D2.1 Methodology for ethical analysis, scan results of existing ethical codes and guidelines

This report presents a review of three approaches to ethical analysis, ATE, eTA and Future
Studies; these are ethical frameworks which were used across several projects on the ethics of
new and emerging technologies (eg. ETICA, SHERPA, SIENNA, PANELFIT, REELER) and begins
to identify the framework, which will address the three levels of ethical technology analysis (as
discussed in ATE), which will be further developed in the following tasks of WP2.
• It also presents the results of a scan of existing ethical guidelines and frameworks on new and
emerging technologies and their socio-economic impacts carried out as part of the TechEthos
project.
• The scan of ethical documents identifies ethical issues associated with our selected socioeconomic
impact technologies. The ethical dimensions are expected to provide scope for
development and critical reflection of technologies that we anticipate will be developed and
deployed in Europe and worldwide in the next five to twenty years. The scan will be used to
ensure that the ethics framework and guidelines developed by TechEthos will be relevant and
applicable for a wide range of new and emerging technologies.
• The methodology for the ethical analysis will be broken down into different phases and focus
on: (1) ethical codes, (2) ethical frameworks, (3) ethical guidelines. These will be identified and
analysed for each of the technology families.