Computers and Society Ethics Code Review Page 14 June 1994 A Scandinavian View on the ACM's Code of Ethics Bo Dahlbom University of Goteborg, Sweden dahlbom(d~adb, gu. se Lars Mathiassen University of Aalborg, Denmark larsm@iesd, auc. dk 1. Context year, this proposal-with only minor modificationswas adopted by ACM's executive council as ACM's new official code. We invite you to examine these codes carefully and reflect upon the role of codes of ethics in professionalizing our field. A number of books on ethics for computer professionals have recently been published, indicating a growing awareness for and interest in this issue. In the references, we have listed the key literature. Bergin (1991) contains a useful review and comparison of a number of these books: Johnson (1985), Johnson & Snapper (1985), Erman, Williams & Gutierrez (1990), Deloie, Fowler & Paradice (1991), Parker, Swope & Baker (1990) and Forester & Morrison (1990). 2. Ethics and Professional Conduct In the systems development community in Scandinavia, we pride ourselves of having acquired an understanding of the dialectics between computer technology and people, their organizations and their work, going well beyond a software engineering perspective. We have developed, we believe, a special approach to the
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