Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc and his former research assistant Ms. Kathleen Pastrana will present a research paper on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) using the framework of the computer ethics expert and Australian philosopher John Weckert in the 17th International Public Health Conference hosted by the American University of Sovereign Nations, a global educational institution based in Arizona, USA. The paper, with the title "John Weckert's Ethics of Technology: Social Implications in the Digital Age," will tackle a host of issues, including monitoring, surveillance, the right to privacy and the role of women in ICT. Ms. Pastrana is a Mass Communication graduate and formerly the Public Information Officer of the University of Southeastern Philippines. The virtual conference, which will be participated in by researchers from the US, Japan, India, Turkey, Malaysia, and Spain, among others, will be held this coming May 28 & 29, 2021.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...