The Information Society: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy In Honor of Professor Jacques Berleur s.j.

Technology and Democracy: Views on The is.- to part I.- Democracy, Technology, and Information Societies.- Democracy, innovation, and the information society.- The Information/Knowledge society as Risk Society : Assessing and Enforcing IT safety and security standards for IT systems : about responsibility of experts and governments.- Ethics and Democracy Into The ICT.- to part II.- From the Ethics of Technology to the Ethics of Knowledge Assessment.- Deliberative democracy : from Rational Discourse to Public Debate.- ICT and Value Sensitive Design.- Governance of is: From Economic Regulation To A New Social Contract.- to part III.- Social Consequence of Information and Communication, Technologies and the European Union : Policy Links.- Economy, Industry, Innovation and Technical Democracy.- When Economics meets Ethics : the Governance of Economic Activities in the Information Society.- The Institutional Dynamics of Sharing Biological Information : Towards Reflexive Governance of the Information Society.- The Internet: New principles of political right, new social contract.- Applied issues: health, profession and education.- to part IV.- Which Major Legal Concerns in future e-Health?.- Embedding Professional Issues within University Degree Courses.- IT, Ethics and Education : Teaching the Teachers (and their Pupils).- For an ethical and democratic governance of the is: lessons from WSIS.- to part V.- Internet Governance : Some Thoughts after the two WSIS.- Governance Challenges: First Lessons from the WSIS - An Ethical and Social Perspective.- General Conclusion.- The Information Society : What Next?.