From containers to luggage: how Digital DIY may also challenge shipping and travel
(to know and discuss the conclusions of our H2020 research, please participate to the DiDIY Final Conference "Digital Makers – Making a Difference?")
ethics
Introducing DIDIY D4.6: Ethical issues in Education and Research
D4.6 undertakes to identify and analyze some of the main ethical issues pertaining to DiDIY in education and research, with a view to suggesting how to positively move forward (e.g., policy-wise).
Introducing DiDIY D3.3: Ethical issues and work
Digital DIY at the Paris Open Source Summit
Wouter Tebbens and Marco Fioretti of the Free Knowledge Institute will present the Digital DIY project, its current status and some of its preliminary findings, at the Paris Open Source Summit. Exact date and time of the talk(s) will be added to this announcement as soon as possible. For background, you are welcome to read these reports:
DiDIY and ethics
- The work on ethics in Digital DIY is accessible on our central page on ethics -
Serving sick people with Digital DIY: an example from Tanzania
3D printed guns: the Imura case study from Japan
More input to our ongoing analysis of "DiDIY vs gun control" issues comes from the so-called Imura case in Japan. Quoting 3ders:
13th World Congress of Bioethics
Oral presentation by Alexandre Erler, from the ACT research team, on how some new DiDIY technologies (such as 3D bioprinting) require us to reassess the normative force of the treatment-enhancement distinction in applied ethics.
Ethics and Laws
Digital DIY makes it much easier for everybody to produce physical objects of all kinds. Such a capability brings considerable challenges to our current ethical and legal systems, and to our very idea of what is (or should be) right or wrong: what happens when virtually everybody can copy objects of design, self-produce spare parts for products she already owns, or manufacture dangerous ones?
DiDIY and product liability
As readers of this blog (and of the other content on this website) will know, the advent of DiDIY is set to have a transformative impact on society, by allowing people to create their own tailor-made artifacts, either on their own (using devices like 3D printers) or with the help of other members of the “Maker” community.
