Projects
OCH - Optimizing Legal and Ethical Use of Technologies for Cybersecurity & Health Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ethical, legal and social aspects and implications of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (ELSAIDTCGT). KU Leuven
Law and legal scholars at the time of New Genomic Technologies. University of Antwerp
Ethical aspects of doping and anti-doping: in search of an alternative policy KU Leuven
The use of certain technologies, especially of specific pharmacological means, with the aim of improving performance, is forbidden in competitive sport. This practice, called doping, is repressed by increasingly strong anti-doping measures, which are overseen by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Even if these anti-doping developments essentially concern elite competitive sport, they influence society in general. Some agents present doping ...
Digitising the indigenous and indigenising the digital: Using new technologies to create ethically-minded paths for circulation of traditional dances.. Ghent University
The aim of this research project is to contribute to the decolonizing imperative to explore, understand and critique the possibilities that new digital technologies convey for the safeguarding of indigenous intangible cultural heritage (ICH) practices with a special accent on dance. Misappropriation, disrespectful uses, and lack of attribution of their artistic practices are troubles that traditional peoples keep facing, even more intensely ...
Genetics in everyday life. A qualitative study of individuals at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (BRCA) and Huntington’s disease (HD) about fears of genetic discrimination KU Leuven
For decades, as our understanding of human genetics has continued to advance, socio-ethical and legal scholars have raised questions and concerns about the ethical and social implications (ELSI issues) of genetics. One specific ELSI concern is that increased knowledge and applications of human genetics might lead to new forms of negative treatment, discrimination, and stigmatisation. In the nineties, several Western countries responded to ...
Scaling Up secure Processing, Anonymization and generation of Health Data for EU cross border collaborative research and Innovation KU Leuven
The overall goal of the SECURED project is to scale up multiparty computation, data anonymization and synthetic data generation, by increasing efficiency and improving security, with a focus on private and unbiased artificial intelligence and data analytics, health-related data and data hubs, and cross-border cooperation. The project will address the limitations that are currently preventing the widespread use of secure multiparty computation ...
Next generation DNA sequencing. Socio-ethical analysis of standardization in decision and communication patterns of test results KU Leuven
Establishment of a Knowledge Center for Data and Society Ghent University
The potentially disruptive nature of developments in AI also requires a center in Flanders
brings together the main components of the above-mentioned international initiatives:
1. A widely supported co-design approach for the development of AI policy;
2. Stimulating social debate about acceptance of the technology;
3. Providing thought leadership about both ...