Digital Ethics Forum 2024

For a sustainable digital world.
Impacts of new technologies. Regulations, projects, and collective initiatives.

Turin, Rome
Online and in-person
November 6 – 7 – 8

Sloweb, a pioneer in digital ethics, is pleased to announce the dates and details for the 2024 Digital Ethics Forum (DEF), the sixth edition organized in collaboration with CSI, Digital Campus, Senior CSI, Frontiere, and Piano D. As always, the Digital Ethics Forum is aimed at civil society and seeks to inform and educate, without including academic discussions or self-referential conversations.

The first day will be held on Wednesday, November 6 at CTE Next – CSI in Turin from 2:30 PM to 6:00 PM; the second will be held online on Thursday, November 7, and will be conducted in English with international speakers from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM. The third will take place on Friday, November 8 at Frontiere in Rome from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM, featuring participation from Walter Quattrociocchi and Brando Benifei.

Streaming participation is available via Zoom. The links to access the live streams will be provided upon registration through the Eventbrite platform.

This year, DEF will feature a special event: on Friday, November 8, at 9:30 AM in Rome, at Via Piemonte 39A, the Observatory for Responsible Digital Consumption  – (www.ocdr.it) will be presented. This is an innovative project launched by Movimento Consumatori APS in collaboration with Sloweb, where various Italian organizations committed to responsible and sustainable digital consumption will come together.

The 2024 DEF program (available here) addresses the most current topics:

• The impact of technologies on all of us, starting with smartphones; what we need to know and what we need to do about it; experiences of ethical use in schools and on alternative discussion platforms;
• Epidemiological aspects of the impact, care experiences, processes, and new approaches for digital wellbeing in companies;
• Companies: research, projects, investments, and experiences of sustainable technology use, from device purchasing to web content creation to digital responsibility policies;
• The delicate balance between information, politics, and digital technologies – just hours after the results of the U.S. elections on November 5. The EU’s direction and the prospects outlined by new regulations;
• Concrete responses – projects, initiatives, information – generated by movements of citizens, teachers, and managers who educate themselves, raise awareness, and self-organize to counter the misuse of digital technologies, aligning with Sloweb’s mission to fight against the misuse of technologies, which are themselves wonderful.

Even the DEF website is designed to reduce energy consumption, proving how it’s possible to effectively advocate for a more sustainable and truly eco-friendly web.

“With the sixth edition of the DEF, we are increasingly focused on initiatives and information necessary to reduce the negative impact of digital technologies on the environment and society, and to improve their positive impact through sustainable use, which, even in Italy, is being learned and starting to be practiced in many places”. – Franco Marra, one of the founders of the Sloweb Association in 2017.