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August 14, 2007

Globalization of corporate ethics

John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain, of the Berkman Center, have an article at C-NET on the ethical difficulties of doing business in tyrannical countries.

The more promising route is for one or more groups of industry members to come up with a common, voluntary code of conduct to guide the activities of individual firms in regimes that carry out online censorship and surveillance. Such a process has begun. Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, Yahoo and TeliaSonera are actively working together on a code. This process includes nongovernment organizations (NGOs)&mdashincluding Business for Social Responsibility and the Center for Democracy and Technology...

As JP and Jonathan say, "The development of a code of conduct itself solves only a small part of the problem." But it's a key part. I'm proud to say that the Berkman Center is one of the NGOs working on this project. [Tags: berkman john_palfrey jonathan_zittrain corporate_responsibility ethics google microsoft yahoo ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at August 14, 2007 12:03 PM


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Don't forget the tyranny of the corporation either.

See: ACACIA: A Corporation And Citizen Isolation Amendment

Posted by: Crosbie Fitch | August 14, 2007 12:22 PM


TeliaSonera and ethics???

ETHICS OF WHAT, CORRUPTION, SPYING COMPETITIORS?

That's we have been watching from the technogangsters during almost 10 years of 'privatization'.

TELIASONERA STOP SPREADING BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION IN LITHUANIA!

Posted by: Verslo tinklas | August 14, 2007 03:20 PM


"The development of a code of conduct itself solves only a small part of the problem" is a very true statement and the problem becomes more complex when we deal with countries like India and China where Ethics and business don't go together. At ALL.

Posted by: TechHairBall | August 17, 2007 11:45 AM


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