The research group studies how professionals can design meaningful digital innovations, taking into account the needs and values of all parties involved and how professionals can develop the necessary digital and ethical skills.

Lines of research within the research group

The program line Digital Innovation for Health and Well-being (DIZOW) examines how digital innovations can be meaningfully implemented in the health and welfare sector. The healthcare sector is heavily investing in technological innovations. While these offer opportunities, they also raise new ethical questions, directly impacting both the care for and well-being of individuals. To equip healthcare professionals for the responsible development and use of innovations, DIZOW investigates the skills necessary for ethical digital innovation.

Within the program line Digital Innovation for Public Organizations (DIPO), researchers investigate how digital innovations can be meaningfully utilized in the public domain. Public organizations increasingly need to engage with new technological developments. These organizations are seeking practical tools to shape that process. DIPO develops knowledge, products, and software for public organizations so they can effectively leverage technologies to achieve policy ambitions. This involves taking into account the values of those involved by weighing them against each other and creating opportunities to better balance these values.

The program line Digital Innovation for Health and Well-being (DIZOW) examines how digital innovations can be meaningfully implemented in the health and welfare sector. The healthcare sector is heavily investing in technological innovations. While these offer opportunities, they also raise new ethical questions, directly impacting both the care for and well-being of individuals. To equip healthcare professionals for the responsible development and use of innovations, DIZOW investigates the skills necessary for ethical digital innovation.

Publications


Education

Digital Ethics contributes to digital innovation for educational purposes and the development of digital and ethical awareness of (upcoming) professionals. We are involved in the Digital Twins Lab and have strong ties with the Institutes for ICT, Engineering & Design, Media and Archimedes.

Example of a technological development Marlies van Steenbergen

“Digital services should not only be meaningful in the sense of being directly valuable to an organisation or customer, but also meaningful in an ethical sense. Ethical policy must therefore be an integral part of the organisational design.”

Marlies van Steenbergen Professor of Digital Ethics

Collaboration

Organizations are looking for ways to responsibly leverage digitalization. Domain expertise and knowledge of ethics and IT are brought together. The research group works on assignments and projects covering this; it performs research with partners; sometimes with (co) financing.

Our professors and researchers

Marlies van Steenbergen | Professor | Research group Digital Smart Services

Marlies van Steenbergen

Professor Digital Ethics Show profile
Johan Versendaal | Professor | Research group Digital Smart Services

Johan Versendaal

Professor Digital Ethics Show profile
Matthijs Berkhout | Researcher | Research group Digital Smart Services

Matthijs Berkhout

Researcher Digital Ethics Show profile
Theo van den Bogaart | Researcher | Research groups Digital Smart Services and Mathematics Education

Theo van den Bogaart

Researcher Digital Ethics, Mathematical and analytical competence of professionals Show profile

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