{"id":7086,"date":"2019-01-02T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2019-01-08T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T10:58:45","slug":"tech-ethics-new-years-resolution-dont-build-software-you-will-regret-linux-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/tech-ethics-new-years-resolution-dont-build-software-you-will-regret-linux-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Ethics New Year\u2019s Resolution: Don\u2019t Build Software You Will Regret | Linux.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At The New Stack, we talk a lot about <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/day-software-dies\/\">avoiding technical debt<\/a>, but what about the ethical debt? Let\u2019s begin by attempting to define just what ethical technical delivery even is. Black Pepper Software\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/samuel-warner\">Sam Warner<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/goodtechconf.org\/\">Good Tech Conf<\/a> \u2014 a conference which focused on technology for social good \u2014 simplified this great university philosophy topic, saying ethical software:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>causes no negative social impact<\/li>\n<li>doesn\u2019t make the world worse to live in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/coedethics.org\/\">Coed Ethics<\/a>, another conference dedicated to tech ethics that <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewstack.io\/are-programmers-ethically-and-legally-responsible-for-their-code\/\">The New Stack covered earlier this year<\/a>, Doteveryone\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/samcatbrown\">Sam Brown<\/a> echoed Warner, saying \u201cResponsible technology considers the social impact it creates and seeks to understand and minimalize its potential unintended consequences.\u201d Doteveryone as an organization is dedicated to supporting responsible technology as a key business driver for positive and inclusive growth, innovation, and trust in technology.<\/p>\n<p>But should those of us building the future\u2019s code feel obligated to contribute something toward social good? Warner argues we should go even further than that and contribute to work that benefits the most amount of people in a significant way.<\/p>\n<p>So, if this is our objective, where do we begin?<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/tech-ethics-new-years-resolution-dont-build-software-you-will-regret\/\">The New Stack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux.com\/news\/tech-ethics-new-years-resolution-dont-build-software-you-will-regret-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The New Stack, we talk a lot about avoiding technical debt, but what about the ethical debt? Let\u2019s begin by attempting to define just what ethical technical delivery even is. Black Pepper Software\u2019s Sam Warner at the Good Tech Conf \u2014 a conference which focused on technology for social good \u2014 simplified this great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/tech-ethics-new-years-resolution-dont-build-software-you-will-regret-linux-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tech Ethics New Year\u2019s Resolution: Don\u2019t Build Software You Will Regret | Linux.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}