ALIFE Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Artificial life
Design for a common world: On ethical agency and cognitive justice
Ethics and Information Technology
Kheti: mobile multimedia in an agricultural co-operative
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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This paper contrasts two approaches to knowledge sharing for socio-economic development to examine how assumptions about knowledge are reflected in computer-based information systems. The paper argues that socio-technical systems for global knowledge sharing posses a bias resulting from choices about technology and from assumptions about knowledge, and that this bias may adversely affect the diversity of knowledge. To overcome this bias, the concept of cognitive justice is proposed and, on this basis, a framework suggested to guide the design of information systems based on a principle of the equal validity of all knowledges.