the Film Information(com)formation
17:00 – 18:00 – Autograph afternoon with the presence of the authors with a cocktail.
October 21st – Auditorium (116 seats)
10:00 – 12:00 | Mediation: Marielle Barros de Moraes (UFF) – Information Desk
Approaching a political philosophy of information – Ariel Morán Reyes (Mexico)
The ethical challenges of organizing and representing information in times of fake news – José Augusto Guimarães (SP-Brazil)
“Informational Justice and social appropriation of ICT” – Maximiliano Rodríguez Fleitas (Uruguay)
13:30 – 15:30 | Mediation: Anna Cristina Brisola (Perfil-i) – Mesa Comunicação
“Information quality and ethics in contexts of digital convergence: a reflection on the analysis of media content and the productive routines of journalists” Esteban Andrés Zunino (Argentina)
Disinformation x information: multidimensional network actions – Ana Regina Barros Rêgo Leal (PI-Brazil)
“Infocracy, is there room for ethics in the information avalanche of electoral campaigns?” – Karina Olarte (Bolivia)
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 – Closing with Carta do Rio, with the presence of Rafael Capurro (Uruguay/Germany)
17:00 – closing show (fanfare / latin jazz)