We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers and scholars, interested in information and computer ethics (ICE) and, more generally, in the ethical implications of information and and communication technologies (ICTs).

NICE's primary aim is to to foster research in ICE and facilitate interactions between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, especially in developing countries where ICTs are quickly becoming a key-player in social and economic transformations.

We believe that ICTs can help humanity to improve its predicament in ways that are environmentally sustainable. And we regard ICE issues as pressing problems that need to be addressed with some urgency.

We consider philosophy and science in general as joint, if different, enterprises dealing with the same business of seeking to know and understand reality and human life.

Members of the group belong to several universities from all over the world. Their researches cover a very wide selection of topics, which are listed under their profiles.

NICE is part of a wider group of researchers that includes the IEG (the interdepartmental Information Ethics research Group) in Oxford and the GPI (research Group in Philosophy of Information) at the University of Hertfordshire. The three groups issue a single Newsletter.

NICE is open to new contributions and ideas. If you wish to know more about our activities you may subscribe to the mailing list (which is fully moderated and low traffic) and thus receive our Newsletter.

If you are actively doing research in an area that substantially involves ICE topics or are just interested in ICE, we would be delighted to hear from you and about your work, so we hope you will get in touch by sending an email to Luciano Floridi.