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Part I:

• Bynum, T. W. “Computer Ethics: Basic Concepts and Historical Overview”
  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-computer/
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK
  http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/index.html
• Research Center on Computing & Society, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
  http://www.computerethics.org
• Tavani, H. T. “Computing, Ethics and Social Responsibility: A Bibliography”
  http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/biblio/

Part II:

• The Association for Computing Machinery
  http://www.acm.org
• The Australian Computer Society
  http://www.acs.org.au
• The British Computer Society
  http://www1.bcs.org.uk
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
  http://www.ccsr.org
• Professional Accountability Section of the Website of the Online Ethics Center
  http://onlineethics.org/topics/accountability.html
• Professionalism Section of the Website of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
  http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/resources/professionalism

Part III:

• ACM Position Papers on Software Engineering and Licensing
  http://www.acm.org/serving/se_policy/papers.html
• Codes of Ethics links on the web site of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
  http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/resources/professionalism/codes/
• Commentary on “The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics” by N. Ben Fairweather
  http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/resources/professionalism/codes/cei_command_com.html
• The Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute at East Tennessee State University at Johnson City, TN, USA
  http://seeri.etsu.edu

Part IV:
SECURITY

• Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University, Eugene H. Spafford, Director
  http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/
• Computer Security Group, Cambridge University, UK
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/Security/
• Computer Security Institute
  http://www.gocsi.com/
• Computer Security Research Center, London School of Economics
  http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/
• The Risks Digest: Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, Moderator
  http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks

PRIVACY

• The Electronic Privacy Information Center
  http://www.epic.org
• The Information Commissioner of the United Kingdom
  http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk
• The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner, Australia
  http://www.privacy.gov.au
• Privacy International
  http://www.privacy.org/pi/
• Privacy.net
  http://www.privacy.net
• Privacy.org
  http://www.privacy.org

OWNERSHIP

• Electronic Frontier Foundation “Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright” Archive
  http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property
• Raymond, E. “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” a website on the open source movement
  http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/raymond/
• Softward Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights: A Monograph (See especially the article “A Plea for Casual Copying” by Helen Nissenbaum)
  http://www.computerethics.org/resources/research/intellectual_property/ownership_mono/ownership_contents.html
• Volkman, R. “Softward Ownership and Natural Rights”
  http://www.computerethics.org/resources/research/intellectual_property/volkman_nat-rights.html
• World Intellectual Property Organization
  http://www.wipo.org

GLOBALIZATION

• The Cyber Rights Working Group, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
  http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/
• “The Global Culture of Digital Technology and Its Ethics,” an abstract of a paper by Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska
  http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ccsrconf/ethicomp2001/abstracts/gorniak.html
• The Internet Society – an international organization for global cooperation
  http://www.isoc.org/isoc/
• UNESCO’s Info-Ethics Program, The United Nations
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/infoethics/infoethics.htm

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