Pharaon: Cáritas Coimbra has a scientific paper published on Ethical Guidelines for large-scale implementation of ICT solutions
Cáritas Coimbra continues its effort to contribute to the healthy and active ageing of the European population in the 21st Century. Currently, the organisation is taking part in the Pharaon project which builds on existing tools provided by project partners (platforms and advanced technologies). These will be customized and connected (in a user-centred approach), to facilitate the provision of optimized and personalized healthcare, always ensuring dignity, autonomy and security of the end-users.
Pharaon’s integrated platforms will be validated in two stages: one for the technology pre-validation and the other for the implementation of large-scale pilots (LSP). Therefore, the project consortium developed a model to ensure compliance with ethical, security and privacy procedures for each one of the pilots: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal, Holland, Slovenia and Italy. Caritas Coimbra leads the Ethics tasks that introduced “The iterative model of ethical analysis for large-scale implementation of ICT solutions” and address ethical compliance, legal supervision & management.
This iterative model of ethical analysis builds on project expertise and includes an understanding of the main ethical challenges and the development of the necessary guidelines, measures, and tools for different stakeholder profiles. It extends beyond conventional ethical guidelines, providing a methodology to actively discuss ethical and societal challenges within a project based on interactive and iterative dialogue between the entire value-chain of stakeholders.
It includes targeted reflections and tools delivered in the context of the recent Covid-19 pandemic, as the model focusses on policy and societal issues that may emerge during a project. The tools developed in this process are organised in a guide that can be used in other large-scale implementation projects related to Information and communications technology (ICT).
To share these research results, Caritas Coimbra conducted the scientific paper “The iterative model of ethical analysis for large-scale implementation of ICT solutions” which was just published in Translational Medicine @ UniSa, the official journal of the Medical School of the University of Salerno. You can read the scientific paper here: https://tmj.unisa.it/journal/vol23/iss4/23/
Caritas Coimbra is leading the upcoming Portuguese pilot together with Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Amadora (with the participation of University of Coimbra – UC Mare, the University of Beira Interior and Glintt) and is co-leading the communication and dissemination activities with AGE Platform.
The funding for this project is provided by EU Horizon 2020, Grant agreement no. 857188. Read more at: https://www.pharaon.eu/
