Value-Based Engineering / De Gruyter Textbook (ePub)

Univ. Prof. Dr. Sarah Spiekermann
Chair of the Institute for IS & Society



Since 2009 Sarah Spiekermann is chairing the Institute for Information Systems & Society at Vienna
University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). She is a well-regarded scientist, author, speaker
and advisor on digital ethics. She published several books in the domain, including "Digital Ethics - A
Value System for the 21st Century" (Droemer, 2019), "Ethical IT Innovation: A Value-based System
Design Approach" (Taylor & Francis, 2015), as well as "Networks of Control" (Facultas, 20116). In
2016 Sarah has founded the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Vienna (renamed
'Sustainability Lab" in 2020). In the same year she also started to vice-chair IEEE's 7000
standardization project to build the world's first model process for ethical system design that was
released to the public in September 2021.
To date Sarah has published over 100 scientific articles on the social and ethical implications of
computer systems and given more than 200 presentations and talks about her work around the world.
She has co-authored US/EU privacy regulation and supported works as an expert and advisor to
companies and governmental institutions, including the EU Commission and the OECD. Sarah also
maintains a blog on "The Ethical Machine" at Austria's leading daily newspaper Standard.at and blogs
for Germany's Handelsblatt. She is on the scientific advisory board of the Forum Alpbach and a
member of the Science and Ethics for Happiness and Well-being Project of the Pontifical Academies
of Sciences and Social Sciences, in partnership with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions
Network (SDSN).
Before being tenured in Vienna in 2009, Sarah was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information
Systems at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany), where she headed the Berlin Research Centre on
Internet Economics (2003-2009), was Adjunct Visiting Research Professor with the Heinz