Center for Ethics of Science and Technology

About the CEST

The Center for Ethics of Science and Technology is a research unit based at the Faculty of Arts and supported by Chulalongkorn University. It functions as a virtual center where faculty from various academic disciplines meet and work together. [more]

Events and Activities

The International Workshop on Nanoethics in Asia (NEW2009) 26 August, 2009 at Room 707, Boromratchakumari Bldg., Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.

People

The Center consists of a number of faculty members who are affiliated. They hail from a variety of disciplines... [more]

NEWS!!

Public Forum on Meaningful Broadband, November 26, 2009, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.

The tentative progarm of the Nanoethics Asia conference has been added.

New website of the Information Ethics Research Group has been set up (August 27, 2008).

The podcast of the Center and of the Thousand Stars Buddhism and Science Group has been updated with audio files from a recent talk on the ethical implications of compulsory licensing of medicines at Khon Kaen University, April 24, 2008.

The final report of the project on "The Role of Universities in Information Technology for Development in Asia," funded by the IDRC ,is now available online.

Fore more news and activities, please look at the CEST Blog and CEST Newsfeed (see links above).

Projects

The Center engages in many research projects related to ethics of science and technology as well as other related areas such as science in society, technology and culture, and so on. For the ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project, please follow this link... [more]

News and Publications

Presentation file on "Ethical Issues in Privacy and Data Protection in Asia", presented at the First Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Ethical Dimensions of Information Society, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 12-14, 2008.

All the papers presented at the International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002) can be downloaded here.

Contact

Location and contact persons of the Center...[more]